yes...makes AOL national news and......wait for it......here come da lawsuit!


http://www.aol.com/article/201.....lnk2%26pLid%3D454220

Quoted from sanfordy2

yes...makes AOL national news and......wait for it......here come da lawsuit!


http://www.aol.com/article/201.....lnk2%26pLid%3D454220

Why yes of course, because where else will she get the money for more ink.

Quoted from Parent

I still don't see how that is three miles. The north side of Schenectady has (since the 50s) had several elementary schools within a mile and a half.

We walked from the northside to our elementary school in Mont Pleasant.  I can assure you that it was 3 miles.  I checked it out by driving the route that we walked AND, also, on Google maps.

You are also losing sight of the more important issue/question -- is a child safer walking or riding a bus to/from school.  I contend that no person in their right mind would argue that a child is safer walking than riding a bus.  Back then, the city school district didn't have buses.  We could have taken CDTA buses (although that would have certainly been pricey for 7 children) but with all the waiting at bus stops and transfers -- it took less time to walk to/from school.

we're worried about over weight kids and insist on feeding them 'canned exercise'....sad sad sad that everything is so
canned/packaged so that humans can't even tell the difference between what their bodies are telling them as compared to
what the 'experts' are telling them....

WALK.....it's safer later in life.....

humans are not cattle to be drugged and shoved around from place to place to place.....talk about a cage....

He's lying about walking. It does matter where I grew up because I know where the schools were. MC is correct about the busing, it was initiated for "busing" (eliminating a perceived imbalance) and had nothing to do with safety. It was safer and healthier walking, busing kids has created traffic hazards all over the city. The kids WERE safer, all those years they walked. They were safer, and our schools were less expensive.
It is also proven that idling buses were causing health problems for young kids, now they have to turn off the engines, but they still have to start up again, creating concentrated air pollution in school zones.
Somebody dropped the ball as far as this little girl was concerned, but it may also just be sloppy reporting. If they were expecting a new student, where is she? Sounds like a bunch of lies.
Larry Spring is trying to solve the wrong problem. He's good at that.

Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

We walked from the northside to our elementary school in Mont Pleasant.  I can assure you that it was 3 miles.  I checked it out by driving the route that we walked AND, also, on Google maps.

Excuse us all DV, but YOU are WRONG again.   In your childhood days the city school district had strictly neighborhood schools and you were NOT ALLOWED to go to a school in MP when you lived in northside.   Not even when people moved from one neighborhood to another.  I have a number of relatives who moved in mid school years and their children would be in one school and even with only two months left to go in the school. year the families were NOT allowed to keep their kids in the school in the old neighborhood.  City school district kids were MANDATED to go to the neighborhood school where they lived.

Yeah, keep trying to find various points on google maps that meet your milage criteria.

YOUR FAIRY TALES ARE GETTING BIGGER.   Is your fairy tale book getting published yet

Why on earth would anyone send their child, on foot, from the Northside to Mont Pleasant, even if it were allowed? Bellevue had bus service available to the high school, DV was probably waiting for the trolley and missed it every day.

Quoted from Madam X

Why on earth would anyone send their child, on foot, from the Northside to Mont Pleasant, even if it were allowed? Bellevue had bus service available to the high school, DV was probably waiting for the trolley and missed it every day.

That is believable  for sure.  Guess he and his family couldn't even stay in one place for very long

Quoted from Madam X

Why on earth would anyone send their child, on foot, from the Northside to Mont Pleasant, even if it were allowed? Bellevue had bus service available to the high school, DV was probably waiting for the trolley and missed it every day.

The FACT is that you don't know what you are talking about.  The FACT is that my siblings and I walked to elementary school from the the Northside of Schenectady when we lived on the northside -- which was for most of the years that I went to elementary school.  The FACT is that we did walk to high school when we lived in Bellevue.  The FACT is that the city school district did NOT provide bus service at all during those years and the only options were for parents to drive their children to/from school or the the children to walk to/from school.  Those are indisputable facts.

The only bus service available back then was CDTA - but there was no direct bus line - one had to wait for the bus that went down Nott Street to Downtown and then wait Downtown for the bus that went from Downtown to the Mont Pleasant neighborhood.  Since it took less time to walk the 3 miles than to wait and take the transfers, we chose to walk.  Furthermore, it saved our family a lot of money to walk instead of having 7 children take the CDTA bus every day to and from school.  When we lived in Bellevue, CDTA did NOT have a direct bus line from Bellevue to Mont Pleasant High School -- one had to go by bus downtown and then transfer to the bus that went into the Mont Pleasant neighborhood.  

As for you pathetic, ignorant snarky comments about waiting and missing trolleys -- I just keep in mind that some folks - like you and your nayboob friends - were not blessed with intelligence and the ability to engage to civilized conversation.

I also notice that you seem to want to ignore your previous ignorant comments that it is safer for students to walk to school than to take a bus.  That is par for the course for you and your ilk -- post a rabidly stupid comment and, then, when you are called out for your stupidity -- try to ignore or deflect the conversation.

dv SEE THINGS LIKE HE IS IN A DREAM...OR HALLUCINATING.....

LIVING IN A BASEMENT...WHAT DO U EXPECT??

Quoted from Patches

dv SEE THINGS LIKE HE IS IN A DREAM...OR HALLUCINATING.....

LIVING IN A BASEMENT...WHAT DO U EXPECT??

Is keeps claiming these so call "FACTS," notice hos he puts them in all caps, but he does not state the facts of what streets he lived on and no proof that the school district allowed students to go to other than neighborhood schools.

Just LIES, just like the big fat LIE about the 6 or 12 inches of snow in a couple hours while he was in church at Midnight Mass when they lived on Lansing St which in Mt Pleasant!  HA HA

Now he's claiming that it's fact that he walked, not that it's fact that he walked 3 miles or whatever.
I knew kids who took the buses that he claims did not exist.
It was safe for kids to walk, thousands of kids did it for decades.

Quoted from Madam X

Now he's claiming that it's fact that he walked, not that it's fact that he walked 3 miles or whatever.
I knew kids who took the buses that he claims did not exist.
It was safe for kids to walk, thousands of kids did it for decades.

How can one get his jollies telling lies.  Does he have that dull of a life that he has to make up stories and not intelligently discuss city issues?  It's obvious to all that he is telling fairy tales because he never provides any evidence to prove what he says.

No, he has to invent alter egos and come on here and argue against himself, just to get somebody to agree with him for once. He never goes anywhere except where people can't tell him to go away, so he has to bother decent people to get attention or something.
What on earth was the point of telling those lies?
It is very telling that the only person who comes on here to argue in favor of all the mismanagement and corruption is a sick liar.

Quoted from Madam X

Now he's claiming that it's fact that he walked, not that it's fact that he walked 3 miles or whatever.
I knew kids who took the buses that he claims did not exist.
It was safe for kids to walk, thousands of kids did it for decades.

It is a FACT that I walked 3 miles to and from elementary school.  

There were NO city school buses 40 years ago.  The only bus that students could take back then were the CDTA buses.