Waving Goodbye to the Bus

I have no problem with this so long as there are crossing guards at major intersections and there are actually sidewalks for the kids to use. Those communities that force childrent to walk in the street, esp next to busy roadways should still have to be provided busing. Both my older boys ride their bikes to school and there are sidewalks. In our area, you have to be over 2 miles before they will ieven consider busing.

As a parent in the Capistrano Unified School district in San Clemente, CA, our kids live 4 miles from school and last year, we paid $840 for use of the school bus. Now, the buses only pick up the the Mexican immigrant kids to make sure that they get to school because these parents won't make sure that their kids get to school. So the same bus that picks up these kids actually passes by our old bus stop but not to pick up our kids. These kids also get free breakfast, lunch and tutoring. How fair is this?