Busing

Neighborhood schools are a longstanding American institution. The idea of busing the students elsewhere has long been controversial, and there's a long list of other resources that can be reviewed covering from the 1950s to 2009.

In Pennsylvania, (correct me if I'm reading something wrong) the law is that elementary students can walk up to 1.5 and secondary up to 2.0 miles.

This leads to the email I received:

Good evening,
I just had a thought. Now that MR Reiter is closed, people living down in parts of Ward 1, by Post Rd., etc. are more than 2.0 miles from their school. This requires that the district institute bussing by law. We have provided the shuttle from Manor Park to MR Reiter in the past, because it is between 2 school buildings AND nobody was >2 miles from MR Reiter. That same argument won't hold up if we are no longer using MR Reiter. This will be an astronomical expense for the district, as they will also have to provide bussing to all private school kids to any academic institution within 10 miles (including NJ). If someone were looking for an argument to build new on the property of MR Reiter, or do a proper renovation, this would be it. Like I said, just a thought...........

Anyone want to add anything? I have reservations about this argument because the consolidated K-12 building would have achieved the same thing that we have today, and I don't think I saw busing mentioned in that plan.

I'm thinking this would also be a huge drain on the savings from farming out the high school students as well.