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    “I’m lucky that my 80-year-old father is going to help out taking them to school. But I ask the state [politicians] – please come up with a solution. We’re going to lose a whole generation of kids if this continues.”

    Here’s an idea STOP VOTING IN REPUBLICAN POLITICIANS. They don’t care about you, all they care about is getting the most money for their real constituents. The obscenely wealthy and corporations.

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    Wait so Ohio taxpayers are paying to get kids to private schools but the schools that Ohio taxpayers are paying for the students don’t have a ride‽

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      What makes you think private schools aren’t getting any public money?

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          Ohio.

          Ohio is now even Gen Z/A slang for roughly ‘cringeworthy, awkward, weird, bad’.

          https://www.merriam-webster.com/slang/ohio

          It is literally a meme how shitty Ohio is.

          My favorite, older example of this:

          Back in the 90s, early 00s… Ohio was far and away the state that the most US Astronauts came from, of those who made it to space.

          Why?

          Because Ohio sucks so much, it makes you want to literally leave Earth.

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              Hey, oh, way to go Ohio…

              (It will never stop being one of the most ironic things that has ever happened, in my mind, that Rush Limbaugh used this as his intro music for like 3 decades… basically everything lamented by this song was dramatically accelerated and worsened by basically everything he ever said or did, everyone he supported.)

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            It is literally a meme how shitty Ohio is.

            You can say this about a dozen US states.

            Ohio’s notable because of the sheer number of people who still live there, unlike New Hampshire or South Dakota or West Virginia or Oklahoma. But its right in line with your Florida and Texas and Pennsylvania, in that its cultivated itself as a lodestone for exploitable ecology and economic activity. And now it has to fight tooth and nail to keep the increasingly irate large public workforce submissive and pliant in order to impose the next indignity.

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              But their point is that kids literally use the word “ohio” in speech when they need a word that means “cringeworthy, awkward, weird, bad”. Unlike the other states.

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      It makes sense if you consider things in the context of greedy corrupt government officials getting bribed by wealthy corporations/people.

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        I mean, it still doesn’t make that much sense (I feel like almost every child on those busses would be able to say which side is right or wrong in this case), but I see where you’re coming from

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    What the actual fuck. So first, the politicians force the busses to prioritize transporting the rich kids, forcing the poor kids to have to use public systems (if they even exist) or, worse, services like Uber. The schools themselves tried to get bus passes for their students, but then a student was shot in the head at a bus stop and killed, so now the way the politicians solve the problem they created is making it illegal for schools to buy bus vouchers… because obviously it was the fault of the schools, right?

    This is just another convoluted way in a history FULL of convoluted ways to try to kill off the poor, the disenfranchised, and the non-white

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      it was always going to be diverting tax money, vouchers to private schools which ends up being laundered back into republican campaign funds anyways.

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        Who would have thought a country that literally started a war because some rich white assholes did t want to pay taxes would do this.

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    Sounds like the districts need more busses & drivers as demand isn’t being met.

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      In this case, I think it’s less about the number of drivers (though, admittedly, if there were an infinite number of qualified bus drivers, this problem wouldn’t exist) and more about the ludicrous and frankly-insulting laws that have been passed directly to benefit those who already have more benefits in life than the rest of us