Comments on: Low-Income Students to Receive Donated Bikes http://www.arlnow.com/2012/12/21/low-income-students-to-receive-donated-bikes/ News, Weather, Traffic, Events and Reviews in Arlington, Virginia Sat, 18 May 2013 23:13:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Scrooge http://www.arlnow.com/2012/12/21/low-income-students-to-receive-donated-bikes/#comment-288055 Scrooge Mon, 24 Dec 2012 17:04:15 +0000 https://www.arlnow.com:443/?p=61983#comment-288055 Yeah, why are these kids be in school anyway if their parents are too poor to buy them bikes? They should be out earning money instead!

]]> By: YTK http://www.arlnow.com/2012/12/21/low-income-students-to-receive-donated-bikes/#comment-287843 YTK Sun, 23 Dec 2012 22:08:34 +0000 https://www.arlnow.com:443/?p=61983#comment-287843 ps – Kudos to Arlington Presbyterian– they give back so much to the community themselves.

]]> By: YTK http://www.arlnow.com/2012/12/21/low-income-students-to-receive-donated-bikes/#comment-287842 YTK Sun, 23 Dec 2012 22:05:47 +0000 https://www.arlnow.com:443/?p=61983#comment-287842 The fact that someone, a stranger has refurbished and thoughtfully painted and fixed up a bike and given it free to a kid who would otherwise not have one, not only leaves a lasting impression on the kid, but that kid in many cases goes on to give back to the community.

]]> By: PearDPea http://www.arlnow.com/2012/12/21/low-income-students-to-receive-donated-bikes/#comment-287803 PearDPea Sun, 23 Dec 2012 17:55:29 +0000 https://www.arlnow.com:443/?p=61983#comment-287803 I’m going to take this as a funny comment. If not, then you are the saddest person that ever lived

]]> By: Grinch http://www.arlnow.com/2012/12/21/low-income-students-to-receive-donated-bikes/#comment-287790 Grinch Sun, 23 Dec 2012 17:06:01 +0000 https://www.arlnow.com:443/?p=61983#comment-287790 This give-away is nothing more than discrimination against kids whose parents earn enough to be middle and high income. It teaches kids that they can get something for nothing if they don’t work.

Bikes are luxuries, not necessities. Kids can live without them if their parents are not able to buy or find a beat-up used one that they can repair.

]]> By: WeiQiang http://www.arlnow.com/2012/12/21/low-income-students-to-receive-donated-bikes/#comment-287775 WeiQiang Sun, 23 Dec 2012 15:39:16 +0000 https://www.arlnow.com:443/?p=61983#comment-287775 Love these guys at Phoenix. Donated my HooKoo last Spring. For those not in the know, they also teach kids how to repair bikes. Good on ‘em.

]]> By: cmkeough http://www.arlnow.com/2012/12/21/low-income-students-to-receive-donated-bikes/#comment-287580 cmkeough Sun, 23 Dec 2012 01:31:03 +0000 https://www.arlnow.com:443/?p=61983#comment-287580 Well done!!

]]> By: Kleio http://www.arlnow.com/2012/12/21/low-income-students-to-receive-donated-bikes/#comment-287564 Kleio Sun, 23 Dec 2012 01:04:02 +0000 https://www.arlnow.com:443/?p=61983#comment-287564 Note on the history of fashion: until well into the 20th century, pink was viewed as a light form of red and perfectly suitable for boys. Wikipedia reports, for example: “A 1927 survey of ten [American] department stores reported that pink was preferred for boys in six of them and for girls in four. The foremost student of the role of color in children’s fashion, Jo Paoletti, found that ‘By the 1950s, pink was strongly associated with femininity’ but to an extent that was ‘neither rigid nor universal’ as it later became.”

]]> By: Kleio http://www.arlnow.com/2012/12/21/low-income-students-to-receive-donated-bikes/#comment-287562 Kleio Sun, 23 Dec 2012 00:56:42 +0000 https://www.arlnow.com:443/?p=61983#comment-287562 Class act! Including the helmets was a very nice touch.

]]> By: drax http://www.arlnow.com/2012/12/21/low-income-students-to-receive-donated-bikes/#comment-287550 drax Sat, 22 Dec 2012 23:57:18 +0000 https://www.arlnow.com:443/?p=61983#comment-287550 Save the stupid comments for later.

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