Yesterday I asked Diana, the teacher's aide at kindergarten, what had been done about the situation with the older kids beating up younger ones on the bus.
"I talked to the driver. They had already filed a report." she said.
A report? Wait just a moment...
"Well, will that solve the problem?" I asked.
"It's the bus. There's nothing we can do."
I'm sorry? Look, these kids are required by the law to come get on that bus, so their parents won't be arrested for keeping them home from school. They are required by the state to get on that bus and get beaten up by older kids because the state refuses to put safety first?
Something has to be done. Only one piece of "good" news: the boy who got choked hadn't followed the rules, and the conflict was his own fault.
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