Submitted by Dorothy Wachsstock, Jul 1, 2007 10:08

Busing kept working parents away from the schools their children are bused.

With this law, if it is actually followed, working parents can go to their neighborhood school for all events. This will give children an opportunity to show how well they can do in school to make their parents proud. If they are not doing well, it gives working parents a chance to get to know the teachers and they can communicate what is lacking in their children's work.

Best to put money into making neighborhood schools better than to pay drivers and buses to take children miles away and pay for that expense.

Tired of hearing that inner city schools get no support. Go to Floyd Flakes schools and see all the equipment in their supply rooms in St. Albans, Queens, N.Y. Go to Little Neck, Queens and see empty supply rooms. Parents supply that room with their own money. Got all this information from a teacher who worked in Jamaica for 15 years and had the last 5 years before his retirement, in Little Neck, Queens.

Principals who want more federal money make all children take free lunches that get tossed out to the garbage (at least give it to the homeless) since the wealthier ones do not eat them but all children are required to sign up for them so poorer kids do not feel offended. Crazy? It is the truth though and everyone in the education system is aware of this spending of money needlessly.

Time the myth that the schools in the suburbs get the best education. Neighborhood schools always did well but that was not good enough for the liberals that insisted busing was the answer to drop outs.

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