Kids were made to ride buses with bare balls exposed on the seats? WTF
Yeah, 80s and 90s were wild! 🤣
skirts are a bitch like that
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You were supposed to wear underwear under…
Under where?
Back then we wore boxers that were longer than shorts are today.
Clothing used to suck quite a bit. The 00s ushered in a lot if new tech. Pants hide erections now.
Wow they really have installed a popup blocker in everything haven’t they!
Natural fibers are still better despite the bomershame
Whaaat?! We literally had a musical genre called Baggy. 2000-ish fashion brought drainpipes back in (except if you were Fred Durst).
Yea dude before we had internet in our shorts.
They did this during the pandemic and parked the buses in lower-income areas to help kids who had to do school from home and didn’t have internet. There were a lot in my area and there were complaints because it wasn’t enough for everyone.
You can’t do nice things, everyone is going to complain no matter what.
Just so we’re clear, the thrust of your complaint is that the government didn’t do enough to ensure equal access to education for everyone and that’s okay because people shouldn’t have such high expectations of The Greatest Nation on Earth?
The greatest who with the what now?
Not my complaint. I wish we had local hotspots setup by the cities, but it gets constantly voted down. Shouldn’t take a pandemic to support people.
No it’s that they didn’t ensure equal access to the internet which is different sort of.
If you mandate that all education will be online and don’t provide equal access to the Internet, no it is not.
Hey now let us convince ourselves things are fine, thank you.
That’s actually really cool. That’s a lot different than I think what most people thought this story was about.
Same here they were mobile hot spots for rural areas. So kids could attend virtual lessons.
Yeah if there was anything that I thought kids needed it is more access to internet.
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Seriously what are they thinking for that? It’s going to bridge the gap? What you mean of students who don’t have Internet? So what is the honest thought, they’re going to do homework on the bus? Best case they’re the poor kids who have to do homework on the bus. That’s the best case. Then what busses do these people remember where it was conducive to doing schoolwork on the bus?
It’s 1000% asinine and a huge waste of money.
What I really think is that it’s a few helicopter parents who saw their kids go offline for 5 minutes on the ride and panicked.
I don’t know how they are actually used but I doubt it’s used the way you think it is. That would be pretty useless. It’s mobile WiFi. They probably go park in places that need WiFi. Don’t know the range but people can sit on the bus if needed. Not ideal but it’s also better than nothing.
That said, the state of public education is terrible and the government seems insistent on making it worse. Some places require some homework to be done online due to remote learning days. Which made sense during the pandemic but don’t anymore. Not everyone has internet and stuff like this hurts the ones that don’t.
Don’t you know we need to train these kids how to work during their commute? /s
Hour+, each way. I was the first kid on, last kid off each day for seven years. I do not recommend.
Is this particular image recent? I feel like I remember something like this around covid lockdown, as a “park the wifi bus in a lower income area so that students without home internet can connect to online classes” thing.
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“this is bad because the kids are gonna spend all their time on their phone!” i say, as if I didn’t spend all my time on the schoolbus on my 3DS
They still don’t have AC, just wifi.
They asked for better buses, and Wi-Fi is by far the cheapest “upgrade”
I was in a school bus once and the driver ran out of gas…so he syphoned gas out of a car in the parking lot.
Old Man: “Hey, that’s my gas!”
Bus Driver: “Children are our future, and you’re the past old man!”
“The future is NOW, old man!”
War driving
So the busses already have shoulder-harness seatbelts for all students and roll cages in case of an accident?
Anakin stare
When I was your age, we had to ride the school bus for 15 miles on hot days with no AC so our balls stuck to the seats…in the snow.
Uphill both ways!
No AC, no seat belts, windows wouldn’t open, driver went at least 20 over speed limit most of the time. Yeah, was a blast.
Sounds like your bus driver was Otto.
More like Miss Crabtree from South Park.
Wait, I thought it was mr. crabtree? Was there a sister? We are talking about the school teacher of the main four, right?
I got banned from the bus for a bit in grade 7, when I showed someone how I could light a strike-anywhere match on my teeth, like on tv.
It’s weird they banned you and not the matches
Stupid bans are part and parcel, ain’t they? I got banned for hitting back when someone dumped milk on me.
Apparently North Carolina, in their infinite wisdom, passed a law stating kids cannot use devices on buses (without teacher permission); as if a school policy was not enough. 🤷♂️
And every day I’d get picked on the entire ride by the 2 grade sixers at my stop until I showed up one day with a 2x4 and dealt with the problem.
Do the kids all get devices too?
The poor Internet-starved children! Thank you for bridging this systematic inequality 🙏
Once at 5:30am Mr Mac stopped the bus on a train crossing slope, the bus started sliding backwards down the hill until someone at the back said “Mr. Mac, I think we’re on a hill.”
Mr. Mac also once swiped off someone’s side mirror and kept driving.
Absolute legend.
