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Anonymous Wed 08 Sep 2021 14:32:08 No.1705745 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>1705749 >>1705766 >>1705769 >>1705782 >>1705811 >>1705822 >>1705943

how do we feel about schoolies using the city bus?
https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/st-paul-public-schools-to-change-schedules-provide-metro-transit-cards-amid-bus-driver-shortage/89-9e1b740c-2a90-4671-b779-db6216119fe3

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Sep 2021 14:39:31 No.1705749 Report

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>>1705745
I used the public system throughout high school lol. Nothing wrong with it, although regular people tried to avoid catching it around 3:30pm when school finished

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Sep 2021 15:33:18 No.1705765 Report

Quoted By: >>1705914 >>1705923

Pretty sure drivers need to have a CDL.
Bus drivers got paid like $12 an hour before the pandemic and work split shifts. Not to mention kids are pure hell on buses because no one is around to control them.

No one in their right mind would ever drive a school bus. It's one of the shittiest jobs imaginable.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Sep 2021 15:33:59 No.1705766 Report

Quoted By: >>1705774 >>1705841

>>1705745
They should have always been, the fact that school buses are even a thing outside of nowhere rural areas shows how awful American transit is.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Sep 2021 15:39:37 No.1705769 Report

Quoted By: >>1705770 >>1705838 >>1705924

>>1705745
School buses shouldn't need to exist
If your kid isn't able to walk / cycle to school then they won't be able to visit the houses of any friends they make at school either

In the UK I can go meet up with anyone I used to go to school with in a 10 minute bike ride or less

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Sep 2021 15:41:26 No.1705770 Report

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>>1705769
Why should we care how you do it?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Sep 2021 15:42:12 No.1705772 Report

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I rode a public bus daily for the th 16 years of my education

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Sep 2021 15:43:53 No.1705774 Report

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>>1705766
My gf grew up in Taiwan. She didn't ride the bus but instead everyone in her village just paid some guy with extra time to drive the kids to and from school each day. This kind of carpool model could work for suburban kids if school systems want can't get funding measures passed in local areas.

They can get some Silicon Valley dudes to found a startup or just give it to Uber. Uber Student.

With schools unable to find drivers and municipalities unwilling to pass bigger budgets for schools this could become a viable alternative if Uber / others contact schools directly and lobby their services as a replacement. These people also don't need to have a CDL so the cost labor is lower and also there is no vehicle cost / maintenance cost on the school district.

This is actually a great (terrible) idea.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Sep 2021 15:57:37 No.1705782 Report

Quoted By: >>1705784 >>1705925

>>1705745
That’s completely normal where I live. Why do American children need special school buses anyway?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Sep 2021 16:03:40 No.1705784 Report

Quoted By: >>1705786

>>1705782
the bulletproofing

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Sep 2021 16:10:30 No.1705786 Report

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>>1705784
Makes sense, as a regular commuter I wouldn’t want to get hurt by their shootings

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Sep 2021 17:25:01 No.1705811 Report

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>>1705745
The youngoids are very annoying with their oh so random child screams and inane talks, we should look up to america and segregate our public transport.
For that matter, we should introduce elderino buses as well, do they really need to go to the market at rush hour? Plusyou always have to give up your seat otherwise the start rambling on about >muh generation and how everyone used to be less rude. Maybe just have them sit at the back or smth...

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Sep 2021 19:00:35 No.1705822 Report

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>>1705745
> commuting to school
MEGACRINGE

t. went to 3 schools, never walked more than 10 minutes

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Sep 2021 20:25:01 No.1705838 Report

Quoted By: >>1705924

>>1705769
>"I can't visit friends after school :/ "
>Oh well no need for education or school then, you just stay at home because you lived outside the 10 minutes acceptable range I guess.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Sep 2021 20:29:39 No.1705841 Report

Quoted By: >>1705844 >>1705879 >>1705927 >>1705976 >>1706088 >>1706095

>>1705766
>the fact that school buses are even a thing outside of nowhere rural areas shows how awful American transit is.
A bus comes to your house, picks up your kid and brings him home afterwards. Free of charge and supervised...
I love all the ameribashing for no reason, but that actually sounds like a huge convenient perk.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Sep 2021 20:35:13 No.1705844 Report

Quoted By: >>1705929

>>1705841
The problem with school buses mirrors the problem with public transportation. Both sound nice to have, in an ideal world. Then you realize a certain percentage of the users are shitheads who don't care about bothering everyone around them or actively fuck with other riders and the whole thing quickly becomes hell on wheels. And again, in theory, there should be mechanisms to prevent or stop that from happening, but the state has made it obvious they have zero interest in cleaning up transit and school buses of the scum that use them and ruin it for everyone else. That's why so many parents drop off and pick up their kids from school and why many commuters put up with driving at rush hour over using public transportation.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Sep 2021 21:46:34 No.1705872 Report

Quoted By: >>1705931

I took the bus to and from high school since I didnt want to walk 30 minutes, but seriously the frequency and funding of schools in the US and canada is extremely embarrassing and below standards.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Sep 2021 21:51:17 No.1705879 Report

Quoted By: >>1705931 >>1705959

>>1705841
The school bus is actually the best implementation of public transportation in the world. Picks you up directly from your house even in not dense areas and takes you exactly where you need to go, and home again, all for free.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Sep 2021 00:10:18 No.1705914 Report

Quoted By: >>1706232

>>1705765
I took the city bus to school in high school. Even in my garbage neighborhood it was fine - there were so many of us it might as well have been a school bus. Wouldn't recommend it for elementary school but there's no reason for a yellow school bus in high school.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Sep 2021 00:47:32 No.1705923 Report

