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Maintaining an entirely separate mass transit system for the educational system is a relatively large chunk of property taxes, costing an average of ~$500/stude
by mapt 2y ago
Maintaining an entirely separate mass transit system for the educational system is a relatively large chunk of property taxes, costing an average of ~$500/student.
- sanj 2y ago$2.50 per school day? Sounds like a deal. I've looked over my town's numbers: the big payments are teacher salaries. I'm happy to pay them and have great teachers. YMMV.
- mapt 2y agoThe major alternative would be using a public mass transit system which just happens to hit the school as part of its routes. Which is culturally and ideologically unacceptable for most of the US.
- sgerenser 2y agoIn most suburban and rural parts of the US, there is no existing mass transit system.
- supertrope 2y agoThere's some logistical problems to absorbing school busing into public transit. https://humantransit.org/2017/08/the-problem-of-school-transportation.html https://humantransit.org/2017/08/the-problem-of-school-trans...
- jyounker 2y agoWhat separate mass transit system are you talking about? In most places with school buses there is no mass transit of any sort.