Has everyone heard on the News about the bus problem in New York City? The schools decided that they needed to save money, so in order to do this, they cut back on 81 bus routes. Leaving a lot of kids not being able to be bused to school. The principle of this particular New York school said that all children (k-12th) can take the subway and metros. I think this is outrageous. You can't expect a 1st grader to hop on a subway. This has been going on for 2 weeks now, and I wonder how many kids haven't been able to get to school because of this. They interviewed one family, who lives 90 blocks away from the school, and every morning the father and son get up at 4:30am to get ready and have breakfast and it takes them an hour and a half to get to school. The father said that this was cutting into his job, but that his child has to go to school. Parents are furious. But they interviewed teachers of the schools and they think its great (or at least the ones they interviewed thought it was great) because they said they can get better pensions, benefits and better equipment in the schools etc. My question is.....How is better equipment in the schools going to help if you don't have the students in the schools to use them??
posted by Cait @ 4:18 PM
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That is ridiculous! How can any teacher be expected to teach successfully when their students are dealing with problems like this? How can students be expected to concentrate on school, when they have to get up at 4:30 to get there? I applaud the parents that are making this work, and I feel terrible for the parents who can not possibly make this work. Parents have enough things to worry about in New York City then being concerned that their children need to take the subway or that they need to get up at 4:30 in the morning to get to school safely.
See, I just cannot imagine that it is that terrible teaching in this particular New York City school that they cut children living 90 blocks from school out of bussing just to increase teacher's pensions and provide newer equipment. It sounds like the school is taking a shortcut with absolutely no regard to the children. I want to know exactly where the money that used to bus those children is going and how on earth it is going to better their education, because ultimately, the school exist to provide the best education possible to its students.
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