School busing should be mandated

It's long past time when state lawmakers mandate busing for public school students. Otherwise, busing will always be on the top of the list of services first to be cut by school boards and administrators as they demand - as Newark Schools are always demanding - larger supplies of tax money.

"Vote our tax or your kids walk" is an age-old battle cry from tax-hounds who are paid, in part, to help with the welfare of children.

Strange that it can happen in the New Age of Nanny, in which government can't stop meddling in the most minute details of citizen lives in the pretense of protecting them.

Saving kids from the dangers of walking to school is the one place where government should stick its nose in because schools prefer to put kids at risk rather than to lose tax votes.

Could it be that state lawmakers in reality support this magic vote getter (wink wink). Or is it that they just don't care or just don't get it?

Today's streets are not safe for children to walk by themselves. Aside from the crush of traffic and the danger to any pedestrian therein, little kids also must be protected from today's multitude of perverts that live along the way, and child bullies as well.

It's been many years since my kids went to school, but even back then they were driven or escorted by their mom. In view of the dwindling safety of thoroughfares, it is all the more necessary today that adult protection/busing be provided.

Today's moms, most of them, work outside the home, voiding their ability to show up at the beginning and the end of school days. Therefore, kids are always going to be at risk as they are held hostage in one crusade for fresh tax money after the other.

It will stop only when state law mandates otherwise.