https://twitter.com/frazierapproves/status/1425131183126482949
https://www.post-gazette.com/news/education/2021/08/10/Pittsburgh-public-schools-pps-officials-may-push-back-first-day-classes-transportation-busing-issues/stories/202108100108
https://twitter.com/frazierapproves/status/1425131183126482949
https://www.post-gazette.com/news/education/2021/08/10/Pittsburgh-public-schools-pps-officials-may-push-back-first-day-classes-transportation-busing-issues/stories/202108100108
The 'us is big' is the biggest bullshit excuse for your shitty ass infrastructure and society that there is. And it's used for literally everything.
Who the fuck lives 40 miles away from school? what the fuck, lmao. Just build a local town primary school holy shit. My primary school had like 6 classrooms and I had like 10 classmates. It's not an excuse.
You fuckers really stole all that land so you could drive 40 miles to school? What the ever loving fuck.
Oh shit never thought about not living far away from things, guess I just have to vote harder or personally build a school next door and hope teachers show up
:yes-chad: You live far away from shit because of your shit decadent car culture and insane zoning, that you guys keep defending fiercely btw. You people sound like literal chuds defending this shit. Imagine developing infrastructure and urban planning that works for all people. lmao.
I compared Richmond, VA to a town in my country with about the same demographic and population. They have twice the amount of primary schools as Richmond.
I live far away from shit because it's affordable, I can't afford to live in a city. Nobody here is defending zoning or car culture, you're just imagining a guy and pretending we're all that guy. Imagine blaming people who are just trying to make it month to month for the shitty infrastructure the corporate oligarchs forced us to have like sixty fucking years ago, get a grip.
and how the fuck is anyone here going to change that?
also putting a chad face next to your comment doesn't make you sound any smarter
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Yeah, I tend to agree. Australia has 3 people per km^2 vs the US 35 per km^2, in approximately the same area.
It does have schools that far away from farms but it's fairly rare in the main rural regions with towns every 50km apart at most, and in the real outback where you have cattle stations the size of Belgium they use School of the Air. It's not that hard, you just have to have good planning.
edit: We do have some urban school buses, of course, but they're run by the state and staffed by public employees, and a good chunk of kids take standard services for free. The idea a city could be "out of drivers" is absurd.
"All of the small schools were closed and consolidated into one school" is pretty common in the USA.
Rural areas have cheaper property (and lower property taxes, which is a large part of how schools are paid for in the USA) which means not enough money to maintain schools for fewer and fewer students as families with some money/decent paying jobs move to the cities. This leads to a handful of well off kids and bunch of poor kids needing to be transported to school someway that doesn't leave a bunch of kids pretty much living at school.
From my life, my mom left for work at 4:30~5:00 AM and got back from work around 6PM. Which was a few hours before the bus came by to pick me up and a few hours after I got back home from school. If she were to drive me to school and pick me up from school... I'd probably be picked up by the police or child protective services as I would just always be sitting outside of school, rain, snow, heat, etc.