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Yesterday, it was brought to my attention that approximately 50 Garvey Maceo High students crammed into a minibus. I can just imagine some would be seated in the laps of others, and some heads would be stuck under the armpit of others. Some might even seize the opportunity for certain sexual exploits.
How can we say we are poor and cannot afford to send our children to school, yet we can send them on a minibus, which is far more expensive than the school bus service provided by the government? I am certain that the slackness that takes place on these minibuses cannot take place on these buses provided by the government.
This is another example of children and their parents who do not believe in discipline and order, and they have paid dearly for their folly. The case of Buju losing her life in Montego Bay is another example of people supporting slackness and having no respect for authority nor law and order.
The government should not pay for any PATH students who do not take the government's school buses. If they can take these private buses, then they don't need to be on the PATH programme.
Below you will see excerpts of the TVJ news about this matter.
I can just imagine how this driver might have reacted to the police if he was stopped on the road. He probably would not stop. Can you imagine about 50 students packed in a bus that is supposed to hold 28 students?
The driver and/or the owner of this bus should pay for the damaged median and also for all medical expenses at the hospital.
This is another case of a country where indiscipline reigns, and many support the indiscipline. The parents are fortunate that no one died.
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Only "top a top students" travel in that bus others joined in as
ReplyDelete"wanna bees".
Read the game and school culture nuh people.
Bet you the bus has "wikid musik" and anything goes yuh si mi.
Good morning Mr Derby I agree with everything you have said . Parents are to be blame they are the ones in charge or suppose to be in charge of those children.
ReplyDeleteOne media house that is struggling now to survive along with the Opposition went to war against the school bus system and sought to politicize its introduction. As a people, we need to know when to put aside partisan pettiness for the good of the nation, especially where our children are concerned. Some people are impressionable and can be easily and readily manipulated by persons "betterr off" than them and who can afford to have their own children dropped off and picked up to and from school in air-conditioned comfort. We all need to learn to think for ourselves. This is a sad development, but I don't blame the driver, I blame the parents.
ReplyDeleteIs this the Coaster Bus Mark Golding was promoting instead of the School Buses that are designed for safety. He has no respect for Jamaica's Children. How can we trust him and his people in his Party strongjold 💪 to do anything but put personal economic benefit ahead of the safety of Jamaica's children.
ReplyDeleteHow can you blame a bus for an accident? It must be a person.
ReplyDeleteI am so sick and tired of the perpetual partisan oneupmanship. I wish the media houses would stop carrying stories of he said she said and focus on he did she did (not he would have done and she would have done - given our track records it’s no wonder we cannot tell the difference).
Our children and indeed all of us as citizens deserve better. Can we please focus on doing what we say we are going to do - that’s integrity- and stop playing partisan politics and greedy me me me with our nation’s future.
The driver of the school bus must be made to answer. The parents of the children must be made to answer, the children must answer too if parents direct them one way and they go another way. How can we nurture responsibility and accountability if we canning see things through green and red party lenses? How long are we going to talk talk talk about the music on public passenger vehicles and do NOTHING about it? There was a time when buses did not want to carry schoolers - what has changed so that not a but is stuffing more then the legal number of schoolers into a bus. Do we need an AI sign on buses so that police can stop them when they are overloaded.
What’s the benefit of a telecom provider boasting about the coming 5G when most of us brains are barely limping at 1G? We mus can do betta dan dat!!!!