SCHOOL BUSING SYSTEM IS BROKEN

Saturday's Waterloo Region Record carrys this story "Danger rides our school buses". Clearly when a number of children from three to four years old are let off unsupervised at the wrong stop, then something is badly broken. Are our highly paid brain trusts in fact half so clever as they would have us believe if they can't figure out that very young children are not responsible for their own safety and security; that it is adults who are. Is the system of contracting out bus servies to private companies at fault? Whatever, the responsibility still rests with the School Boards. Parents send their children to school to educate and prepare them for the world; not to intimidate and terrify them by abandoning them on the side of the road in a strange neighbourhood. School Boards fix this problem now and fix it right the first time. Maybe if you focused on your core mandate, that would be children not unions and politics, you might accomplish far more and have more public support.