Burnt Steak
All students living within 2.5 miles of the school will be denied access to school busing as per school monitor.I know you think low income students are going to walk up to 2.5 miles in rain , snow and boiling hot temperatures just to go to school. The problem is, it’s not the yeshiva students who won’t go to school, rather it’s the public school students who are lower income, and even with busing, they are more likely than higher income students to drop out of school.
Yeshiva Parents will drive their children to school but putting another 5 to 15 thousand cars on Lakewood streets will create traffic jams. Which may prevent emergency vehicles from getting from one part of Lakewood to the other. People living near the yeshivas will be unable to get in or out of their driveways, because parents will be double parked for blocks around the yeshivas in the morning, waiting to drop off their children, and in the afternoon, when they are picking them up, as the school parking lot wasn’t designed for this volume. This will lower property values and many of these home owners who are not orthodox will sell their houses. This will result in lower property values, lower property taxes and fewer students in the public schools. All of this will affect public school funding.
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