Bus issues solution.. maybe

[Anonymous]

Perhaps mcps should make it a priority to provide bus services to students in the less affluent part of the county. Where parents are unable to drive their kids to school because of a hardship or work. I am confident that the parents in more affluent areas can drive their kids to school, car pool etc. MCPS should prioritize bus drivers to those routes.
Its probably hard to do and mcps won’t do it but we might need to do something like this to get through these challenging times.

[Anonymous]

"No! I pay a lot in taxes to live in my over-priced home so my kids should get bus service! I have to work! I can't possibly drop my kids off when I am supposed to be working! Wah!"

[Anonymous]

How will you means test for affluent? And what’s the threshold for affluent? My husband works a swing shift and I’m expected at work by 8 am. We’re not poor but certainly not in a position to afford $500 a week before / after care for our kids and I don’t trust a sitter - not could I necessarily secure one - to drive my kids? Part of what buses offer is a safe, reliable mode of transport.

[Anonymous]

National guard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:National guard.

That ought to keep the kids in line.

[Anonymous]

I think they should drop bussing to magnet programs. Prioritize getting kids to their home schools or special education placement. That would free up busses.

[Anonymous]

The issue is that the schools can’t take the car traffic if everyone drives their kids to school. My son’s middle school was nuts last week with all the cars and impatient parents. Cars were cutting in line and dropping kids off haphazardly. It’s an accident waiting to happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Perhaps mcps should make it a priority to provide bus services to students in the less affluent part of the county. Where parents are unable to drive their kids to school because of a hardship or work. I am confident that the parents in more affluent areas can drive their kids to school, car pool etc. MCPS should prioritize bus drivers to those routes.
Its probably hard to do and mcps won’t do it but we might need to do something like this to get through these challenging times.

Cool idea. We have a neighbor on public assistance. Should they send a bus just for her kids?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The issue is that the schools can’t take the car traffic if everyone drives their kids to school. My son’s middle school was nuts last week with all the cars and impatient parents. Cars were cutting in line and dropping kids off haphazardly. It’s an accident waiting to happen.

+1 at the start of the year, when a lot of parents were driving their kids, the buses couldn't get through. Everyone was constantly late.

I'll say again. National guard.

[Anonymous]

Do you people understand WHY there is no bus service? It's because the people you entrust your children to, the ones who operate several tons of bus every school day, are too sick and too contagious to do their jobs.

I'd think this would drop a penny of at least compassion for you, if not the concern that hey, maybe something's really wrong here? But no.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think they should drop bussing to magnet programs. Prioritize getting kids to their home schools or special education placement. That would free up busses.

I agree. I also think they can drop routes to high schools when the same route is well served by public transportation.

Not saying that's ideal, but it's the best of the bad solutions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The issue is that the schools can’t take the car traffic if everyone drives their kids to school. My son’s middle school was nuts last week with all the cars and impatient parents. Cars were cutting in line and dropping kids off haphazardly. It’s an accident waiting to happen.

+1 at the start of the year, when a lot of parents were driving their kids, the buses couldn't get through. Everyone was constantly late.

I'll say again. National guard.

How does National Guard help? What percentage of the national guard has been through a screening process to show that they're safe to be around young kids unsupervised, or the skills in group management? What percentage has the right commercial license?

[Anonymous]

We’re at war against this virus, and yes, I agree with the other poster that this is partly what the NG is for.

[Anonymous]

Cool idea but I'm not sure it works in practice. For every kid who lives in a low-income apartment complex dense with other similar families, you have a kid who is struggling for financial or other reasons in a different neighborhood.

This is one of those good in theory but impossible in practice things.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The issue is that the schools can’t take the car traffic if everyone drives their kids to school. My son’s middle school was nuts last week with all the cars and impatient parents. Cars were cutting in line and dropping kids off haphazardly. It’s an accident waiting to happen.

+1 at the start of the year, when a lot of parents were driving their kids, the buses couldn't get through. Everyone was constantly late.

I'll say again. National guard.

How does National Guard help? What percentage of the national guard has been through a screening process to show that they're safe to be around young kids unsupervised, or the skills in group management? What percentage has the right commercial license?

Other states did it. Our state only had 18 months to plan for this.