Jefferson county schools are a mess by any metric available. The bus system is a nightmare. They’ve got kids getting bused all over the place and spending hours going to and from school. It has been suggested, I don’t know if it’s ever going to happen, that the district be split up into about 5 normal size districts. This wouldn’t make them any less leftist nor the administrators any more competent, but it would make districts of a size more manageable.
A few years ago it was published that upwards of 300 plus administrative positions had base salaries of well over $100,000 each, but some being a lot more. The school district is pissing away money at a prodigious rate. And the board looks like a meme of dei.
Are they not either the last or 1 of last 2 cities in the entire nation that uses forced busing?
My dad taught his career in JCPS at Butler high school. For a city school it wasn’t too bad. Until busing.
Then they started taking the inner city ghetto type kids out and busing them to the school and place went to hell in a hand basket. Scores plummeted. And the discipline stories I could tell you. They started getting 19 year old men with attempted murder felonies, sexual assault etc walking around in the halls with fresh 14 year old girls from the suburbs. You can imagine what that caused.
Conversely my 1st cousin was bussed to an inner city school. a teacher asked him if a thug had been talking in class and he foolishly admitted to the teacher he had been. They (several) jumped him in the hall and beat him, kicked him in the eye socket so his eyeball was bulging out. He went to the hospital but recovered.
The worst of all is the FORCED busing, making kindergarten kids get up TWO hours early so they can be made to go mix with black children when their parents choose to buy a house in a subdivision of their love. Literally taking rights away from parents to fulfill social Justice goals. The city hasn’t had a Republican mayor for a lifetime. I have an old friend that lives in Texas now, a real tough guy. He was bussed to an inner city school and recalls taking a huge book bag with all his things and literally running from class to class and not using the rest room because the black kids in gangs would hunt white kids to steal, beat up and intimidate in the locker areas and bathrooms.
I was born in that city and hate it now.
Loserville-Liberalville—Loutville-Leftistville=Louisville
PS
These are all older stores —20plus years , I dont know if things are any better.