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Why is there even a school
Why is there even a school committee? It's nothing but a rubber stamp for the mayor.
If the school department is serious about saving money and teaching jobs, isn't it about time to end the failed policy of busing? Let the kids walk to their local schools. Millions of dollars are being spent on empty buses. Walking to neighborhood schools is safer for the kids and gets hundreds of diesel spewing vehicles off the road.
What neighborhood school would a kid walk to
if she lived, say, at the corner of Marlborough and Exeter streets?
you can still bus
those kids that live just out of reach of their neighborhood school. Most suburban towns do this.
Really?
You're concerned about the small number of kids who live in the Back Bay being inconvenienced? As the other commenter noted, there will always need to be busing, but to spend tons of money on mostly empty buses around the city and extending that service to private school students, is madness. If kids are stuck at failing schools in a neighborhood, then more money should be spent at those schools, not on busing. Busing is a huge bill to pay for school choice, especially considering that the school selection process still results in many families not getting their choice of schools anyways.
She's driven to school
by the driver, or, if they had to lay off the driver due to the hard times, then the nanny drives her.
Seriously.. Marlborough and Exeter? I think she might even be off to boarding school once she's reached a trust-fund-aware age of 7 or 8.
Not just the jobs
"In addition to cutting staff, the district is closing six school buildings at the end of this school year..."
So which school is it going to be? My kid's school?
Lots of shoes left to drop.
Which school to close?
Hopefully not Boston Latin. We don't need vampires infiltrating the other schools.
No, not Latin
Details are, I think, here.
The schools set to close
The schools set to close were selected with Chuck Turner's input and changes even after the pictures were released. Too bad for Brighton (Hamilton and Garfield).