Some schools in the U.S. have resumed in-person classes, but other public school districts are still making students stay at home. One such district is in Fairfax County in Virginia.
No classes at school means there’s no need for bus drivers, but it sounds like they’ve found a temporary fix for that “problem”:
Wha?? One of the largest school districts in the country is justifying keeping bus drivers on the payroll by…having them drive empty buses along their usual routes. @hannah_natanson: https://t.co/aspSzU9yvZ pic.twitter.com/qfFdII2rcu
— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) September 11, 2020
To keep bus drivers on the payroll, Fairfax County Public Schools directs some to drive empty buses along old routes https://t.co/aZIxmehjMg
— Post Local (@postlocal) September 10, 2020
Well that seems cost-efficient! *Eye roll*
Here is the Fairfax County school district's green sustainability plan: https://t.co/Me1n8okKhT.
If someone can find in it "running empty buses in one of the most congested metro areas in the country at a time when the climate crisis is more apparent than ever," please holler.
— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) September 11, 2020
Can't make it up. https://t.co/gP4CPS0LC0
— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) September 11, 2020
Are the climate change alarmists going to have questions about this one?
People are being taxed out of their homes for this. https://t.co/E3X9glXCna
— Donny Ferguson ? (@DonnyFerguson) September 11, 2020
Beep beep all aboard the bureaubus https://t.co/tfQx1c2IcE
— Second City Bureaucrat (@CityBureaucrat) September 11, 2020
Such good stewards of the public money. Keep electing
Democrats, folks.— kerry dougherty (@kerrydougherty) September 11, 2020
“Government can be just as efficient as the private sector!” https://t.co/HOMGIIPiI2
— TheFederalist (@ChapelHill_1776) September 11, 2020
.Marvelous. You really can't make this up. Tell me again about the "climate crisis," @fcpsnews @fairfaxcounty!@GerryConnolly
— Tripp Whitbeck (@trippwhitbeck) September 11, 2020
