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Finally, there’s some good news out of the Bronx.
There was a time when the Bronx was known for literary giants like Edgar Allan Poe, James Baldwin, Mark Twain, Mary Higgins Clark and Stan Lee amongst others. Today, the Bronx has the lowest literacy rate across the five boroughs and, until recently, no bookstores.
Oh wait, not that good news. This good news.
Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday kids in the Bronx will be saying goodbye to diesel school buses and hello to 180 new electric ones.
Due to a $77 million federal grant, the Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure law is quadrupling the number of electric buses already present in the city. It’s also funding the nation’s first-ever electric truck charging depot to be placed at the Hunts Point Market.
Finally, kids in the Bronx will be going to school to learn nothing in electric buses. You know the ones that tend to break down if you look at them funny.
This is the second round of Clean School Bus grants given to the city. In 2023, 51 electric buses were added to streets. This latest round moves New York City schools one step closer to achieving a full green fleet by 2035.
Whew. Just in time for that 9% decline in enrollment. And those soaring test scores.
Students experienced setbacks during the pandemic but for the first time, test results are showing just how much learning has been lost.
The area with the lowest test results were in districts 7 and 9 in the south and west Bronx where about 70% of Black and Latino students failed to show proficiency on both exams.
But at least they’ll have electric buses. The lowest literacy rates and the shiniest electric buses.
Literacy rates under 100% for Normal students should not be tolerated ( Period). Basic math skills as well.
Children and young Adults ( “teenagers”) who attend ANY school for 7 hours a day, state systems, and their educators have ZERO excuses for not knowing, or teaching the basics until something sinks in. Knowingly Promoting children who can’t read to the next grade has to stop immediately.
The corruption of “the System” in covering up how bad it’s been for so long is finally evident. The “fake it ’till you make it”, and the lack of accountability needs to stop.
https://thehill.com/opinion/education/579750-many-of-americas-black-youths-cannot-read-or-do-math-and-that-imperils-us/
It’s almost as if certain people want the USA to re-adopt “Anti-literacy laws” via the back door, this time including the North:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-literacy_laws_in_the_United_States
Progressive’s priorities are predominantly putrid. I just hope these kids can read the EXIT signs because these new electric buses have a proclivity for battery fires.
As a practical matter, one interesting thing I have noticed around here, is that despite all the rhetoric about electric buses, since so much was invested in clean air natural gas buses and such, they are still being used. That was such a fad only a few years ago. Can’t expect public agencies to come up with the money to fund the latest fad 🙂
Change for change’s sake is lucrative for the politically connected. Nothing will ever be good enough, much less right.
Electric school buses should be exclusively of the ” short” variety. To reflect the intelligence of the purchaser.
Tragedy becoming farce. Another great observation from Daniel Greemfield.
Don’t worry, they won’t have the buses for long. Gangs will steel the copper from the motors’ armatures and sell it on the black market. So soon they’ll have neither an education nor the buses.
Our Nations schools under the NEA and the leftists run Dept of Indoctrination(Education)send Johnny to School in a unreliable Electric Bus which could catch fire to learn nothing at all but this Save the Rain Forests load of malarkey
“You know the ones that tend to break down if you look at them funny.”
You know this isn’t true. Show some minimal intellectual integrity.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/fox-news-world/electric-buses-pulled-london-streets-double-decker-bursts-flames-video
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/electric-bus-london-fire-putney-capital-b2484622.html
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/london-electric-bus-fire-putney-blaze-fire-bridgade/
https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/28/biden-administration-hundreds-millions-electric-buses-school-fire/
Show a little intellect, Mick. Daniel shot you down in flames almost exclusively using articles from your own country. There’s lots more from this side of the pond. Electric busses have been a ruinously expensive disaster, even in places that don’t get cold weather.
Those buses will be shiny until they are tagged.
It’s worse than anyone thinks. Look on youtube for electric buses. When they go wrong they are an unstoppable inferno in 3 seconds with no prior warning. Do you want your kids on one of those?
Go to the 10 min mark:
Back in 1993 NBC was caught rigging GM Pick-Up to Explode in Flames then the reporter AT
the scene Lied about it they got sued over it the Peacock got Plucked but has learned nothing
I remember that, lol. NBC used an explosive charge to blow the tire and launch that side up to make it flip over. Rollovers were the big concern of the busybodies. For a while they made trucks small, with the ground clearance of cars. They’d get stuck on construction job sites.
The good news is that when the tempertures drop to below 30 degrees in the winter and the buses won’t work, the kids will get a snow day…..PLUS, these kids will graduate and still get HS diplomas even though they can’t read, because not giving the a diploma would be racist……then they’ll get a job even though they still can’t read, because not giving them a job after giving them a H.S. diploma would be racist….