Comparing wages to cost of living
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I don't think there's anything wrong with the school offering a service such as the bus in return for payment to cover costs.
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You have no choice but to pay for it. You either pick your child up or you pay for it.
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Is the money actually assigned to pay for what they say it is, or does it end up in a mutlifunction slush fund anyway I wonder?
The pay only one thing looks like politics to keep parents sweet and stop them refusing to pay either, frankly I think it a bloody liberty to pay for either, but then I am the "cheapest man alive"™*
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Dont be dissing the school bus service, I have a woman on the inside now, bringing home the big bucks
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I think I will be more disturbed if the Elementary School is offering the same options
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Most of those bussed are being bussed from newer neighbourhoods (where the school has yet to be built) to other schools, or from areas that don't offer the school the parents/child want (French Immersion, religious schools, etc.) to ones that do.
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That's what the world is coming to unfortunately...you can't really escape it anywhere. Needless to say when we told her if she wanted airbrushing she could pay for that element herself she went right off the idea ![ROFL](https://britishexpats.com/forum/images/smilies/rofl.gif)
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I think I will be more disturbed if the Elementary School is offering the same options
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One assumes it is known when one chooses to live in an area whether there is a school that one's child does not need to be bussed to. Therefore, the parents have either accepted that bussing will be required or have chosen to send their little one to a different school which will require a trip on a bus.
Also remembering that a change to high school, for example might change everything (does that mean one moves again?) Then that other complication of kids of different ages attending different schools.
It's not that simple a choice.
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I cannot understand the school boards either, govt is trying to get people onto public transport, school parking lots are jammed up with people who seem to have had their brains sucked out when it comes to driving. Anywhere around a school at the start of the day and end of day is chaos. Parents should be encouraged to use the bus and discouraged from driving their kids to school.
Still cannot see why the school board need to spend $10k on an end of year party either!
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There are no supervision fees for high school children and, with the greatest of respect, it is a simple choice. Parents are responsible for the cost of getting their children to school. Other parents should not be responsible for such costs.
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It is still their choice and they should not be subsidized by those that don't have to bus their children.
There are no supervision fees for high school children and, with the greatest of respect, it is a simple choice. Parents are responsible for the cost of getting their children to school. Other parents should not be responsible for such costs.
There are no supervision fees for high school children and, with the greatest of respect, it is a simple choice. Parents are responsible for the cost of getting their children to school. Other parents should not be responsible for such costs.
Hell, why not just go the whole hog and let those without kids at all pay lower taxes and load all the cost of schooling on those with school age kids...
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So if you move to an area with a school and a few years later the school board decides to close it. You think the parents should be responsible for bussing to the new school?
You would also penalize parents who move into newer neighborhoods because they are more affordable but don't yet have schools?
I don't think I want to live in your world, it sounds a lot like something the Wild Rose Alliance would dream up.
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