"Dave Smith" wrote in message ...

On 2014-09-07 12:50 PM, sf wrote:

> Worse than that, the parent who does give their child a bike to ride
> to school is pitied as being "too poor" to afford a car by judgmental
> people who don't know anything about their situation other than the
> child rides a bike to school every day.


When I was a kid most of us rode our bikes to school if the weather was
decent. In high school it was not cool to ride a bike. We walked or
took the bus, which we had to pay for.

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We took the school bus to high school (45 minute ride each way for me), but
we did not pay for it. Our taxes did that, and I do think requiring some
families to pay for transportation would act as a *disincentive* to attend
school.

MaryL