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The school bus is disappearing. Welcome to the era of the school pickup line. (wapo.st)

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But if their parents can’t interrupt their shift at the factory or the Fuddruckers to pick up kids, what are the children of less-fortunate parents doing? Given that researchers have found a strong link between lower socioeconomic status and high absenteeism, it seems likely that some of them have not gone to school at all.

Applied economist Michael Gottfried, now at the University of Pennsylvania, called this idea perfectly plausible. And he would know: His research into the causes and consequences of absenteeism in America’s schools has been cited just about everywhere. It also has transformed him into an unabashed bus booster.

“I believe the bus is a lifeline for students,” he told us.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I'm so tired of life in this country just consistently getting worse. When the hell are we gonna reach a breaking point where the people revolt against the effects of unchecked capitalism, because I feel like we're getting there. (And no, I don't mean January 6th style where we get a dictator instead)

People can barely get by and they're being attacked on all sides, politically threatening democracy, (thus threatening your safety), threatening what little amount of shitty health insurance we're given, cutting wages, cutting jobs, crashing the economy multiple times to get bailed out by the tax payer's, threatening people because of the color of their skin, or because their religions n is the right one and yours isn't, denying science, denying climate changed letting a global pandemic run wild because it might kill your political opponents more that live in dense cities. The list goes on, and on. I'm so tired of this shit and the dumb ass people that support it.