To Stay, Sign the Petition

Dear Parents,

If you do not want your child moved out of his/her school, you may want to sign this online petition, http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/pinellaschoice/ as I did. I think it is a good deal. The petition states that we want to stay at our school (be grandfathered) in exchange for not needing the bus.

This “grandfather us for no bus” petition is a good compromise. The problem is that busing is expensive, dangerous, and disrupts learning time with the lateness problems. These are genuine problems. The school board figures there would be less overall bussing (and fewer bussing problems) if kids were local. This seems valid: If you want a bus, move schools to the local assigned school they give you. Perhaps this compromise will allow us to keep our children in their schools.

Please feel free to pass this on to all parents and friends of children in Pinellas County Schools.


PS- Take the Bay News 9 poll http://www.baynews9.com/iPolls.html on the “Would you drive for the school you want?” question.