How soaring fuel prices hurt kids

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Across the nation, school districts are slashing spending on teachers, books and computers as filling up the school bus gets more expensive.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The school buses in Dubuque County, Iowa, travel 4,900 miles each day ferrying kids to and from class. That's the equivalent of driving across the entire United States and halfway back again.

The price of the diesel these buses run on has jumped 35 percent over the last year. The extra money paid to fuel the buses must come out of the local school district's general fund - money it would prefer to spend on other things.

http://money.cnn.com/2008/04/10/news/economy/schools_fuel/index.htm

[Andy823]

1. This adminstration

Has cause the problems, and they just don' care! The fall in the value of the dollar, greed by investors buying up oil, corporate welfare, and so much more, add up to the people getting the shaft while those with the money get richer!

[kestrel91316]

2. How long before they decide that school consolidation

(closing all the local "one-room schoolhouses") wasn't such a bright idea in the long run?

[madokie]

3. Americans are paying for the war in Iraq except the money goes to the oil companies

this war is costing us dearly in many ways

[The2ndWheel]

4. Damn, it's like we can't escape

Trapped in a cycle where actions have consequences. Every time we think we've finally won, something always happens.