{"id":203,"date":"2002-07-16T07:02:23","date_gmt":"2002-07-16T07:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=203"},"modified":"2002-07-16T07:02:23","modified_gmt":"2002-07-16T07:02:23","slug":"heres-a-new-motto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=203","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s a new motto:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a new motto: Homeschool- It&#8217;s cheaper than riding the bus!  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/mld\/kansascity\/news\/local\/3670373.htm\">This article<\/a> is about a school district&#8217;s bus woes.  The HS conncection?  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There may be an alternative. Under Missouri law, districts may bus ineligible students if a parent or guardian pays the district&#8217;s transportation cost. Last year, the cost of hauling a student was $385.  Phillips [a parent of one of the affected kids] said she would be willing to pay, if her finances allow.  &#8220;It may put me in a situation where I have to home school,&#8221; she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>HS for less than $385\/year??  I know some HSers can HS on a shoestring.  We haven&#8217;t managed that yet.  It&#8217;s my fault entirely.  Before we HSed, our kids were in a fairly pricey private school.  When my lovely wife decided to HS, I uttered those fateful words: &#8220;Unlimited Budget&#8221;.  <i>Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea MAXIMA culpa<\/i>.  Actually, she&#8217;s really quite frugal and purchases only what she feels she needs.  It&#8217;s still much cheaper and, of course, a much better education, than their old school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a new motto: Homeschool- It&#8217;s cheaper than riding the bus! This article is about a school district&#8217;s bus woes. The HS conncection? There may be an alternative. Under Missouri law, districts may bus ineligible students if a parent or guardian pays the district&#8217;s transportation cost. Last year, the cost of hauling a student was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}