Earlier this week the Department of Education (DOE) implemented a new busing plan that left many students literally out in the cold. Many youngsters (even those as young as seven years old) were left with no transportation or a metro card and told to hoof it as best they could. Mind you, if it were your idea for your second grader to take three buses to school on their own, folks would be accusing you of child abuse.
The DOE operates as if it were running a business rather than trying to educate the youth of this city. They're treating individual youngsters as little more than interchangeable cogs that just need to make it to the right hole, with no acknowledgment of the impact on parents and children.
Sorry DOE, saving money at the expense of children's safety is not the way to go.
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