After clicking on several of the many, many links in that article, that without exception all lead to completely unrelated topics, I’m still left with the question: what was the reason kids were stuck on the bus till 10p.m.?
If instead of clicking all the links you had read the article, it’s explained:
The Associated Press reported that the school district spent $199,000 to hire the AlphaRoute engineering firm to create a plan that would cut the number of bus routes and stops. According to The Louisville Courier-Journal, the school district changed its bus schedule and start times this year in an attempt to cope with a bus driver shortage.
They were short on bus drivers, and they hired a firm to come up with a plan that would “make it work”. Specifics of the routes aren’t given, but I’d imagine that they were completely ridiculous for any kids to have still been on buses six or seven hours after school got out.
I don’t know about taxes in Kentucky but I’m assuming people in the state want to pay as little in taxes as possible. This is the result. How will they pay bus drivers higher salaries to attract them and hire more drivers without raising revenue via higher taxes? I’m going to make a wild guess that teacher and school staff pay is also terrible in Kentucky.
Also, the articles mention that school staff is waiting with the kids. So they are out at the bus stops till 930pm? Are they getting paid overtime for this? Do they have children of their own?
What have Mitchell McConnell and Rand Paul said about this situation in their state?
Jefferson County was one of two counties in all of Kentucky to go blue in 2020. It did so by a 60-40 margin.
Sounds like kidnapping