Save Our School Buses

Here are just some of the reason NOT to eliminate bus services to Canyon Vista Middle School from The Mountain, The Enclave, and Spicewood Estates.

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[rogernooner]

the buses from the Mountain are full now. 50 students per bus. take away 6 buses, makes 300 students find another way to school. It's a safety issue / traffic congestion issue. the road are not build for 300 kids walking to school. car pooling will still add as many as 100+ car boddle necking thru CVMS parking lot. Plus they are only saving aprox $350K. It's not worth the childrens safety.

[needabus2]

I live up from CVMS towards 183. My kids walk today on the same busy Spicewood Springs Rd the Mountain is complaining about but it's busier at our end. Our houses are small but we work hard for what little we have. Our kids safety is just as important to us but when we asked for buses we were told no. It's not fair that only the Mountain gets buses. It should be equal for all. Either everyone whose kids have to walk on Spicewood Springs Rd should get buses or no one should get buses.

[kolicsb]

That's a good point!

[Krauser012345]

Wait, I know that kid, Camo backpack, red jacket, orange hair....DId he flunk?

[cv2011]

ROFL :-) You better take another look at which demographics elected the board and where they are spending you $10,000 in taxes.  I can assure you it's not over here.

[donnamilhaz]

Good Try. School boards take pragmatic decision based on concern and safety of kids and also factor in from where their main source of revenue comes from - from neighborhoods who pay $10,000 as taxes. From "this side" y dont you post your address - very obvious you are not. Sorry not convincing . It's not a few loud parents, all of us were there during McNeil and Wetwood hearings. You were probably hiding and the lone person. Unfortunate ones' like you plot against school boards' own interest.

[cv2011]

Not everyone on "this side" is like this. We may pay more taxes but we do not expect special services in exchange for it. Some of us believe our money should stay in the classrooms where to benefit all kids equally. Unfortunately a few loud parents expect society and the government to take care of their kids. They use their taxes to rationalize their "needs" and will talk weak school boards into giving in, diverting scarce money from education to transportation.

[donnamilhaz]

I did not say NO to your request for buses. My attitude is not that of a sour loser like you - Just coz your area did not get it should not mean, we on the hill should not be getting it. Why did you not organize and come up and speak for it?.

BTW around here on this side the average TAX we pay is about $11,500+, whereas there are others who pay nothing or merely 1000 to 2000. So we in effect subsidize a lot of other people. That is one thing to bear in mind.

[cv2011]

What a sexist remark, "cowering under your skits". And BTW, GALL was the previous superintendent. He's not there any more in case you haven't noticed.

[cv2011]

Do you ride a bus to work?

[cv2011]

Exactly which facts are not straight?

[cv2011]

Good grief.  You'd think the hil was Mt. Everest :-)

[dkozack]

Who are you and how do you know he won't. I challenge the board and cv2011 to walk daily for a week UP and DOWN with 25 lbs and also show that you can do a day worth of school work. So till then, SHUT UP and dont make assumptions.