People of my parents' generation spoke often about having to 'walk good distances to school' when they were youngsters. With the building of more neighborhood schools, my generation perhaps walked five or six blocks to grade schools and a little farther to the junior high school. I confirm that as my history. I jumped on a city bus for the lift to the downtown high school site.
Of course, today's state laws require school children living a mile and one half from the free lunch program to be transported by one of the 'large-yellow-tin-cans,'i.e. school bus.
A recent 'letter-to-the-editor' from a Decatur school bus driver caught my attention. The driver was bemoaning the circumstance that he and his fellow drivers needed support from the school administration. It seems that overcrowded buses find students harassing one another and the driver as they yell vulgarity, throw objects, engage in horse play and fights, which often necessitates the driver to pull off to the roadside and address the behavior problems.
I heard gubernatorial candidate, Bruce Rauner recently say that should he be elected Governor, he'd turn more public school decisions over to the parents. This underscores the fact that politicians will say anything to be elected. The growing problems in public education are caused by parents. They want to send their little turd-blossoms from womb to room, have the schools teach manners, feed them, have after school programs that coincide with parents' work hours and deliver the little shits back to the door step sporting good grades and some awards.
The bus-behavior problem is easily solved: The driver identifies the misbehaving child. No questions asked, the child is banished from the bus until the next semester.
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