Sound Politics: Taking kids for a ride

September 27, 2007

Taking kids for a ride

Seattle Times: "School-bus snafu takes kids for ride"

Seattle Public Schools is blaming a software glitch for 900 incorrect student bus schedules during the first weeks of school.

Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at September 27, 2007 10:59 AM | Email This

Comments

1. WHAT! Are they sub-tracting out to the expertise of the King Co Elections Board?

Posted by: Duffman on September 27, 2007 11:45 AM

2. Oooops, I meant 'sub-contracting' :o)

Posted by: Duffman on September 27, 2007 11:51 AM

3. Nearly 30,000 of the district's 45,000 students are eligible for transportation services.

Sort of sad that a city school system has to bus 67% of its kids. Apparently, no one lives near the schools, or no one attends the schools near where they live.

Posted by: SouthernRoots on September 27, 2007 12:09 PM

4. We were residents of the Bradford Woods School District, North of Pittsburgh PA. At the time it was among the best school districts in the country. Because of its excellence and reputation, private schhols were exceptionally affordable (that whole competition thing, you know)

ANY kid that attended a non-profit school within 15 miles of his/her home was ENTITLED to and received public school transportation.

Our kids were in Montessori and Catholic school and the district school bus picked them up in front of our house and delivered them back at the end of the day.

It was a rare example of tax dollars paid directly benefiting the tax payer.

I don't know if they still do it. I hope they do.

Posted by: Ragnar Danneskjold on September 27, 2007 12:27 PM

5. Many of us remember a time when walking and bicycling to school was a part of everyday life. In 1969, about half of all students walked or bicycled to school.1 Today, however, the story is very different. Fewer than 15 percent of all school trips are made by walking or bicycling, one-quarter are made on a school bus, and over half of all children arrive at school in private automobiles.

http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/saferoutes/

Posted by: octopus on September 27, 2007 02:31 PM

6. Yeah, but there weren't that many perverts living in your neighborhood.

Posted by: swatter on September 27, 2007 03:22 PM

7. software glitch? good thing it's a bus ride--more global warming but better than the $30mm+ screw up in software ooopse's at Seattle Schools--remember that one?

Posted by: jimmie-howya-doin on September 27, 2007 09:01 PM