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>>1705765
My bus drivers were cool and generally they were treated with respect. One kid argued with my high school drivcer once and four of us told the kid to shut the fuck up.
I couldn't imagine it in some cities though much less being a teacher.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Sep 2021 00:50:18 No.1705924 Report

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>>1705769
What stupid shit is this? Why should people with large tracks of land or farmers not be to send their kids to a school they pay for? School isn't about hanging out with friends after school.
>>1705838
This.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Sep 2021 00:51:55 No.1705925 Report

Quoted By: >>1706091 >>1706097

>>1705782
Your country is overpopulated. I own land. Why should my kids have to buy an Uber to travel 20 miles each morning?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Sep 2021 00:54:46 No.1705927 Report

Quoted By: >>1706139

>>1705841
>that actually sounds like a huge convenient perk.
It is. Anyone upset with school busses is
a triggered faggot. If the kid doesn't get on they tell the specific teacher, who makes sure the kid isn't ditching by emailing the parent/caregiver. I never understood how kids just "ditch," a good school system makes it impossible for a kid to do this without a parent knowing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Sep 2021 00:57:19 No.1705929 Report

Quoted By: >>1705935

>>1705844
>but the state has made it obvious they have zero interest in cleaning up transit and school buses of the scum that use them and ruin it for everyone else.
As a child therapist I can say that is age appropriate behavior for minors, it's a part of learning and my taxes aren't going to micropolicing minors on a bus for making fun of you. As an anon you sound like a pussy who didn't learn to defend himself. Keep being angry at 15 y.o.s or learn to drive.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Sep 2021 00:58:32 No.1705931 Report

Quoted By: >>1706141

>>1705872
>but seriously the frequency and funding of schools in the US and canada is extremely embarrassing and below standards.
NA as a continent uses more school busses per student than most, what bullshit are you spewing?
>>1705879
This.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Sep 2021 01:00:18 No.1705932 Report

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What could possibly go wrong in a nice safe place like the twin cities

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Sep 2021 01:08:53 No.1705934 Report

Quoted By: >>1706225

Americans hate buses, because of school bus ptsd.

Schools should be smaller and more numerous. So that children can walk and cycle to school.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Sep 2021 01:11:39 No.1705935 Report

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>>1705929
t. homeschooled

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Sep 2021 02:14:09 No.1705943 Report

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>>1705745
>Bus driver shortage
>shortage
that one word is what convinced me to go into crippling debt at a 141 school only for airlines to stop hiring for 1.5 years

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Sep 2021 03:11:07 No.1705959 Report

Quoted By: >>1708336

>>1705879
It's not public at all though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Sep 2021 04:40:30 No.1705976 Report

Quoted By: >>1706117 >>1706225

>>1705841
>. Free of charge

It's incredibly expensive and a massive strain on school budgets. This thread started with an example of not even being able to pay enough to retain drivers.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Sep 2021 13:53:20 No.1706088 Report

Quoted By: >>1706225

>>1705841
>Free of charge
lol
>supervised
megalol

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Sep 2021 14:29:59 No.1706091 Report

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>>1705925
>Why should my kids have to buy an Uber to travel 20 miles each morning?
don't ask us, you're the idiot that moved them 20 miles from their education, retard.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Sep 2021 14:52:13 No.1706095 Report

Quoted By: >>1706225

>>1705841
>Free of charge and supervised
looooooooool

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Sep 2021 14:53:15 No.1706097 Report

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>>1705925
>Why should my kids have to buy an Uber to travel 20 miles each morning?
not my problem

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Sep 2021 15:46:46 No.1706117 Report

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>>1705976
It's like 'free' universal healthcare, somehow if it's paid by tax or community money it's progressive and social.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Sep 2021 17:48:55 No.1706139 Report

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>>1705927
>I never understood how kids just "ditch," a good school system makes it impossible for a kid to do this without a parent knowing.
the kids who ditched school just had parents who didn't care if their kids were out of school
t. ditcher who got his act together

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Sep 2021 17:52:33 No.1706141 Report

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>>1705931
schools themselves, not school busses, retard, learn to read

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Sep 2021 23:43:41 No.1706225 Report

Quoted By: >>1706227

>>1705934
>every fifth house is a school now
>kids grow up and move away
>neighborhood collapses
Thank God this board is NEETs whose ideas will never come to fruition.
>>1705976
>>1706088
>>1706095
But we should all ride the regular adult bus and it should be free of charge because that will fix everything and achieve utopia.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Sep 2021 23:49:01 No.1706227 Report

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>>1706225
He's right. The trend in education over the last few decades has been consolidation. That means more students have to go farther to attend, and end up getting alienated in schools with 1000+ students. It saves money, but at the cost of socialization.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Sep 2021 00:27:26 No.1706232 Report

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>>1705914
>but there's no reason for a yellow school bus in high school.
RIP rural students i guess

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Sep 2021 19:58:23 No.1708336 Report

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>>1705959
It's paid with tax dollars, that's why it's "public".

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 16 Sep 2021 18:54:46 No.1708629 Report

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They did it when I used to live and the downtown stop was flooded with "suburban youths", giant 100+ crowds so a lot of people probably got robbed or jumped. So many fucking weaves on the ground from the fights that would break out too. Also because it was public transport many kids would just get off at random stops while going to school so it looked like they left on the bus to their negligent parents but really they just got back off and headed to McDonald's 3 minutes later. I felt bad for the working adults that would use the bus at those times, morning wasn't that bad but afternoon was hell.
However I have to say a large part of it was how widespread the school population was. Most of the problem could have been solved by just assigning kids to school much closer to home instead of having to bus them halfway across the city.

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