Speak Out 9/7/11

Unhappy

neighbor

I live in the neighborhood right by O'Neal School and I don't know what's going on this year, but this has been the craziest year for parent traffic. Why don't these crazy parents let their kids ride the school bus? It is ridiculous how many cars are there to pick up those kids. Does not any children at all ride their school buses? It is crazy. And these people have to park everywhere--up and down, blocking the road. You can't even get out of your own driveway. They walk through our yards, park on our grass -- it's just like a bunch of animals. Why don't they have different dismissal times for the different groups so they won't have such a clog of parents up there? I think that this is not a good decision on somebody's part. Thank you.

Please explain

I find it very interesting that we could not have, for our children this year in school, to have an art box any bigger than a cigar box because it just frankly won't fit in the desk. I wondered, however, how do those two boxes of sanitizing wipes, the ream of colored copy paper, the two bottles of hand sanitizer, two boxes of Kleenex -- how did all of that fit in the child desks, too? Just curious. Thank you.

Wastefulness

The Poplar Bluff School District is just a prime example of the wastefulness that we see in government today. How do they waste money? I had to follow behind a Poplar Bluff school bus the other day and how many stops they made is ridiculous. They are wasting my tax dollars on that gas instead of having a bus stop --a central bus stop ever so many blocks. Let the kids get on at the bus stop. Let the kids get off at the bus stop. Don't stop every other block to pick kids up. That's just crazy. The parents could all be down at a bus stop. They could either wait in their vehicles. They could have their kids in their vehicles and then let the kids out. On the nice days, they could be standing there with the kids. It would be a much more orderly and much more efficient system. But, no! Let's just haul these kids from here to Timbuktu and stop at every little bit. Crazy! Well, you don't see that in larger cities because they don't have the money to blow. I'll remember this the next time I'm asked for a bond issue for the school district. I believe I'll be votin' no -- I don't care what it is, but the answer will be no. Thank you.