HoCo School Bus Clusterf*ck

[tdt91]

Wow. I just calculated I used to walk 1.1 miles to/from school, and that is a 21min walk according to Google.
2miles would be a 40min walk. It is good excerize, but would not be fun in the driving rain or foot deep snow without shoveled sidewalks.

I grew up in IL, we walked to schrool if we lived in town. I was just 4 YO when I started Kindergarten (not because I was a smart kid). I walked to schrool by myself, crying all the way that first day. LOL It was roughly 1/3 mile or so but even in the rain, snow, whatever, we walked. Schrool wasn't cancelled for snow unless the principal could not drive around town. It would take more than 6 inches of snow for schrool to be cancelled. The buses may not have run for the country kids but they were expected to be brought in by the parents or older siblings. All the farmers had 4x4s of course. This was the 70s & early 80s.

 

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[smokey]

54 Howard County school bus routes canceled through the first week of classes

After Zum Services' cancellation, Howard County families are being asked to find their own transportation or students will receive excused absences.

www.baltimoresun.com

 

[MJD438]

Where I live in the northern part of HoCo has gone completely ******* bonkers because of this. What is normally a 21 mile / 30 minute commute through the northern reaches of HoCo and a short stint through AACo, has become a completely untenable 1.1hr commute. I am going to have to shift to a 0530 start time to avoid the trainwreck that is "we don't come into neighborhoods, only stop at the entrance on the closest double-yellow lined road / can't find our way to shit / all the parents must take their progeny via POV". It took me 15 minutes to turn left out of my neighborhood this morning because of the "my kid getting to the elementary school is more important than not blocking an intersection - YOU WILL NOT GET IN FRONT OF ME - Choose Civility".

Of course, HoCo won't admit that they did this by shutting the schools down, effectively killing their almost entirely contractor-based bus system during COVID and not realizing that the massive inflationary spike of the past couple of years was going to completely bork any attempts at a sane contract force.

Last evening, the "big yellow cheese" was still dropping off elementary school students (at the entrances to entire 100+ home neighborhoods) at 1730...WTF.

I get it - start of the school year; but, this isn't going to improve anytime soon. It is just going to go back to all the parents driving their crotchfruit to school every day, and putting even more traffic on the roads to sit idle. Great Job - Martirano and Ball - this is purely your green agenda, **** the citizenry, cock job.

One of my employees cannot get out of his house because of the parents in his neighborhood blocking his driveway from 0600-0900, and again from 1430-1730, to avoid their little pumpkins feet from touching pavement for any longer than 100 yds (his house is on the main neighborhood street, two houses down from the closest double-yellow road intersection).

 

[mpollan1]

If my driveway were to be blocked, I would be civil exactly once.

 

[Shamr0ck]

Nobody is asking the really important questions here... does this effect the trans agenda and DEI initiatives within the schools? I'm worried that with some of these kids being late to school they are missing out on some of these key skill sets...

Touché!


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[slsc98]

PSA: If you can’t do it now THEN START PLANNING IN EARNEST to;

G. T. F. O. ​

- of the sh*t circus called MD-Stan!

 

[pbharvey]

Calvin Ball throws the school system under the bus and says hey they run their own show, all HoCo Government does is give them money.
Hard to believe the school transportation budget increased 40% in the past four years though.

 

[Stoveman]

Calvin Ball throws the school system under the bus and says hey they run their own show, all HoCo Government does is give them money.
Hard to believe the school transportation budget increased 40% in the past four years though.

He is such an oxygen thief. If this had gone well he would be the first one in front of the cameras.

 

[Tungsten]

I don't live in Howard but if I did, I wouldn't care if the buses are on time or not. My major priority is that the bus drivers are a diverse group.

This is the way.

 

[JohnnyE]

I grew up in IL, we walked to schrool if we lived in town. I was just 4 YO when I started Kindergarten (not because I was a smart kid). I walked to schrool by myself, crying all the way that first day. LOL It was roughly 1/3 mile or so but even in the rain, snow, whatever, we walked. Schrool wasn't cancelled for snow unless the principal could not drive around town. It would take more than 6 inches of snow for schrool to be cancelled. The buses may not have run for the country kids but they were expected to be brought in by the parents or older siblings. All the farmers had 4x4s of course. This was the 70s & early 80s.

This was my Chicago suburban school kid experience as well. Google maps tells me that this kindergartner also walked 1/3 of a mile, alone, from home to school come rain, cold or snow. School only closed once during my K-12 years, and that was for a few days due to the blizzard of 1967. That's it.

On the morning in '76 or '77 when it was minus 26 degrees fahrenheit (and a wind chill of minus 76) we bundled up, lined up for the bus, (high school was two miles from home so we rode), and went to school. If you didn't go to school when it was cold or snowy, you didn't go to school much.

Get your candy-asses out there and develop your minds and bodies FFS. Life is hard and you need to prepare, including learning how to deal with suboptimal conditions.

 

[pbharvey]

He is such an oxygen thief. If this had gone well he would be the first one in front of the cameras.

Once the dust settles he'll be bragging about the green bus company the county hired.

 

[Wayneb]

Brought to you by the same guy who has suddenly & without reason decided to evict the Howard County Farm Heritage Museum from county property with 7 years remaining on their lease. Part of a larger green future?

 

[pleasant1911]

I wondered about that.

If the kid arrives late on the bus, he/she is not considered late.

But arriving by private means, even before the bus but after the bell means the kid is late.

Email states that the students will not be marked late. Some bud routes for some schools were cancelled.

 

[44 Bulldog]

This bus was in DC. Had the hazard lights on not the overhead reds.

 

[pbharvey]

Brought to you by the same guy who has suddenly & without reason decided to evict the Howard County Farm Heritage Museum from county property with 7 years remaining on their lease. Part of a larger green future?

When did this happen?
No more food truck Tuesdays?

 

[swinokur]

Don’t you love yellow school buses?

 

[RFBfromDE]

Don’t you love yellow school buses?

Yellow school buses remind me of segregation and Jim Crow.

Yellow, the color of racism, must be replaced.

Let's paint them white. Less expensive and easier to see.

 

[Melnic]

Calvin Ball throws the school system under the bus and says hey they run their own show, all HoCo Government does is give them money.
Hard to believe the school transportation budget increased 40% in the past four years though.

Deny, Difflect, Spin that is the way of the Democrats.
Say what he will but he is in charge and its his responsibility for the county as a whole. He should have better answers than that.
Likely he is spending his time trying to figure out what he will order for lunch tomorrow.
This is where the tax $ is going in HC

 

[MarkinMD]

Calvin drops the Ball, did you expect anything else.