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Anonymous wrote:*I'm* the one who assumes? I don't know anything about Great Falls and certainly don't post about it. And you clearly have your own agenda, which is too stop bus transportation to AAP, because YOU don't feel it's necessary.

And speaking of "waste," I'm kind of taken aback you did this all from work (I'm off today, BTW). I hope you're not a government employee whose salary I'm paying while you post on message boards all day.

I'm floored by all the red herrings you people keep throwing up to distract from the real issue I was posting about: unnecessary busing to centers. It's telling that none of you have anything substantive to say but instead want to discuss everything but. The issue isn't what gender I am or from where I was posting. Nor is it posting on message boards "all day" - you mean like you've been doing? You also have no idea what I do for a living or even whether I'm self-employed, which I am. Not that any of that has one iota to do with the issue of wasteful busing to AAP centers and the taxpayer money that goes to pay for it.

You all seem upset that this issue has been brought up. And on the "AAP forum," no less, right where it belongs. Each and every one of you knows just how wasteful the center buses are; you just can't stand it when anyone suggests doing away with them.

Anonymous wrote:*I'm* the one who assumes? I don't know anything about Great Falls and certainly don't post about it. And you clearly have your own agenda, which is too stop bus transportation to AAP, because YOU don't feel it's necessary.

And speaking of "waste," I'm kind of taken aback you did this all from work (I'm off today, BTW). I hope you're not a government employee whose salary I'm paying while you post on message boards all day.

Anonymous wrote:I think I'm more creeped out by a man following an elementary age bus vs a women.

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Anonymous wrote:I happened to be reading the AAP board this morning, because I have a child entering the program and like to get new information. I read a post from someone who spends her time following buses for miles in order to count students who are in a program with which she has no relationship (and don't say "taxes"--I don't follow special ed buses or see if the FARMS kid eat their free lunches--sometimes you just have to realize not every dollar impacts you directly).

I have to assume this person either is supposed to be working or has *something* better to do around the house, but instead she's policing school buses--again, those allocated for a program in which her family does not take part. If this is not a waste, what is?

You would be wrong, on every count. First, I am a man, and a dad, whose child attends LLIV at the base school. No need for this child to be bused somewhere else, as the base school provides AAP - a mediocre program with which I do have a relationship. Second, as I mentioned in a separate thread (one you probably started), I was not able to pass this bus as we were on back roads throughout Great Falls and I was headed in the same direction. I knew it was the AAP bus because it started in our neighborhood and I know the one child who got on there. I wasn't "creepily stalking" anybody, just trying to get to work and stuck behind a bus for much of the way.

So really, you should stop assuming things about posters you know nothing about, in order to further your own agenda. I'm happy to spend my tax dollars on programs which benefit children with special needs. Center school AAP is not one of them.

You, sir, need to get over yourself. It's one thing to notice something and think "hmmmm" , and an entirely different thing to post it.

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Anonymous wrote:I happened to be reading the AAP board this morning, because I have a child entering the program and like to get new information. I read a post from someone who spends her time following buses for miles in order to count students who are in a program with which she has no relationship (and don't say "taxes"--I don't follow special ed buses or see if the FARMS kid eat their free lunches--sometimes you just have to realize not every dollar impacts you directly).

I have to assume this person either is supposed to be working or has *something* better to do around the house, but instead she's policing school buses--again, those allocated for a program in which her family does not take part. If this is not a waste, what is?

You would be wrong, on every count. First, I am a man, and a dad, whose child attends LLIV at the base school. No need for this child to be bused somewhere else, as the base school provides AAP - a mediocre program with which I do have a relationship. Second, as I mentioned in a separate thread (one you probably started), I was not able to pass this bus as we were on back roads throughout Great Falls and I was headed in the same direction. I knew it was the AAP bus because it started in our neighborhood and I know the one child who got on there. I wasn't "creepily stalking" anybody, just trying to get to work and stuck behind a bus for much of the way.

So really, you should stop assuming things about posters you know nothing about, in order to further your own agenda. I'm happy to spend my tax dollars on programs which benefit children with special needs. Center school AAP is not one of them.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I happened to be reading the AAP board this morning, because I have a child entering the program and like to get new information. I read a post from someone who spends her time following buses for miles in order to count students who are in a program with which she has no relationship (and don't say "taxes"--I don't follow special ed buses or see if the FARMS kid eat their free lunches--sometimes you just have to realize not every dollar impacts you directly).

I have to assume this person either is supposed to be working or has *something* better to do around the house, but instead she's policing school buses--again, those allocated for a program in which her family does not take part. If this is not a waste, what is?

You would be wrong, on every count. First, I am a man, and a dad, whose child attends LLIV at the base school. No need for this child to be bused somewhere else, as the base school provides AAP - a mediocre program with which I do have a relationship. Second, as I mentioned in a separate thread (one you probably started), I was not able to pass this bus as we were on back roads throughout Great Falls and I was headed in the same direction. I knew it was the AAP bus because it started in our neighborhood and I know the one child who got on there. I wasn't "creepily stalking" anybody, just trying to get to work and stuck behind a bus for much of the way.

So really, you should stop assuming things about posters you know nothing about, in order to further your own agenda. I'm happy to spend my tax dollars on programs which benefit children with special needs. Center school AAP is not one of them.