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Boston Metco students injured when bus overturns on 128
By adamg on Wed, 01/11/2017 - 5:45pm
A bus carrying 22 Metco students home to Boston from the Ephraim Curtis Middle School in Sudbury this afternoon overturned after a crash with a pickup truck at the Weston/Waltham line on Rte. 128, State Police and Sudbury School Superintendent Anne Wilson report.
State Police report ten of the students suffered minor injuries but that all were taken to local hospitals as a precaution after the crash at 12:47 p.m. The bus driver and a bus monitor were also taken to a local hospital for observation.
All the students were expected to have been released by late afternoon, State Police say.
Preliminary investigation by Troop H of the Massachusetts State Police indicates that the bus was traveling southbound, south of the exit for Route 20 (Exit 26), when a 2016 Chevrolet Silverado, also being operated southbound, collided with the bus. The impact caused the bus to veer to the right and roll over the guardrail onto an embankment leading to a stone ledge.
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Oy!
n/t
Insanity
Why bus kids all the way to Sudbury, there isn't a Boston school that can take them?
Do you know what Metco does?
If not, then, yes, I can understand the question and can answer it.
I Drove By The Bus
It's great that no one was seriously hurt. That bus made a huge jump over the guardrail.
It is not great that METCO exists on the basis of a racist assumption.
It is time to switch METCO away from a racial eligibility basis to an economic eligibility basis.
You have no idea what you're
You have no idea what you're talking about. Metco is for inner city children. Period.
Comma
who must be non-white. Period.
Did you really not know that? Metco is a racial desegregation program. It buses minority kids from the city (inner or outer, lol) to the overwhelmingly white suburban districts.
After establishment through the Racial Imbalance Act on 30 June 1965, METCO started with 220 black students. In the intervening years, efforts have been made to "have the Metco program reflect better the diversity of Boston Public Schools," which means that today only 73% of the students are African-American, 18.6% are Hispanic, and the remaining are multi-race, Asian, or other. But the participants are still all non-white, because non-white race is a condition for participation. A few white students may slip through by claiming they are Latinos.
There was a brief scare for the program in 2007, after two Supreme Court rulings abolished use of race in school assignments, but counsel to MDE opined that the METCO program was constitutional as it existed, and served a "compelling state interest" by refusing admission to white students. Nobody has yet tested that theory in court.
White vs. Latino
I know one family from West Roxbury with a white parent and a latino parent who is able to send their, for lack of a better term, white kid to a neighboring town thanks to METCO. Probably not what the intent was but let's face it, the school system here demands everyone act as a mercenary as your kid only gets educated once. I certainly have no problem with it. People like John Connolly who send their kid to the Trotter from West Roxbury are, by far, the exception.
METCO should be economically based, not race based simply because Boston is rapidly becoming more multi-cultural. I know several middle class families in town with mixed race parents and the idea that they get a different set of school options is just odd. I understand where the program came from, but I think an economic basis would eliminate these issues moving forward.
Does school funding follow these kids out to the burbs like it would with a charter?
Any white students in METCO claiming to be 1/32 Native American?
n/t
Probably a few
pretending their dads are cops.
METCO
METCO is a discriminatory, race based program that denies whites the same opportunities as mi otitis children.
Nice to see racism is alive and well on UHub.
n/t
Nice To See Petty Dismissiveness.
Over a rational, reasoned argument.
Let's see means testing!
You are so righ! It has been used
by folks wired into the system.
The majority of whom could
well afford to pay for there
Kids education.Metco is
a free ride for middle class
smart black parents.
F###### Hell
The only comments should be that we are very lucky that 22 students didn't die today. Students... kids... children... the same little humans that some of us tucked into bed a couple of hours ago. There won't be 22 funerals in the coming days.
The Kids Are OK
Nobody was seriously hurt. I was there 20 minutes after accident and EMTs and other personnel were quietly going about their business.
