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The Illinois Board of Education submitted a grant application to the EPA and received an award of $19.9 million for the purchase and implementation of 70 new "zero emission" school buses for use in eleven districts in the Prairie State. The funding is meant to also cover the expense of two employees that will assist in their adoption.
The concept of hauling students to school and back isn't necessarily legitimate in itself so electrifying the process doesn't make as much sense as eliminating it in its entirety. The warped belief in economy of scale seems to mean that building gigantic schools through district consolidation is a more effective methodology than the once common rural one-room school house. Perhaps neither makes for the best education.
Already public schools have accepted the role of lunch providers. Ostensibly this is meant to assure that children in poverty get at least one square meal a day. Suspicions could be that school cafeterias are meant to save Mommy or Daddy a few minutes in the morning turmoil. Or that positions in the school cafeteria workforce are an important economic benefit to a small town. Now many school cafeterias serve lunch year around.
What is the logical endpoint of this line of thinking? Should public schools be responsible for adequate clothing of students? If little Johnny shows up with a ragged hoodie should he be called into the office of the Clothing Monitor and be fitted with a new North Face jacket so he won't be shunned by his more affluent classmates? Cleanliness is one of the most cherished attributes of post-Puritan culture. Maybe students should be examined for dirty fingernails or worse before being admitted to the classroom. Or simply run them all through a shower.
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