I don’t think so.
From Indiana News Center
ALLEN COUNTY, Ind. (Indiana’s NewsCenter) – Something new for parents to look for when picking up their children at school. Officials with Fort Wayne Community Schools unveiled a new sign this morning, asking parents to turn off their car engines while waiting for their children to leave the building.
The effort is being made to improve air quality and reduce harmful emissions in and around schools. The signs have also been placed at schools in the Southwest Allen and Northwest Allen County school districts.
Sorry, if it’s 90 degrees or 30 degrees, there’s no way I would do it. How do they expect to enforce this? Give you detention?
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It’s easy to enforce, if they can convince the local city gov’t to pass a law requiring “maximum idle times”. Such things are very common all over the place for trucks, etc.
At which point if you idle longer than, say, 5 minutes, it’s a ticketable offense. And, while I can’t speak for certain with FWCS, it’s a fair bet that the schools already have uniformed officers on duty who could write a ticket for it.
FW’s city code doesn’t appear to have any such restrictions in place already, but it would seem to be trivial for them to do so.
Let me see if I understand this…..
1- A huge front loader, that gets feet to the gallon, scoops up raw ore and dumps it into a huge dump truck.
2- The huge dump truck move the ore to railroad car.
3- The huge railroad car is pulled to a smelting plant.
4- The ore is turned into alum.
5- The alum. is formed into sheets
6- The alum. is loaded onto a semi by a forklift truck
7- The semi truck then drives across several states
8- The truck is unloaded by a forklift truck.
9- The alum. is loaded into a stamping machine.
10- The machine stamps out the blanks for the sign.
11- The blanks are loaded onto a pallet.
12- The pallet is moved to paint shop area.
13- The sign is “powder painted” and sent through a heat oven.
14- The blanks are unloaded from the oven and put on a pallet.
15- The fortlift moves the pallet of “sign” painting area.
16- The “wording” is sprayed on the sign and sent through the oven to bake on
17- The finished sign is unloaded and packaged into cardboard cartons.
17- The cartons are loaded onto a semi by a forklift and shipped to a wharehouse
18- The carton is opened and a few signs are removed to fill FWCS order.
19- The signs are put into a smaller carton and loaded onto a UPS truck.
20- The UPS truck takes the signs to a UPS sorting building.
21- The UPS truck for Fort Wayne is loaded and sent to Fort Wayne sorting building.
22- At the UPS Fort Wayne sorting opertaion the carton is then loaded onto a local delivery UPS truck.
23- The UPS truck drops the carton off at FWCS wharehouse.
24- FWCS crew picks up the signs and drives to the school along with a green post that has taken nearly the same path as the sign but from some other location.
25- The sign is installed and the FWCS crew drives back to their base.
Yep, we sure saved a great deal and the air is so much cleaner…. Can I stop laughing now????
Good to see the educators are using their time and the citizens money wisely.
I wonder if the crew installing the signs kept their trucks running to operate the arrow boards to direct traffic around them?
The religion of Environmentalism has converted many unthinking citizens.
Where have all the flower children gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the flower children gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the flower children gone?
Gone to worship the environment every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?
“In the beginnings, we sprung as “flower children” upon the
winds of the Earth,
Our roots were deep in the her-story, his-story, of the past,
Our presense, our stem, our mingling, our friendship,
To the skies, to the Earth, to all relationship, full flowering,
“From a flower to the garden” (Donovan, ’67)
Environmentalism is much too long a word. I propose to change it to be “KOOKS” …an acrynym for: Krazy Over Our Klimate Situation
what are their i step score?
aren’t their buildings falling down around the students?
but atleast their air will be clean!
i think it may be time for new leadership
Well when the referendum ballot comes screaming , need more money,
count us out
your budget, start with admistrative positions that over-bloated.
Yes, let’s talk about it, may we streamline this governement bloated area first.
well, i think its good that the school is thinking about the air quality. we need people like school administrators to start taking action to make our world a healthier place to live on….or no one else will.
The schools have taken a major budget cut, but in my opinion, its better to be saving the environment, then eating unhealthy food in the cafeteria, or riding a bus over to summit just to swim for 30 minutes when we could walk.