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In reply to the discussion: child with Fragile X takes 45 minute bus ride to school [View all]SheilaT
(23,156 posts)But too often these kinds of things get set up the way you've suggested: There is something wrong with the parents.
How about instead thinking there is something wrong with a school system that does not insure that each and every child has the education he or she deserves? I'm bothered by the implicit battleground here.
Do you think that all parents should be driving their kids to school if it's only ten minutes away? How about fifteen? How about thirty?
I respectfully suggest that this is not bashing of public schools, but a frustration at a public school system that pits one set of parents against another. That is so constrained financially that there need to be choices about who really gets an appropriate education.
I think maybe we could take money from the obscene wars and fund our schools properly.