El Paso-area schools to close for pope's visit to Juarez

MySA ^ | Jan. 20, 2016 | AP

[bgill]

El Paso-area school districts will cancel classes Feb. 17 for Pope Francis' visit to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, a city directly across the U.S. border.

The Ysleta, Socorro and El Paso school districts cited finances, safety concerns, staffing challenges and transportation issues as reasons for closing.

A portion of César Chávez Border Highway will be closed during the papal Mass, and district officials say the city's bus and policing resources will be strained.

[bgill]

Can we close the border and keep them over there? Many Mexican kids cross over to the US to ride school buses to US schools.

[choctaw man]

He will spread love to the cartels.

[cloudmountain]

Sounds like a PLAN to me.

[WMarshal]

What? Is the Pope looking for hookers, cock fights, drugs, murder-for-hire, or Fast-and-Furious guns?

[SaveFerris]

Global Warming must have caused all those headless bodies they found there. /Al Gore

[txrefugee]

Thanks to an ‘80s SCOTUS ruling,Texas is forever stuck with educating Mexican children who are in our border schools, so this is no surprise.

[RightGeek]

Great idea - go home to see Pope Frankie. Don’t come back.

[Feckless]

officials say the city's bus and policing resources will be strained

SCAT - Sun City Area Transit or...

Shuttling Chicanos Around Town

[proust]

Haven’t heard that one in ages, greetings fellow El Pasoan!

[Mark was here]

When I went to grade school, Rusk in El Paso, we had to walk. The only time a school bus was at the school was for something like a field trip. Hard to believe that was around 50 years ago now that I think about it. I feel old all of a sudden.

[Feckless]

Was stationed Ft Bliss 78-81, no idea why that stuck :)

[proust]

Weird, I heard it from someone that worked at Beaumont in the early 80s. Very local obscure joke!

[Feckless]

I think I saw a SCAT bus tagged (graffiti) with it.

[Bigg Red]

+1