Not just academics public school has become so screwed up they can’t even figure out bus routes so they have to cancel school!!!!!
Jefferson County schools started last week. Many kids DID NOT ARRIVE HOME FROM SCHOOL LAST WEEK UNTIL 9:30 PM!!!!!!!!!
That’s correct nearly 6 hours after school released kids were still on busses trying to get home.

This is exactly what happens when school districts bus kids all over freaking town instead of just having kids go to the school that is closest to them.

It causes many issues.
You no longer have outstanding schools because you bus a ton of failures from the failing schools to the over achieving schools, thinking these failures will magically start to excel because they are at a different school.
Nope all you do is make that outstanding school mediocre or if you send too many failures to the excellent schools you crush that school and it becomes a failure.

Then you have kids on buses for crazy lengths of time just to get ti school when in many many cases if you just did attendance based upon location of one’s residence to the school.
Many of those kids would not need the bus at all in turn saving the school district a ton of money on transportation.

I grew up going to the public school that was closest to your house. Simple. Rarely road the bus in elementary and middle school because we walked or rode our bike. The high school that was on the same campus as the middle school did not even need to provide bus service.

And what, pray tell, is the political makeup of the school board?

My guess is they have a driver shortage too. Seems like no one wants to drive the little darlings anymore.

I drive past the school bus depot in my county 4 times a day during the week. They got signs out, $22 an hour, signing bonus, they’ll pay for your CDL training, and I’m pretty sure it said benefits as well. Tempting.

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Originally posted by trapper189:
Tempting.

Two weeks of the fucking little savages and you'd be ready to drive the bus off of an overpass.

I guess none of the parents drive. Both of my kids were driven to school daily in a private vehicle. Public school I might add. Is this an impoverished area where nobody has a car? Again, depending on the government to take care of you.
When I lived in the city I took the CTA.

In my area, they have made a lot of areas where buses now walker. Budget and finding drivers but then they go a sign a contract for a bunch of electric buses. Then the contract for said buses gets out and it's a lot more "per route" which I guess is how they do it.

Also seeing stuff about some of the new walking areas that were supposed to have sidewalks put in. These should have started in June. Some didn't start till August. Now they can't find enough crossing guards for all the intersections for the new walkers.

School boards and those that make these decisions are so far out in left field.

Even in the ancient past of my bus riding days, the school bus was a rolling version of Lord of the Flies:
Bullies were just waiting to kick your ass and relieve you of your lunch money. And toss your homework out the window.
Lots of kids were sick AF, with puking on each other common.
In winter, it was the mobile version of the Arctic. In summer, you roasted. Window latches rarely worked.
A surprising number of your fellow students were drunk and passing a bottle of Boones Farm around.
If your bus driver got pissed (usually after being beaned with something) he or she would bring the bus to a screeching halt, wade into the melee, grab your ass and fling it into the street. Then drive off and leave you.
If you were 10 seconds late at the bus stop, the door was slammed, the driver stomped on the gas and left you stranded. Your fellow riders delighted in this and ran to the back windows to flip you off as they sped away. Then I had to run flat out for two blocks in hopes catching the bus at the stop on the next street over. Difficult on snowy winter roads!
In later years, some of the "popular" girls were known to give out blow jobs. I think this was a business (or weed) transaction.
I finally rode my bike most days, regardless of weather.
I would guess that the bus ride experience has not improved with time.

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Fairly accurate, but I survived and learned a lot of stuff. Getting along with bullies was number one. The second was knowing where to sit on the bus. Finally I had friends that had cars and I hitched a ride.
I attended a large public school and there was at least one fight in the lunch room on a daily basis.

And our school district superintendent just got a $75,000 raise up around $350,000, plus nice benefits I’m sure. Eventually he will be paid a few million to walk away like all the other folks in positions like his around this state.
Not far from a $2 billion budget for one county school district.

My niece is a JCPS teacher. I work for a nearby school district as a bus driver.

