It's nearly September and that means the start of the 2024-2025 public school classes is just around the corner. This annual event brings with it a tradition in which the disappointed children of tens of millions of families around the United States will pack their bookbags and lunch containers, stepping out in the morning to await the arrival of a big, yellow school bus that will haul them back and forth. But for well over 100 families living in the Stoughton Public School District just south of Boston, those children will be waiting for a long time because there are no buses coming. The families were recently informed that some buses had to be reassigned or recalled. Meanwhile, do you know who will still have bus service available? The children of illegal migrants living in local shelters. It's enough to make your blood boil. (Fox News)
Parents and students of a school district outside of Boston were informed last week that they would be without school bus service, citing a lack of funding and a shortage of buses.
The 150 students at Stoughton Public Schools will have to find a new way to get to school ahead of the academic year's September 4 start date, the Boston Herald first reported. The news comes at the same time that the state has started paying for buses for the migrant students of the more than 200 migrant families that recently moved into their community.
"Unfortunately, for the upcoming 2024-2025 school year, 150 secondary students who signed up to ride a bus were not able to be placed on a bus," a letter sent to parents from Superintendent of Schools Joseph Baeta read.
So the children of legal, tax-paying citizens in the Boston area will have to find some other way to get their kids to school. They were given very little notice of this change. The parents who work outside the home are going to be scrambling to find alternate transportation options, likely driving up their overall cost of childcare even further. At the same time, the children of people who are in the country illegally, pay no taxes, and frequently do nothing but suck up resources will have their kids delivered to and from the schools each day at no cost to them.
The school district is claiming that the buses were canceled because of "a lack of funding and a shortage of buses." Did they just realize this in the past few weeks? Have they ever heard of planning ahead? Taking care of the region's public school students should be among the local government's highest priorities by default. If there aren't enough buses, order more. If you don't have the money for them, cut something else out of the budget and order them anyway. Local governments have been dealing with the same issues for all of living memory and they seemed to manage to figure out a way to get by. But now, in 2024, it's suddenly become a Herculean task and your response is to throw up your hands and tell the parents that it is their job to figure it out?
The state is supposedly providing the money to pay for the buses for the 200 migrant families. Where did that money come from? Shouldn't the voters be demanding to know how those funds were prioritized to care for the children of hundreds of illegals while their own families were left to fend for themselves?
It would be easy enough to blame this situation on the illegal migrants for taking up local resources in yet another way. If we wish, we could blame Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for creating the border crisis in the first place. But when it comes to the greater Boston area, the Stoughton Public School District, and the question of school buses, there is another underlying cause to be examined. Consider the following easily researched facts. In Stoughton, Massachusetts, Thomas Calter is the Town Manager, a Democrat. He's been banging around in public offices for decades. Michelle Wu, a Democrat, is the Mayor of Boston and has been since 2021. She won her race with nearly 70% of the vote. The Governor of Massachusetts is Maura Healey. In her election bid, she carried every district in the state. The area is represented in Congress by Stephen Lynch, another Democrat. He's held his seat since 2001 and almost always receives twice as many votes as his opponent. If these people actually wanted to fix problems like this, they could have done so at any time. But the people of the southern region of Boston keep electing the same people over and over and over again. So who is really to blame for this alleged lack of buses at the end of the day? Just some food for thought.
