Would you move your children into a school district that did not provide bus service?

[Contrary1]

If so, you can buy my home.

Idiots living on the southeast side of Indianapolis voted overwhelmingly against a referendum that would raise property taxes. They were loud and clear in their desire that the school system should operate within the existing budget.

And so, two elementary and one intermediate school will close. Art, music, and PE will be eliminated at the elementary level. 58 teachers will be pink-slipped. Some support staff, along with most of the bus drivers will lose their jobs. I'm sure a few of the drivers will be kept 'on call" to shuttle the various sports teams around. The folks out here would march on Washington if that were to be eliminated.

Traffic will be a nightmare. There are few sidewalks, and most kids don't live within walking distance anyway.

For years, this township has voted down any attempt by industry to build. At the same time, they were more than willing to let vinyl neighborhoods spring up all over the place.

That crash I heard last night was my property value hitting rock bottom.

[dkf]

1. We have never had school bus service here.

I walked, caught rides, and used the public bus til I hit college.

[damntexdem]

2. Well, we did send my son to a high school where they didn't.

Of course it was an international high school (in Mexico) set in an old hotel, where the students from the U.S. also lived -- and the town wasn't very big.

[southernyankeebelle]

3. Well don't worry when some of the children get kidnapped and raped maybe they will change their tune

I will tell you when I was a kid we didn't even have a lunch room. We walked 20 mins to school in the morning. Then walked home for lunch and walked back after lunch and at the end of the day we walked home. I a child that was a long, long walk. Oh and I Fridays we kids that were catholics had to walk down to the catholic school in the afternoon for catechism. They we went home.

[Contrary1]

4. We live in an area that still has lots of farms...

There are no public buses. The main streets have no sidewalks. The elementary school that the neighborhood kids attend is nearly 5 miles away.

Our children are grown and gone. It doesn't have much of an impact on us, other than the property value. I'm thinking that come next winter, a lot of folks will be regretting their vote.