Off The Bus, And Off The Wall
January 31st, 2007
Throwing Joel Klein’s’ favorite rhetoric back at him, the Staten Island Advance wonders who will be “held accountable” for the confusion and snafus involved in the Department of Education’s reconfigured school bus routes. The changes left some students without transportation and others literally out in the cold. “Under Chancellor Joel Klein, accountability has become very much the watchword in the Department of Education, but it’s usually applied to principals and teachers,” the paper writes. “But principals and teachers aren’t to blame for this bus fiasco…. So, we wonder: Just who will be held accountable?”
Meanwhile as the furor continues, Gothamist compiles an anthology of the school bus insanity, including the five-year-old who was given a Metrocard and told to tale a city bus (for some reason her older sister got to ride the bus). “We know saving money is important, but making kids endure hours of commutes or commutes by public transportation when subways or buses might not be close by is just nuts,’ Gothamist writes.
The problems affect more than student safety and comfort, writes the Post. “[Schools Chancellor Joel] Klein and his patron, Mayor Bloomberg, should realize that their sweeping reforms of the public-school system, now under way, can’t hope to take root and prosper if the public lacks confidence in the plan. Or, more to the point, in Klein and Bloomberg themselves. If they can’t see the folly of their school-bus debacle, how can parents trust them with dismantling and reconstructing the entire 1.1 million-pupil system?”
By Gail Robinson on January 31, 2007, 3:37 pmIn category: Education, Gotham City, Transportation
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