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You don't think kids riding public transportation to school crammed together with a random assortment of adults every day is riskier than kids riding a bus with other kids only from their school? [b]And you are basing this assessment on what?[/b]

You are right though that the fact that the school district itself is responsible for the transportation is an issue, because then they have liability. Liability is obviously a huge issue in a litigious society.[/quote]

On data about public transportation during covid. Public transportation is safe for riders.

Not that the buses, trains, etc. should have "crammed-together" passengers, by the way. With or without students.[/quote]

Oh, ok, so what you meant to say is that public transportation is just as safe as school buses would be, since it would seem that the data on public transportation (which I now remember reading about) would apply to school buses, too. I thought you were arguing that both are equally unsafe.[/quote]

To be sure, one of the explanations for the safety of public transportation is that people don't talk much. So a bus full of high school kids at 7 am would be low-risk (everyone asleep or on their phones), and a bus full of elementary school kids at 3:30 pm would be high-risk.:-)

However, school bus transportation is logistically complicated for MCPS even during normal times. If they also have to follow the distancing guidelines, then they simply can't do it. There are some things that would help, for example a policy that they won't provide school bus service to high school kids and middle school kids where public transportation is available. But it seems self-contradictory to achieve distancing on school buses by off-loading kids onto public buses with no distancing.

Another logistical problem is the school bus drivers. There's been rear-door boarding on buses in Montgomery County since March, to protect the drivers. That's not an option on school buses.[/quote]

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