I've heard School board veteran Gregg Meyers was a civil rights attorney, back in the day. I guess he had a change of ways. While, Mr. Meyers has no problem stuffing Fraser children into the Archer building in August, he can't stomach the idea of saving nearly $3 million by eliminating transportation to Charleston County magnet schools.
I also heard Mr. Meyers used to have a bus stop in front of his house on Sullivan's Island when his child went to Buist Academy. Surely, this bus stop was not necessary. I guess he feels his Mt. Pleasant constituents deserve the same luxuries he awarded himself. Too bad he doesn't think the Fraser children deserve to wait until August 2010 until they have to move from their neighborhood school.
There should be no bus transporting a child from his excellent rated neighborhood school to Buist Academy, plain and simple. A Mt. Pleasant parent wrote a letter to the editor the other day pleading for magnet school transportation to continue (especially to Buist Academy) for the children from McClellanville. That seems like a pretty reasonable request if that child would not be granted a similar education at his neighborhood school. Yet according to my sources, that kid doesn't exist. Who are the children from McClellanville to whom he makes reference? There are a couple of kids from Awendaw. And there are half a dozen kids from Adams Run, Ravenel, and Hollywood who attend Buist Academy. Maybe he got his McClellanville kid confused with those kids. Or maybe he's just another Mt. Pleasant parent who likes that bus transportation for his own kid who, according to MapQuest, barely lives five miles from the school.
In this budget crisis, if magnet school transportation is provided at all it should be set up the same way transportation is mandated under No Child Left Behind federal legislation, plain and simple. Otherwise, Mr. Meyers, we're going to continue to question your motives.
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You want more "diversity" at Buist? How are those kids, whose parents might not be able to drive downtown everyday, going send their kids to school?
No magnet buses are going to hurt those who don't have much... the parents you're talking about will get their kids to school no matter what (with lots of complaining along the way)
PS. I'm not surprised the ONLY example you use is Buist
In some states, parents have to pay for school bus transportation. No, I don't mean to magnet schools - I mean for bus transportation to any school. Google "school bus transportation + fees" and you'll see what I mean.
At the very least, free bus transportation to magnet schools should be limited to children who qualify for free/reduced lunch. Parents who can afford it should have to pay for that bus service.
That first guy is missing the point. There's plenty of diversity within walking distance of Buist. Put the millions towards improving schools so we have more Buist!
Mentioning Buist is the only way to get blogger s riled up. I don;t see any questions raised about all the children being picked up for Academic Magnet or School of the Arts.
Anonymous 6:39... I'm not missing the point. The blog was about busing not about making more Buists... which I have repeatedly said in past blogs that is exactly what we need
But since Underdog always has to bring Buist into it and there was a recent article in the P&C about diversity AND bus service for magnet schools, I just brought both into my comment
Bottom line is... those who will be hurt by no bus service are those who will make the schools "diverse"
I was on the Ravenel bridge on my way to Mt. Pleasant the other day and saw a CCSD bus with a handful of white kids on it. I couldn't help but think of this post and wonder where those kids were coming from.
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