"I'LL BE WATCHING YOU" police
Lately I have had the opportunity to take my granddaughter to school in the morning. Now I remember taking my children to school and also at times me being taken to school. {long ago}
My question concerns the high amount of parents that feel they must drive up to precisely in front of the main doors before letting their children out of the car. Good weather or bad. O.K. I can't understand not wanting to make Jr. walk an extra twenty feet but why is it necessary for them to sit and watch them enter the building. Am I not aware of some mysterious Bermuda Triangle that is situated in front of these school buildings.
I have also watched little children in small groups or even alone walking to school. Am I to believe these children's parents are neglect in raising there children? Will these children grow up and be more or less self reliant? My question seems to be are we coddling our children to much and that in the future they might lack some self confidence?
Yes I understand we are living in a different time but maybe some of us might have taken this to far?When in my time the rule was "you had better be in the yard when the steetlights go on". Now we all seem to live in some fear? Is it because because we turn on the news and somewhere a child has been abducted? I guess this all makes sense except that walk from the car to the front door of the school.
What do you think?
posted by terminator1 @ 6:19 AM
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I think of that when I see parents sitting in their car, engine running, waiting for a school bus. This at the end of a 200' long driveway!
Can we make kids any lazier (or fatter)? Check the crime statistics. The number of children abducted on their way to or from school is virtually zero.
Can it happen? Sure, but the chance of it happening is nil. They could be abducted when Mom or Dad drop them off at the mall but that must not matter.
Actually, this brings me to another point. As tax-payers, we are required to provide busing to, at least, state minimums. Why aren't the students REQUIRED to use those buses? After all, the buses have to drive the entire route regardless of whether they pick up students or not.
Why do so many parents get an auto for the child as soon as the child can drive? Does it show love?
I guess that I am saying that I can live with the taxes, I just don't like wasting those dollars.
What really gets me are the parents that can not read. Enter here for drop off other is for bus or staff. They come and go where ever they want regardless of signs and rules. PARENTS - YOU are what is wrong with your children today.
My neighbors three year old wears a helmet riding his big wheel?
Since this seems to be a quiet section of the blog now, I wonder if I can ask a question about water bills here to see if Term or someone can help me figure something out.
I just got my electric/water/sewer bill. It includes 37 days of billing, instead of the average month. Does that mean for the water/sewer part or the electric part, or both?
If it's for the water/sewer part, here is my question: Everyone is charged a minimum of a "4" usage, no matter if you use less. Say if you normally use "3", or a "4", but now it's 37 days of billing, so you register "5". So now, you are charged extra for the same water, because if it had been computed every 30 (for example), you would still just owe the "4" right?
9:19 As I understand it residential homes pay the $8.00 surcharge 12 times a year $96.00. I don't believe it has anything to do with the amount of water you use in a billing cycle.
If anyone else see's it differently chime in. I thought it was a set chaharge of $8.00 a month/$96.00 per year.
Term, this is 9:19. Yes, they are supposed to charge us a base rate of a "4" usage monthly. Any usage above that, and you get charged more, because it throws you into a "5" or more. Now, if instead of charging you that 8.00 ("4")amount at the 30 day mark, but instead measure your usage at the 37 day amount, you may have now gone up to a "5", or if you were at a "5" to begin with, you may now be at "6". See? And you will be paying more for the same amount of water usage. If they would have stayed at 30 day intervals, then you probably would have stayed at a "4", for example. At the beginning of the next month, or period of time, you reset to the "4" minimum usage charge, so I think they may be getting away with charging a lot more for water and sewer than they should when they streth the time intervals over 30 days.
3:14 I now understand. The city instead of charging you for water usage for 30 days they have added 7 days that throws you usage to a
"5". I will look into this.
Best guess the city will tell me there are times smaller than "30" days. Has anyone ever received a
"23" day billing cycle?
Term, this is 3:14. Thanks, I would appreciate any sleuthing you can do on this. It seems to me if they had a smaller billing cycle, using your example of a 23 day billing cycle, that would not help, would it? You would still have the base of a "4" to pay, and wouldn't the extra days that would come about for the next "billing cycle" throw your usage up as we talked about earlier with a 37 day cycle?
I have inquired about this over the years with the city, and I have always gotten a runaround with no answer that I was satisfied with, so am hoping you can shed some light on this, and will be able to cut through the you-know-what and come up with an answer.
John Murphy has been looking into how the city does it's billing on utilities. Runaroud yes that's the normal way of doing businees in Painesville. As if we had a choice.
Painesville's created "revenue enhancement" at it's best.
Term, this is 5:31. Yes, "revenue enhancement." They keep losing us millions and millions on bad deals, then have to cheat us in any way they can to try to hide the fact that we have to pay the millions and millions that they lost us.
Glad to hear that Murphy is looking into how they bill for utilities. I will watch for it to be posted here. Thanks.
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