[Durham INC] example palming off costs on the public

[Pat Carstensen]

I've been hanging out afternoons at South Regional Library and noticed clusters of teen-agers showing up every day about 3PM.  After a while, I figured out they are students at Kestrel Heights, one of our charter schools.  Apparently the Kestrel Heights business plan does not include providing transportation OR watching kids until their parents get there.  
Ideally these students would be using the internet and getting homework done, but they mostly seem to be "just chilling."  They seem nice and well-behaved, but they are middle school kids, at an ages where "chilling" can become "fooling around" and then "just being dumb."  
I resent the idea that tax-payer money is at risk for anything happening to these kids and then having parents cry "inadequate supervision."
Regards, pat 		 	   		  
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