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Schools, public and private, generally employ their own bus drivers.

So it’s not like the anybody at the city transit office is saying “let’s divert resources from public schools to private schools.”

They’re saying “we don’t do schools at all, because the only schools we would be providing services for are private, and we don’t want to encourage people to go to private school.”

Wealthy private schools often have their own buses. Less well off ones, don’t.

So it isn’t even about benefiting the poor over the wealthy.

Catholic schools generally have their own buses, while schools affiliated with historically black churches don’t.

Regarding why I take it personally, the condescending and hostile attitude of city officials make it clear it is personal.

This is specific to where I live now. I’ve lived in places like the Bay Area and New York, and this attitude doesn’t seem to exist.

>>pyuser+(OP)
People from Europe don't realize just how local so much of this stuff is. Where I am (small town America), the public school system pays for the school busses, and they handle all the schools in the district, even the private ones. There's a small charge if you want to use them for non-school children (think: daycare).

This setup may or may not be replicated in the next town ten miles away.

And until you've lived your poor life you don't realize what an absolute ass it is to have transit schedules continually changing on you; and the bus may change when it comes but when you have to be at school or work won't, and so the moment you save enough for a car ...

>>bombca+Xy
Yeah American government is "basically whatever people decide to do." We build the "system" out of what people are doing, not the other way around.

>>pyuser+(OP)
So the city is saying "schools have their own bus services. Let's prioritize areas and groups that don't."

That makes perfect sense in a constrained system. You sound like you are looking to be the victim no matter what. Without doxxing yourself, care to provide some specific info so we can better understand?