Ed, I am an amateur radio tinkerer. I was playing with my scanner and I happened to listen to a conversation between the Trenton Board of Education office and their school bus drivers. I found out today that the bus drivers and aides are babysitters. If they make a stop and the parents aren’t there to pick up their kids, the buses don’t leave the children. People don’t have to be home because they know the city is going to watch their kids until they get home. How much are we paying the drivers and aides to do that?

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Just drive ’em around until they fall asleep, right? Works for babies. Then just drop them back at school in the morning. —Ed. Note