JCPS is a clown show, their budget is 1.7 billion dollars, yes BILLION, which is bigger then the City of Louisville/ county of Jefferson budget.

JCPS bus driver starting pay is $21.69 per hour, with a $6.00 per hour incentive Is available. They are Teamsters.

JCPS have 1250 busses in the fleet, the 15th largest in the nation. 96,000 students, 29th largest of with something like 75% are bus riders.

They, as also with my district are in a bus driver shortage. As with most school districts, the biggest problem is student Discipline, which the schools administrators have no interest in fixing.

Also low pay for the liability that you as a driver have.

To answer Para's question, it dimwhitcrap, most of Louisville/ Jefferson County government is dimwhitcrap.

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Originally posted by ARman:
As with most school districts, the biggest problem is student Discipline, which the schools administrators have no interest in fixing.

Some of those little bastards need to be stunned with a cattle prod before being allowed on the bus. A select few need a second zap on their way off of the bus.

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To answer Para's question, it dimwhitcrap, most of Louisville/ Jefferson County government is dimwhitcrap.

Shocking. I never would have guessed.

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Originally posted by parabellum:

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Originally posted by ARman:
As with most school districts, the biggest problem is student Discipline, which the schools administrators have no interest in fixing.

Some of those little bastards need to be stunned with a cattle prod before being allowed on the bus. A select few need a second zap on their way off of the bus.

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To answer Para's question, it dimwhitcrap, most of Louisville/ Jefferson County government is dimwhitcrap.

Shocking. I never would have guessed.

I have suggested Shock collars, for both the students and parents, the shock collar would radio transmit to the parents every time the students get zapped. That would fix things!

ARman

Yes, shock collars. Much more efficient than a prod. They can't run from the collar.

I don't want to drive, but put me on a bus with the master controller for all those little devils. That would be the most serene, well-mannered, cooperative bunch of kids ever to ride a Blue Bird.

Or there would be Hell to pay.

"Several students were acting up on Bus 673 yesterday, nearly caused the driver to lose control."

"Yeah? Give me some fresh batteries and put me on board. Your problem is solved already, believe me."

Para, you can be my attendant any time!

Most of our kids are good/great. There is a small group that disrupt everything. Yet, no one wants to do anything with them.

I love my job ( not as much as I used to), and look forward to going to work most times.

Our first day was the same as JCPS, we had some rough spots, but nothing like that!

I had a great summer break, inwhich I still drove 3 days a week for the summer program/daycare, field trips and the like.

Weather for Kentucky was mostly great, few really hot days, so I was outside with my dogs most of the time. So I wasn't looking forward to going back. Friday it was 140° F on my bus. Not fun.


ARman

Back story to this is according to local radio, the school system spent somewhere between 250-500k (no one seems to know)
To an engineering firm to streamline the districts bus routes.

Following the engineering firms routes was a disaster. Now, the finger pointing has began with no one really being responsible for what happened. The school board blamed the engineering firm, the engineering firm blaming the school board.

At least that was on the talk radio shows Friday….

I’m just thankful they spent so much effort on everyone’s pronouns. Thank goodness for that.

UPS volunteered to work with the Jefferson County School Board to help them figure out the routes but the school board refused.

Do you want to save money? take a good hard look at school buses.

A local middle school I walk past on occasion lines up 35 buses for a school with 300 kids. most buses only have about 10 kids on each because God forbid Johnny can’t ride the bus longer than 20 minutes according to you the rules. So we release the yellow plague onto the streets. These giant behemoths rolling around with 10 children on them.

This makes total sense to the liberal mind.

Don't invest any time, effort, or money into the struggling programs. This is what driving 'equity' does when it is hopelessly and hilariously misapplied.

Smart parents aren't stupid, they move into areas with good schools for their kids. Can you imagine how irate a parent would be if they selected to live, and likely pay a premium in taxes and property values to live in the area with the good school, only to have their child bussed to the hell hole on the other side of town?