Ohio's conservative legislatu requires buses for private school kids. Public school students have to find their own ride

[Demovictory9]

For about 2,000 students attending high school in Dayton, Ohio, there won’t be a bus in sight when they walk out the door for the beginning of the school year this week.

Ruben Castillo, an 11th grade student at Meadowdale Career Technology Center, is one of them.

Ohio law means that public school districts such as Dayton’s are responsible for transporting students who attend private and charter schools. When they fail to do so, they risk fines of millions of dollars.


A shortage of drivers and buses combined with the threat of fines, means that public school districts in Dayton and around Ohio find themselves relegating their own students to the back of the transportation line.

“I’m going to have to use Uber, and it’s going to cost me $25-$30 a day to get to and from school,” says Castillo. “In wintertime, when demand is higher, it’s probably going to be more.” At 180 school days over the course of a year, that’s thousands of dollars he is set to fork out from his own pocket.


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[mwmisses4289]

1. Wow, ohio, that is fucked up.

Should be other way around- public school kids get the busses, private school kids have to have parents take them. If they can afford private school, they can afford to pay for Uber or Lyft for their coddled darlings to get to school.

[dsc]

2. This has dated back years

I remember back when I was a kid, the public schools in my town had to stop offering half day every day kindergarten in favor of all day every other day due to busing issues while the private schools got to keep their half day kindergarten using our busses staffed by our drivers. This was in the 1970s. My dad was a speech therapist employed by the public district but many of his hours were in private schools paid by the public districts. Apparently it is even worse now but this has been a thing in Ohio for decades.

[JI7]

3. This is just so fucked up

What is the justification for something that looks so wrong ?

Are we missing something here ?

[dsc]

4. back in the day

it was justified as a return of the tax money paid by private school parents to the private schools.