From my perspective, perhaps the greatest symbol of America’s decline is the ubiquitous yellow school bus. It perfectly captures the dysfunctional essence of what is wrong with America today.
We have yellow school buses out here in the boonies.
They drive around empty—parents have figured out that the schools are enemy occupied territory.
What’s left out of the article is that this is the consequence of decades of county school consolidation and centralization that has been going on in WV. Reason given shrinking population shrinking school age population. Real reason ease and cost to administer and make it easier on the heavily unionized teachers and administration. Any creative solutions proposed to keep the schools local to the students & parents are immediately shoot down by the county and state educrat establishments.