Bus issues solution.. maybe

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A single parent who does well but has to be at work early and has no flexibility is in trouble.

Doctors have to be in OR early. If their kid is 12, they no longer have nannies.

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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.

Hell no! I am sick of our gifted children getting shafted time after time. Is it not bad enough we get a subpar building, and NOW you are trying to take our buses?? Our kids are well behaved and we all gift our bus drivers to say thank you. Maybe you should try that and teaching your kids to behave. Magnet kids' buses get left alone. Period.

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Anonymous wrote:First of all, what makes you think all the National Guard folks have CDL licenses?

And have they been background checked? God knows enough MCPS molest kids already.

And you care so much about your own world, you don't give a crap about National Guard members who also have real jobs and families at home. Hmmmmmm.....

+1,000

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Anonymous wrote: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.

MCPS has a duty to provide all students access to a Free Appropriate Public Education. Part of access is bus transportation for students if they cannot safely walk to school.

MCPS has breached this responsibility. Someone will step in with an Office of Civil Rights complaint on behalf of all affected students. Even more so when students with disabilities are denied bus transportation to access the support and services they need. OCR sometimes starts their own investigation when they see such problems in the news.

OK, well, then to be fair to all, since they can’t manufacture COVID negative bus drivers from thin air, we’ll just shut it down, go virtual and then no one will need buses. Problem solved!

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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?

It's so brilliant we have an infinite number of these National Guard robots. They can handle the emergency room overflow, drive school buses, give out covid tests and vaccines....

Hey, funny random story? Yesterday I spoke with a friend who works in a covid vaccine manufacturing plant. They had 300 workers absent on Friday. All sick with covid.

MA is considered the best state for education. They pulled in their National Guard to help with driver shortages. They figured it out. We can't do the same? Because MCPS always makes excuses why they can't achieve something that other districts can? Always some excuse. It's like my kids.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/10/07/school-bus-shortage-massachusetts-national-guard/

I think it might be the Governor that would call in the National Guard but go ahead and put it on MCPS as usual.

I can see the headlines now - "MCPS calls in National Guard to enforce in-person learning, McKnight refuses Hybrid amidst increasing pediatric hospitalizations"?

here's an actual headline rather than your made up one:

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/30/learning-loss-from-virtual-school-due-to-covid-is-significant-.html

More than half of public school K-12 teachers said the pandemic resulted in a “significant” learning loss for students, both academically and in their social-emotional progress, according to a report.
Other research also shows distance learning has caused a significant setback in achievement, particularly among Black and Hispanic students and students with disabilities

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Seriously? You're worried about lower test scores for your kid? That's really conceited, self-centered, and reflects badly upon you as a human being. Really.

“I think a lot of parents have been relying on the narrative that if you have a healthy child, it’s very unlikely that your child can get sick from Covid. That’s not true,” said Dr. Amy Edwards, a pediatric infectious disease expert at University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital in Cleveland."

"Edwards said she and her colleagues have noted a "significant uptick" in the number of children admitted to the hospital recently with Covid-19, as well as an increase in the number of such children needing IV fluids, oxygen support and, in some cases, ventilation."

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/covid-warning-symptoms-children-kids-hospitalized-record-numbers-rcna10741

I think people like you should be forced to do volunteer work at the ICU to help monitor pediatric covid cases. I really, really do.

My kids' test scores are 90 to 99%. I'm not worried about their test scores. 99% of kids who have covid don't end up hospitalized. Stop fear mongering. If you are scared, then stay home.

My kid had covid. He was fine. I know several other kids who had covid. They are fine. While it's tragic when anyone gets very sick or die, we shouldn't live in fear.

The people who work in hospitals have a skewed sense off reality, even as I appreciate their work. And speaking, if they have little kids, who's going to mind their kids doing VL while they work? Or should the country just shutdown?

Your anecdotes are meaningless.

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Just ride the wave, get covid, someone dies then they die.

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Anonymous wrote:National guard.

You guys seem to think there's an unlimited supply of people ready to do your bidding. I know people who have been tasked to drive buses while in the national guard and they're all getting out asap instead of staying. No one joins the national guard planning to drive school buses their entire career.

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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.

Hell no! I am sick of our gifted children getting shafted time after time. Is it not bad enough we get a subpar building, and NOW you are trying to take our buses?? Our kids are well behaved and we all gift our bus drivers to say thank you. Maybe you should try that and teaching your kids to behave. Magnet kids' buses get left alone. Period.

NP. I’m a parent of another magnet kid. I’ve actually been driving my DC in the a.m.s because the departure time of the bus is very early and the stop isn’t near our house, so it would necessitate my kid (and me) leaving home around 6:15 to drive to the stop. I’m in a position to drive DC because I’m not working now although I am restarting a job search.
I’ve been wondering whether I could offer to carpool, should this bus route be suspended. Or to allow their driver to serve a different route. But here are some issues:
- I don’t know the identities of the other kids who take that route, and do not have contact info for the parents
- I think it’s unlikely that a parent would be comfortable with a stranger driving their kids on busy roads (20+ mins each way), and trusting that the car is covid safe (I’d wear a mask, of course, but parents would need to feel comfortable trusting that I and the other kids would do so)
- I could only take 2 other kids in my car anyways so the situation isn’t really solved entirely and leaves a gap. Therefore it would not allow MCPS to reallocate their bus to a different route.

