I just chaperoned a field trip for my son's class. He attends a public school in NYC. The school bus is a yellow bus run by the city. It is contracted as a DOE bus
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I've been trying to find a functional website for Varsity bus Company so that I can see if the complaint actually went through. Once i find out more, I'll update.
That does suck. But calling the DOE won't help. You need to talk to the bus lady instead. Just tell her what the bus driver was doing. She'll make sure it doesn't happen again, because she can speak to the driver directly.
Why not just ask the bus driver to turn it down if it was too loud? That makes it more a health, safety, and consideration-for-others issue and less of a political one. The person driving the bus doesn't get paid very much for one of the very worst jobs there is, so I'd try to cut them some slack.
As far as the content goes, isn't that just a learning opportunity? He's going to learn about Hell sooner or later, and it is better that he learns it from you rather than some kid on a street corner.
Meh. When I was in public elementary school in the late 1970s, they had us say the Pledge and the Lord's Prayer every day. It didn't hurt me any, or the other non-Christian kids who also said the Lord's Prayer as cheerfully as everybody else
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I grew up in a red state and we never payed in school. I take the separation of church and state very seriously. Children already get pigeonholed and stereotyped, they don't need someone bombarding them with negative messages like that. Anything that tells someone they are going to suffer if they don't follow a set religion is negative, and has no place in a school setting. This "we're right, you're wrong" attitude has GOT to stop - it sends the wrong message to children
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Um, you have to make this public. Tell the press. 311 wants personal information for the weirdest stuff--I just wanted to tell them that a hydrant was uncapped, and they wanted my phone number and my e-mail and all kinds of stuff.
311 told me I would not have to supply my personal information. It was the office of pupil transportation. I don't think the people at 311 are trained to do anything other than transfer calls and tell you they can't help you.
I'm going to check and see what's going on with the standard complaint route before I contact the press, but I really think it is just weird how so many people think this is a non-issue.
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If you have the spoons, please keep after this situation, and possibly take it to the blogs (beyond your own, of course) if it doesn't get addressed.
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As far as the content goes, isn't that just a learning opportunity? He's going to learn about Hell sooner or later, and it is better that he learns it from you rather than some kid on a street corner.
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The person driving the bus doesn't get paid very much for one of the very worst jobs there is, so I'd try to cut them some slack.
Yeah, no. Having a hard job doesn't give them the right to passive aggressively proselytize to a bus-full of young children.
Public schools are arreligious spaces, and that includes school-funded conveyances.
This was egregious, and was rightly called out as what it was.
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I'm going to check and see what's going on with the standard complaint route before I contact the press, but I really think it is just weird how so many people think this is a non-issue.
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