Events
Upcoming events
- Parents & Tots Playgroup(Communidée Event)(12 hours)
- Yoga(Communidée Event)(13 hours)
- Public Speaking(Communidée Event)(16 hours)
- Book Club(Communidée Event)(2 days)
- Double Digits(Communidée Event)(2 days)
- Karate at the Dojo Studio(Communidée Event)(2 days)
Bus Passes
Has anyone actually approached the STM and asked how to go about getting ID for homeschooled students? Who knows, they may never have thought about it & they may be quite flexible.
Failing that, maybe we should start thinking about banding together to lobby for the STM to extend the same privileges to homeschoolers that they offer to kids attending public or private schools.
By law, any child under 16 must be receiving some form of education & by law, homeschooling is a legal alternative to public or private school. So shouldn't a proof of residence & proof of age be sufficient for the fare reduction under the age of 16? (Over 16 we'd need to show some kind of proof of studies; it would have to be worked out somehow, but maybe just signing an affadavit that states the youth is a home scholar...?)
Refusing to extend the "student" fare reduction to homeschoolers would be discriminatory, and tantamount to saying we are breaking the law.
Students as far back as the 80's (and I think maybe the 70's) were fighting for an extension of the student status to those who attend CEGEP & university. After many years of lobbying, students today benefit from the fare reduction until the age of 25 - long enough for some to earn a Master's degree!
Just some thoughts.....
stm
well, I'll give it a try :)
STM
Has anybody gotten any results?
I've tried approaching them, but they are a pretty narrow-minded bureaucracy, and they didn't seem ready to do anything. Just the fact that my school was located in the USA was enough for them to say "no, we can't do that".
So now, a bloody bus ticket costs two friggin dollars. This is so unfair, I wish I could sue them for discrimination lol.