MCPS has been told to review bus stops and move them to safe locations

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPS truly has not made student safety a priority. Whether it is guns in schools, whether it is sexual abuse, whether it is bus stop safety, etc. Heck, there was a bus driver caught abusing that poor SN girl ON the bus. And the last two years with Covid made it even more clear that students are NOT a priority.

MCPS needs to ensure that our kids are SAFE. First and foremost. On buses, at the bus stop and IN school.

Bus stop supervision is on the parents. MCPS cannot be blamed for this. And, there was a parent supervising this child. It was a horrible tragedy.

It sounds like someone lost control of their vehicle and drove up on the sidewalk. This is tragic, but I'm not sure it's the Board of Education's fault.

+1

There are plenty of reasons to be frustrated with the BOE, but this isn’t one of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It was an elderly driver. Bad vision? Mixing up the gas and the brake? This is not on MCPS. The stop was not on a main road and anybody can jump a curb.

This is on our incredibly lax driver licensing system which hands licenses to young people with minimal practice and a joke of a driving exam and then lets them keep that license in perpetuity with basically no checks on when they become too visually or cognitively impaired to still be a safe driver. It is SO much harder to qualify for a license in much of Europe and you can lose it or get it suspended much more easily. In Germany they actually have something called the MPU or "Idiotentest" which is basically a medical/psychological evaluation a person has to undertake at their own expense after a qualifying incident to prove that they are not too stupid to be allowed to drive. A lot of people fail it. We need that.

agree.. the license to drive here is a joke, much like the license to carry, or actually in some states, you don't even really need a license to carry a concealed weapon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPS truly has not made student safety a priority. Whether it is guns in schools, whether it is sexual abuse, whether it is bus stop safety, etc. Heck, there was a bus driver caught abusing that poor SN girl ON the bus. And the last two years with Covid made it even more clear that students are NOT a priority.

MCPS needs to ensure that our kids are SAFE. First and foremost. On buses, at the bus stop and IN school.

Bus stop supervision is on the parents. MCPS cannot be blamed for this. And, there was a parent supervising this child. It was a horrible tragedy.

It sounds like someone lost control of their vehicle and drove up on the sidewalk. This is tragic, but I'm not sure it's the Board of Education's fault.

+1

There are plenty of reasons to be frustrated with the BOE, but this isn’t one of them.

I disagree. MCPS is COMPLETELY at fault. My guess is that someone was cutting corners when there was a bus driver shortage to squeeze in more stops in less time.

Take a close look at that area with Google maps. I've driven that road. There is no way anyone with child safety in mind would put a bus stop there. It's crazy. What idiot would put a bus stop on a busy road used by commuters?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPS truly has not made student safety a priority. Whether it is guns in schools, whether it is sexual abuse, whether it is bus stop safety, etc. Heck, there was a bus driver caught abusing that poor SN girl ON the bus. And the last two years with Covid made it even more clear that students are NOT a priority.

MCPS needs to ensure that our kids are SAFE. First and foremost. On buses, at the bus stop and IN school.

Bus stop supervision is on the parents. MCPS cannot be blamed for this. And, there was a parent supervising this child. It was a horrible tragedy.

It sounds like someone lost control of their vehicle and drove up on the sidewalk. This is tragic, but I'm not sure it's the Board of Education's fault.

+1

There are plenty of reasons to be frustrated with the BOE, but this isn’t one of them.

I disagree. MCPS is COMPLETELY at fault. My guess is that someone was cutting corners when there was a bus driver shortage to squeeze in more stops in less time.

Take a close look at that area with Google maps. I've driven that road. There is no way anyone with child safety in mind would put a bus stop there. It's crazy. What idiot would put a bus stop on a busy road used by commuters?

It's a townhouse community wedged in between Grosvenor Lane, Rockville Pike, and 270. Grosvenor Lane is the least busy road. Where do you think they should have a bus stop?

[Anonymous]

I just looked at the street view. Grosvener looks to be a somewhat busy road so I would have thought the risk would be from traffic traveling down that main road. But it sounds like the driver was turning from the smaller access road inside the townhome community.

There is a pretty giant bush and a big grassy area though. I don’t understand how somehow jumps a curb and mows someone down if they should have been going slow from within the community? The driver must have been flooring it into the turn and his comments to the media are that he’s “sorry.” That just doesn’t really cut it for me unless the guy was having a medical emergency.

You hop a curb and kill someone there needs to be jail time. This seems so grossly negligent. My heart breaks for the child and his family.

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