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Get rid of magnet schools.
Make kids go to school closets to house.
Cancel late busses.
Make distance 1.5 miles or greater to get bus.

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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.

Hell no! I am sick of our gifted children getting shafted time after time. Is it not bad enough we get a subpar building, and NOW you are trying to take our buses?? Our kids are well behaved and we all gift our bus drivers to say thank you. Maybe you should try that and teaching your kids to behave. Magnet kids' buses get left alone. Period.

Magnet kids often share buses with special needs kids. So those routes get priority because of the special needs kids.
Don’t worry. Magnet kids get bus service with long routes and stops far from their home. So you don’t need to make sure they get bullied around extra during all of this.

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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?

It's so brilliant we have an infinite number of these National Guard robots. They can handle the emergency room overflow, drive school buses, give out covid tests and vaccines....

Hey, funny random story? Yesterday I spoke with a friend who works in a covid vaccine manufacturing plant. They had 300 workers absent on Friday. All sick with covid.

MA is considered the best state for education. They pulled in their National Guard to help with driver shortages. They figured it out. We can't do the same? Because MCPS always makes excuses why they can't achieve something that other districts can? Always some excuse. It's like my kids.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/10/07/school-bus-shortage-massachusetts-national-guard/

I think it might be the Governor that would call in the National Guard but go ahead and put it on MCPS as usual.

I can see the headlines now - "MCPS calls in National Guard to enforce in-person learning, McKnight refuses Hybrid amidst increasing pediatric hospitalizations"?

here's an actual headline rather than your made up one:

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/30/learning-loss-from-virtual-school-due-to-covid-is-significant-.html

More than half of public school K-12 teachers said the pandemic resulted in a “significant” learning loss for students, both academically and in their social-emotional progress, according to a report.
Other research also shows distance learning has caused a significant setback in achievement, particularly among Black and Hispanic students and students with disabilities

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Seriously? You're worried about lower test scores for your kid? That's really conceited, self-centered, and reflects badly upon you as a human being. Really.

“I think a lot of parents have been relying on the narrative that if you have a healthy child, it’s very unlikely that your child can get sick from Covid. That’s not true,” said Dr. Amy Edwards, a pediatric infectious disease expert at University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital in Cleveland."

"Edwards said she and her colleagues have noted a "significant uptick" in the number of children admitted to the hospital recently with Covid-19, as well as an increase in the number of such children needing IV fluids, oxygen support and, in some cases, ventilation."

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/covid-warning-symptoms-children-kids-hospitalized-record-numbers-rcna10741

I think people like you should be forced to do volunteer work at the ICU to help monitor pediatric covid cases. I really, really do.

My kids' test scores are 90 to 99%. I'm not worried about their test scores. 99% of kids who have covid don't end up hospitalized. Stop fear mongering. If you are scared, then stay home.

My kid had covid. He was fine. I know several other kids who had covid. They are fine. While it's tragic when anyone gets very sick or die, we shouldn't live in fear.

The people who work in hospitals have a skewed sense off reality, even as I appreciate their work. And speaking, if they have little kids, who's going to mind their kids doing VL while they work? Or should the country just shutdown?

Your anecdotes are meaningless.

And so are everyone else's. So, let's look at the data:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/children-under-five-hospitalized-covid-record/

The hospitalization rate among these kids has surged since mid-December to more than 4 in 100,000 children.

Do the math. What's the % of children being hospitalized with covid? Go on.. I'll wait. It's a great math question to upper ES kids. Ask your kid.

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Anonymous wrote:National guard.

You guys seem to think there's an unlimited supply of people ready to do your bidding. I know people who have been tasked to drive buses while in the national guard and they're all getting out asap instead of staying. No one joins the national guard planning to drive school buses their entire career.

How did MA manage to do it with their National Guard? Other states are smarter than us? Well, MA is known for being the best state for education. I guess MD and moco are too dumb or too scared to think creatively and figure it out.

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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.

Hell no! I am sick of our gifted children getting shafted time after time. Is it not bad enough we get a subpar building, and NOW you are trying to take our buses?? Our kids are well behaved and we all gift our bus drivers to say thank you. Maybe you should try that and teaching your kids to behave. Magnet kids' buses get left alone. Period.

Parent of a magnet kid here, and if you think all magnet kids are well behaved then you aren't talking to your kid very much. If by "subpar building" you mean Eastern, maybe you should shed a tear for all of the kids who have it as their home school rather than worrying about the magnet kids being somehow specially singled out for a bad facility.

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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.

Hell no! I am sick of our gifted children getting shafted time after time. Is it not bad enough we get a subpar building, and NOW you are trying to take our buses?? Our kids are well behaved and we all gift our bus drivers to say thank you. Maybe you should try that and teaching your kids to behave. Magnet kids' buses get left alone. Period.

Parent of a magnet kid here, and if you think all magnet kids are well behaved then you aren't talking to your kid very much. If by "subpar building" you mean Eastern, maybe you should shed a tear for all of the kids who have it as their home school rather than worrying about the magnet kids being somehow specially singled out for a bad facility.

Parent of magnet kids here, too, and give me a break, you know perfectly well they are in general much, much better behaved.

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Anonymous wrote:Get rid of magnet schools.
Make kids go to school closets to house.
Cancel late busses.
Make distance 1.5 miles or greater to get bus.

Stop feeding this weird anti-magnet troll