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You could see by a simple search of the register of deeds. They could have done an option also that may or may not have been recorded.

Are you sure the property hasn't already been purchased????

OCM, you have provided me with some food for thought here. It would seem that a tax paying parent should expect to be able to put his kids on a school bus and have them safely delivered to school and returned each day without them being subjected to bullying, drugs, sexual assaults and the like. It further would seem that if the school system failed to provide that safe transportation, there would probably be some high powered lawyers in some big city far from Ashe County that could most likely get some major league money settlement from the School System. Having said that, since we are the School System, shouldn't we or at least all the people with school aged kids, be loudly clamoring for safe and secure transportation? Doesn't seem unreasonable to me. Especially after all the noise about hiring the school security Barneys

According to North Carolina law, there is no requirement for a school district to provide bus transportation for schools.

However, according to Derek Graham, section chief for school transportation services for the N.C. State Board of Education, all 115 public school districts in North Carolina have opted in to provide transportation.

When public schools opt in, they have to provide transportation for all students who live 1.5 miles or more from school, he said, and they must provide a bus stop within one mile of all students living in that area.

The rules and conduct on buses varies from district to district, and routes are created by the superintendent to maximize the number of students the routes can serve and minimize costs.

So why not just opt out and let them get there the best way they can.....

If what you say is true about the goings -on on the busses (and I have no reason to doubt it), then each bus needs a monitor. A real live human adult monitor. And also video cameras in the buses. A swift, serious consequences for the perps. There is no reason that anything like that should be tolerated. The driver has enough responsibilities as it is. That reason for pick up and delivery by POV should be eliminated from the equation. As for your other reasons, I don't think I can argue any of them, although I do feel personally that it is a big waste for the parent to do it. If the ridership warrants more buses, then more buses it is.

Secret agent, many parents don't want their children on the busses since they are nests of bullying, sex, and various drugs. The busses also waste the time of students whose parents can pick them up. Why would you subject a child to a two-hour bus ride if his parents, grandparents, etc., can get him home in 20 minutes?

The current bus numbers are predicated on just about half of the kids in the county who are eligible, to ride a bus. You want to double the number of busses?

Secret you do have some good points from a security stand point, but I have to agree with wtf, it's a idea that will never float or become reality...

It's still a stupid idea.

Oh man a Wendy's, darn I was hoping for a Golden Corral in Bina!!!

Lets try this. The fee would serve to discourage people from bringing their kids to school in POVs. They would also serve to help make the parents accountable for the behavior of their kids while on the uses. There I no need for people to drive their kids to and from school when the school system provides vehicles to do so. It wasn't very long ago that everyone was up in arms about school security problems. School buses are easy to identify. Throngs of civilian cars in and out everyday aren't. From security standpoint, they should not be allowed on school grounds during school occupancy hours. And, back to the original theme, schools should be built where the most people live. Would you open a new Wendy's out in Husk?

Yeah I can't see anyone paying a fee to be able to drop off or pick up their kid...

Actually I think the agent makes a lot of sense with that idea.

Parents should be required to pay a $300.00 fee, per semester, per child, to be allowed to deliver them and/or pick them up to/from the school. These little coddled alleged leaders of our future should ride the bus that we supply for them. And, they need to be civilized while they are being transported. If they can't behave, then they can't ride the bus. Then, mom and/or dad would have to pay for a POV Transportation permit for the semester while the little monster gets remedial training. Case closed.

Paying a fee? That's the stupidest thing I've ever read. People have a choice to do as they choose. Case closed.

Parents should be required to pay a $300.00 fee, per semester, per child, to be allowed to deliver them and/or pick them up to/from the school. These little coddled alleged leaders of our future should ride the bus that we supply for them. And, they need to be civilized while they are being transported. If they can't behave, then they can't ride the bus. Then, mom and/or dad would have to pay for a POV Transportation permit for the semester while the little monster gets remedial training. Case closed.

Go by one of the elementary schools (blanch can attest to this in her role) at pick up time and tell me where a school bus is needed to begin with. Looks like a line at a free peep show.

Average, another consideration is where do the parents work and how to the parents handle the transportation and pickup of their kids?

I would think for grade 6-8 most parents would want their kids near the High School for pickup and transportation purposes since the High School is near where most folks in the County actually work. Given the horrors with snow days and early dismissals it seems to me a location near the employment center is helpful.

For the kids at the corners of the county, there is nothing than can be done for them besides express bussing. In the Western US some get a tax break when they are considered to be outside the "urban service" area, but that's never been attempted here in NC. Here we try to address the discreperency based on property valuations.

Replace the corn cobs with the latest edition of the Jefferson Post and we've got a winner!

One or two rooms bear? And of course an out house with corn cobs.

Honestly, who would make a decision for everyone based on a few people that make the choice to live on the county lines in any direction? Competent people make competent decisions based on the greater need and that which will impact the largest number of citizens in the most positive of ways. Wait, I am in Ashe County. Forget the logic and build the school over in Creston.

They do in Alleghany.