A Windsor parent is challenging the status quo when it comes to busing to Catholic high schools across Windsor-Essex.
Don Ouellette doesn't think it's fair that kids that live in the county can get a free ride to school while students in Windsor have to pay for a pass to ride the city bus.
"I would like to see everybody just pay the same amount to get on any kind of bus in the morning to go to school," he says.
Ouellette's son will start at Holy Names Catholic High School in the fall. His daughter will go there in three years, and living in the city, he expects the cost will add up.
"Starting this fall, it is $66 a month, ten months a year, $660 a year, four years of high school," he says. "I've got two kids. It's going to cost me between $5- and $6,000 by the time my first kid starts and my second kid is done."
The Windsor Essex Catholic District School Board plans to pass along his concerns to the committee that handles busing for students at all four local school boards.
Ouellette just hopes for parity.
"Give a high school kid a yellow, blue, pink pass so it's only good in the morning, only good at night, not good on the weekend, just so it's equal, fair and balanced," he says.
