[Durham INC] example palming off costs on the public

[Christine Chamberlain]

Pat, normally I agree with your position on topics sent to the list.  However, being the mother of a middle school-aged child, as well as the founder of the first charter school in NC, I'd like to point out a flaw in your gripe below.  Since when are parents entitled to babysitters and carpools?  Is it the government's job to babysit children?  I resent the idea that my tax dollars should pay for babysitting and carpooling someone else's kid!.  My first thought was "where are the parents?"



You are right, this IS an example of palming off costs to the public.  It's the PARENTS who are palming off their responsibility, not Kestrel Heights.  

 
Christine Chamberlain
Founder, Healthy Start Academy


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From: Pat Carstensen <pats1717 at hotmail.com>
To: inc listserv <inc-list at durhaminc.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 8, 2011 7:44 AM
Subject: [Durham INC] example palming off costs on the public


 
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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