Anonymous
Post 09/05/2022 13:48     Subject: Re:Equity?!
OP is lying and using students of color as weapons because she thinks her middle schooler is too precious to walk a mile to school. The crazy is strong here.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2022 12:26     Subject: Equity?!
Anonymous wrote:Equity should be trading in one of those many six-figured central office people in for two, maybe even three, fairly paid bus drivers. The boundary changes in APS are about that, aren’t they? Let’s be honest: they can’t find drivers because they don’t pay them well. We’re over a mile from the school now, and I’m not keen on my eleven-year-old doing the walk alone. It’s a safety issue. There are no other kids that live near us, so I will drive her.

However, even further away are the kids in the apartments, and I know for a fact that some of their parents don’t have cars. I’m angry for them. All this talk about equity, and what has it gotten them? Lots of central office staff and no busses for their kids.


I support you OP. Spend money where it matters. Having people going around shouting equity makes no difference unless there is a direct impact on students.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2022 12:20     Subject: Equity?!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Are there new boundary changes? I’m confused where this came from.


Yup.


This isn't about boundary changes. OP's situation can't be about elementary school unless OP is lying about how close she is to the school, because the walk zone boundary for elementary school is 1 mile and OP says she lives over 1 mile (not to mention that there are extremely few kids starting 5th grade at age 11). So this has to be about middle school.
There were five planning units moved from Gunston to Jefferson for this school year. All of those planning units are south of Columbia Pike, though, and therefore are in the bus zone for Jefferson, so even if OP was in one of the units that moved for middle school this year, she would still be bus eligible.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2022 11:51     Subject: Re:Equity?!
Anonymous wrote:OP, you have no clue what’s going on. First, there is a shortage of people willing to drive busses at all. Second, between driver salaries and equipment costs, it’s about a million dollars a year for each bus they run. So no, laying off one administrator will not gain you 2-3 more bus routes. Not even close.

+1 bus driver shortages have been going on for many years across the country. Some of it is demographic, people who drive buses tend to be older and aren’t getting replaced. I do think one possible bandaid would be to put the bus drivers on salary instead of hourly, like they do with A-Scale employees, pay them for 7 hours a day so that they don’t need to fill in the middle gap between morning and afternoon bus routes. I think that would be more attractive to some, others could do a .5 (just morning or afternoon)
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2022 11:43     Subject: Re:Equity?!
Anonymous wrote:It's so trashy when white people try to use "equity" and low-income POC as tools for their self-interests. Try to be a little less racist, OP.


You know what I’m sick of? White people like you who think they are defending POC by calling other white people racist. Both of you suck. And yes we need more bus drivers.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2022 11:28     Subject: Re:Equity?!
It's so trashy when white people try to use "equity" and low-income POC as tools for their self-interests. Try to be a little less racist, OP.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2022 11:13     Subject: Re:Equity?!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:OP, you have no clue what’s going on. First, there is a shortage of people willing to drive busses at all. Second, between driver salaries and equipment costs, it’s about a million dollars a year for each bus they run. So no, laying off one administrator will not gain you 2-3 more bus routes. Not even close.


And by the way- I’d lay off the Chief, the Director, the Supervisor, and the Specialists if it meant only 2-3 more bus routes. We can keep the school-based coordinators. We had no equity cabinet, and now we do. We had a bus, and now we don’t.


This is incoherent. Which “Chief”? The Chief Operating Officer? The Chief Academic Officer? And which “Specialists”? The ESOL specialists? The autism specialists?
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2022 11:10     Subject: Re:Equity?!
I assume this isn’t for elementary school since the walk zone for elementaries is one mile. If your kid just started middle school, I don’t know why you think elementary busing would be relevant to middle school busing.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2022 08:40     Subject: Equity?!
Anonymous wrote:Are there new boundary changes? I’m confused where this came from.


Yup.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2022 08:39     Subject: Re:Equity?!
Anonymous wrote:OP, you have no clue what’s going on. First, there is a shortage of people willing to drive busses at all. Second, between driver salaries and equipment costs, it’s about a million dollars a year for each bus they run. So no, laying off one administrator will not gain you 2-3 more bus routes. Not even close.


And by the way- I’d lay off the Chief, the Director, the Supervisor, and the Specialists if it meant only 2-3 more bus routes. We can keep the school-based coordinators. We had no equity cabinet, and now we do. We had a bus, and now we don’t.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2022 08:39     Subject: Equity?!
Are there new boundary changes? I’m confused where this came from.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2022 08:26     Subject: Re:Equity?!
Anonymous wrote:OP, you have no clue what’s going on. First, there is a shortage of people willing to drive busses at all. Second, between driver salaries and equipment costs, it’s about a million dollars a year for each bus they run. So no, laying off one administrator will not gain you 2-3 more bus routes. Not even close.


We had a bus, and now we don’t. Where did the bus go? I think it’s about drivers. Damn right there is a shortage. PAY them fairly. We do not need an equity cabinet. These kids need a bus.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2022 07:26     Subject: Re:Equity?!
OP, you have no clue what’s going on. First, there is a shortage of people willing to drive busses at all. Second, between driver salaries and equipment costs, it’s about a million dollars a year for each bus they run. So no, laying off one administrator will not gain you 2-3 more bus routes. Not even close.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2022 06:59     Subject: Equity?!
HARD AGREE
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2022 05:51     Subject: Equity?!
Equity should be trading in one of those many six-figured central office people in for two, maybe even three, fairly paid bus drivers. The boundary changes in APS are about that, aren’t they? Let’s be honest: they can’t find drivers because they don’t pay them well. We’re over a mile from the school now, and I’m not keen on my eleven-year-old doing the walk alone. It’s a safety issue. There are no other kids that live near us, so I will drive her.

However, even further away are the kids in the apartments, and I know for a fact that some of their parents don’t have cars. I’m angry for them. All this talk about equity, and what has it gotten them? Lots of central office staff and no busses for their kids.