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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Why shouldn’t parents of special needs
kids have to pay if parents of “normal” kids have to pay in your scenario? Here’s
the thing . . . if I live two miles out of town, I have no problem making my
kid walk . . . unless he can’t. But I can’t afford to pay for a whole bus in
case all those parents of walking-able kids decide not to buy into the bus
program. Meaning no funds for a bus meaning no bus. That’s why all tax payers—not
just those who have kids—pay for busses, school lunches for lower-income
families, textbooks, resource rooms, and all the other things that public
schools provide. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:navy'>Jennifer L. Ingalls</span></font><font
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Donovan Arnold
[mailto:<st1:PersonName w:st="on">donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com</st1:PersonName>]
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, March 20, 2009 3:48
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> vision2020@moscow.com;
Jennifer Ingalls<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Vision2020] school
funding</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Jennifer,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>I think special needs is a different story. It is
not a matter of personal responsibility, but a matter of chance that a parent
be given an angel. Parents of children with special needs should not pay
anymore than any other parent of a non-special needs child. But I disagree
that walking a mile or two to school is child abuse. In fact, I bet the
bulging numbers of obese children would decline if they went for a walk the
days a year. Maybe we can even make it a required job duty of obese gym teachers
to escort them along the way. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>But yes, I think it is fair for parents to decide
what they think is safe and cost effective transportation for children. I
don't understand why the taxpayer has to pay $180,000 for big yellow
polluting bus to go two miles as the most cost effect means to transport
anyone anywhere. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Perhaps maybe having the parents pay for a public
bus ticket, like they do in <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place>. Or,
collectively hire a transportation company to do it, and the taxpayer splits
the cost. Or maybe, they can take the time out of their own day to drive
their own children. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>Best Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>Donovan<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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--- On <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Fri, 3/20/09, Jennifer Ingalls <i><span
style='font-style:italic'><jennifer@inlandradio.com></span></i></span></b>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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From: Jennifer Ingalls <jennifer@inlandradio.com><br>
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] school funding<br>
To: "'Donovan Arnold'" <<st1:PersonName w:st="on">donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com</st1:PersonName>>,
vision2020@moscow.com<br>
Date: Friday, March 20, 2009, 5:20 PM<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'> . . . oh, and for that matter, instead of paying for a bus,
why not just let the child walk to school? If I could get enough other
parents to say no to the bus, too, we just won’t have to buy one. Except that
one kid who is in a wheelchair . . . I guess he needs a bus. Oh well, we’ll
just let his parents worry about that, huh?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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