The kids were not hit by a comet nor attacked by those things from Edge Of Tomorrow. They are ok.
This board typically has a free flow of ideas which generally spin in a liberal direction.
I would not have made the comment above if anyone was seriously hurt.
That being said. It is weird that we have a program still in place that operates on a societal opinion that was made 51 years ago.
The assumption is that black and Hispanic children in Boston are all poor and need to be rubbed up against kids from Dover and Wayland to show them the light. That itself is a S uburban racist attitude.
However, if you are the child of two African Americans with good jobs who have a nice single family or two family in Roslindale you are eligible to go to Plymouth River Elementary in Hingham. If you are the daughter of a single white mother living on Section 8 in a crappy apartment on Florida Street in Dorchester, you have to take a chance on a system that is still suffering from rules put into place on the sins of people long dead.
That is the point of the post above. People today are paying for the events and actions that happened before my parents came to this country. It is not fair.
Dude schools were still being
Dude schools were still being desegregated in the 60s and 70s - within living memory of plenty of people, and well within the "affects generational wealth" range for people living today....
Won't someone *please*
think of the poor white children?
</Helen Lovejoy>
You're gonna bruise your tiny hands...
...if you keep clutching those pearls so hard.
I really wish I had the power to make you female, or gay, or African-American, or a Muslim, for an indefinite period of time to be determined by me, but not less than the time it takes you to understand the sheer ridiculousness of your crying about "not fair".
Love Your Revenge Fantasy
Seek help. I am sure that if your wishes were granted I'd still be in a better position in life than you. Sometimes hard work and individual action in your life is what makes your life better. Not predestination owing to your skin color, sexual, religious, or gender status.
What about not fair do you not understand?
A white male who grows up with a dysfunctional impoverished mother (for example) is far more oppressed and discriminated against than a comfortably middle class 'person of color', or a white female from a comfortably middle or upper middle class family. Why do 'progressives' hate white males so much? Why the hate for socioeconomically disadvantaged white males?
...sins of people long dead.
Not that long. One of those people has a bridge named after him leading into Southie. It's hard to trust a system that continually tries to roll back any gains people of color have made, sometimes by violence, sometimes by ballot or the judicial system (the gutting of the Voting Rights Act).
A middle-class black child's eligibility to go to school in Hingham does not negate the thousands of black and brown children who genuinely need the opportunity METCO provides. The "sins" you cite happened in my lifetime and I'm only 50 years old. We moved here from NYC just a year before busing started. If the School Committee had done the right thing, the city would not have had to suffer the consequences of the court order. But, they didn't.
Our children's futures are too important to take it on faith the powers that be will do right by us.
Why people are pissed.
I am a white emigrant to this country worked
a variety of blue collar jobs. Paid for my kids
to attend good schools.Work with a person
of color whose family income is far
greater than mine.His kids all attended
private schools,courtesy of METCO.
Never asked to reveal his family
Income. Are you kidding?
Private schools?
There are private schools in Metco? I don't see any listed, but, of course, my eyes could be going. And, of course, I'm sure you're well aware that white kids in Boston are historically way overrepresented at the city's own exam schools.
In any case, people never seem to realize that Metco is a two-way street. Minority parents in the program want their kids to go to a good school but the reason the schools are even in the program is because the towns that run them want their mostly white student populations exposed to minority kids.
Over-represented?
Ok, I'll bite. Are white kids over-represented at the exam schools or underrepresented at BPS in general? It's both, right?
Six of one
Half dozen of the other aren't at the exam schools because they're in METCO.
Rewind, reverse that
If you paid
for school, your kids
went to private schools.
If your friend's
kids
went through METCO, they went
to public schools.
(Is this really how they write prose where you're from?)
This is just to say
I have sent
my kid
to a public school
in the city
You will
probably
accuse me
of reverse racism
Forgive me
if I do not give
a flying fuck
Yeah
And the plums were great, suckah!!!