Kids were made to ride buses with bare balls exposed on the seats? WTF
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"this is bad because the kids are gonna spend all their time on their phone!" i say, as if I didn’t spend all my time on the schoolbus on my 3DS
They still don't have AC, just wifi.
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They did this during the pandemic and parked the buses in lower-income areas to help kids who had to do school from home and didn't have internet. There were a lot in my area and there were complaints because it wasn't enough for everyone.
You can't do nice things, everyone is going to complain no matter what.
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When I was your age, we had to ride the school bus for 15 miles on hot days with no AC so our balls stuck to the seats...in the snow.
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Yeah if there was anything that I thought kids needed it is more access to internet.
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No AC, no seat belts, windows wouldn't open, driver went at least 20 over speed limit most of the time. Yeah, was a blast.
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I got banned from the bus for a bit in grade 7, when I showed someone how I could light a strike-anywhere match on my teeth, like on tv.
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Do the kids all get devices too?
Apparently North Carolina, in their infinite wisdom, passed a law stating kids cannot use devices on buses (without teacher permission); as if a school policy was not enough. 🤷♂️
And every day I'd get picked on the entire ride by the 2 grade sixers at my stop until I showed up one day with a 2x4 and dealt with the problem.
So the busses already have shoulder-harness seatbelts for all students and roll cages in case of an accident?
Anakin stare
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Once at 5:30am Mr Mac stopped the bus on a train crossing slope, the bus started sliding backwards down the hill until someone at the back said “Mr. Mac, I think we’re on a hill.”
Mr. Mac also once swiped off someone’s side mirror and kept driving.
Absolute legend.
The poor Internet-starved children! Thank you for bridging this systematic inequality 🙏
Why were your balls out on the school bus?
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Trousers.
Why were your balls outside of your clothing?
As if they don't have mobile Internet already.
This place is the left wing the Donald I swear to Odin, nobody here checks anything and people just read a headline and have a reaction.
This article is from 2017, article link.
It goes on to say
Dubbed “the homework gap” by researchers, students without the use of reliable internet access at home find it harder to complete and submit homework assignments, further expanding the inequality already seen in low-income communities.
So this is to make sure all children have a more even playing field.
Why even post a screenshot of an 8 year old article.
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