Alexander Russo is a journalist and former Senate education staffer.
“What the hell is the deal with school buses?,” begins this post from Fussbucket (Flying Children). “We spend the first five years of our kids’ lives breaking our backs buckling and strapping them down in the backseat of the car, only to send them off to sit in one of those giant yellow buses without even a rope to hang on to should things go awry.”
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