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**Peterli** · 11-01-2007, 10:09 PM

Ummm....

St. Paul schools spokeswoman Dayna Kennedy acknowledged Thursday that school officials handled the situation poorly, but said the reason Armstrong's children were ineligible to ride the bus was because they lived outside the school's attendance area - not because they spoke English.

The bus route was meant to serve a language academy at Phalen Lake for Hmong kids learning English, and the district's academies all have separate bus routes to keep their students together. It sounds as if the school has several independent educational facilities operating within it, and that they do not share their bus routes (which does seem stupid to me). The kids weren't kicked off for "speaking English" - they were kicked off because the bus that they were catching was reserved for a different academy within the school.

11-01-2007, 10:09 PM	#3
Peterli Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 458 Senior Member	Ummm.... St. Paul schools spokeswoman Dayna Kennedy acknowledged Thursday that school officials handled the situation poorly, but said the reason Armstrong's children were ineligible to ride the bus was because they lived outside the school's attendance area - not because they spoke English. The bus route was meant to serve a language academy at Phalen Lake for Hmong kids learning English, and the district's academies all have separate bus routes to keep their students together. It sounds as if the school has several independent educational facilities operating within it, and that they do not share their bus routes (which does seem stupid to me). The kids weren't kicked off for "speaking English" - they were kicked off because the bus that they were catching was reserved for a different academy within the school.
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