<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>Jennifer, that is why a parent with special needs shouldn't have to pay anymore, it isn't their fault or in their control they cannot walk. Nor did the parent choose to have a child with a special need. </DIV>
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<DIV>Parents do make the specific choice to have children. They are 100% responsible for them. Not me. I don't mind helping them out. However, parents need to bare the brunt of those costs. Not the taxpayer. If parents are having children they cannot afford, they should have to pay back the taxpayer later for those costs. </DIV>
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<DIV>People today are pretty much paid to have children. I am willing to help, but I cannot afford to pay my own loans and medical bills because of huge taxes taken out of my paychecks as a single person. Married couples that make three times what I do with children get government $$$ back. What is that about? 65% of my money goes to the government and medical and I am still expected to support other people's second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, child? I am expected to feed their children? Run them around town? Buy them things? That is the parents responsibility. </DIV>
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<DIV>If a parent is asking me to spend $2500 a year on their child, I want to see that the parent is spending at least that too. I want some accountability for my dollars. If parents want the moon for their children, fine, but they should have to pay half, not make me pay for it all then call me brut for not being able to hand it all over. </DIV>
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<DIV>Donovan <BR><BR>--- On <B>Fri, 3/20/09, Jennifer Ingalls <I><jennifer@inlandradio.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">From:</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"> Donovan Arnold [mailto: donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com ] <BR><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></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">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. </SPAN></FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">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. </SPAN></FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Perhaps maybe having the parents pay for a public bus ticket, like they do in Europe . 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. </SPAN></FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Best Regards,</SPAN></FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> . . . 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></DIV></DIV>
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