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The title of this article should be “IPS Weighs Disenfranchising Students to Save Money.”
Our children deserve every opportunity to receive an education. They don’t need another reason as to why they can’t attend school. Optimize bus routes and consolidate schools but don’t eliminate transportation.
Tough call – easy to see that the current system is far too inefficient/costly but valid concerns about student safety.
The root however is that huge numbers of parents will go out of their way to avoid having their kids in an IPS school. Rather than consider what might be scaring off the very families IPS most needs to attract, they have embraced the racial fantasies of BLM/1619 Project, thus ensuring households with the means to go elsewhere continue to do so. Making the state’s largest school system unacceptable for the city’s middle and upper class parents is a guaranteed route to permanent budgetary shortfalls and abysmal academic performance.
What “racial fantasies of BLM/1619 Project” are you referring to and how has IPS embraced them with their strategic decisions? I’m not sure I understand, I but would like to hear this expounded.
Ready for the Libs to lose their minds on this one, and they are already delivering (see above). Also, another garbage misleading headline on a Chalkbeat article. Transportation will be still be provided, but this headline gets more clicks.
I’m questioning what is misleading about the headline. IPS may get rid of bus service for thousands of students. That is the fact that they are deciding. Where’s the mislead?
And as far as “libs losing their minds” I see one concerned post about disenfranchising minority students and one post critical of the decision making of IPS leadership. It seems like you are the most upset so far.
More detail needs to be described. Who — which children and where — would be affected. While some may be able to use public transportation (i.e. bus in Indianapolis), some may not have reasonable access due to lack of sidewalks and that the majority of routes operate infrequently, every 30 to 60 minutes, which may require students to leave far in advance of school start times. But, those few routes that operate every 15 minutes or better, offer an option. Using public transportation for school trips was a typical action for many years in Indianapolis. Students paid a nominal sum. Those eligible for “bus passes” were elementary students who lived more than 1/2-mile from schools and mostly all high school students who often faced crosstown commutes, particularly after the school assignment scramble attributable to balancing and opportunity (read: desegregation).
That 500 bus stops have been removed is not a call for alarm. The content was lacking in the above article. Many bus stops were very close, 300 feet or less in some cases. The bus stop optimization program resulted in more orderly spacing of bus stops, approximately every 600 feet which is equivalent to a long block (such as from 29th to 30th Street along Meridian St, or from Irvington Ave to Ritter St along E. Washington). Such a distance is not unreasonable to negotiate givens that some student would face walks in excess of one-half mile, 2,640 feet.