In recent weeks, reimaginED has published several posts that address the growing concern nationwide about public school transportation – how a perfect storm of challenges is confounding families as well as school districts on how to get children to and from school. (See here, here and here.)
As many pundits have observed, the most robust education choice programs will fail to serve families if those families lack efficient transportation options.
This afternoon, we bring you a story from Columbus, Ohio, about how one parent, frustrated when his children missed a day of school because their bus failed to show up, took matters into his own hands.
He decided to use his family’s limousine service to pick up 25 children in his neighborhood and give them a ride to school.
“Everybody always wants to say, ‘Let’s help the community, let’s stop this violence,’ that type of stuff, but I feel like a big step of stopping the violence is getting kids to school instead of letting them skip school and go out and get into trouble,” said Sean Rogers Jr.
You can read the story and watch a video interview with Rogers here.
