NEW YORK (VINnews/Sandy Eller) – A New York State Supreme Court judge in Albany has sided with a group of upstate Chasidic parents, granting a preliminary injunction obligating their local school district to provide private school busing even on days when public schools are not in session.
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The Times Herald Record (https://bit.ly/3sPesOo) reported that the United Jewish Community of Blooming Grove, Blooming Grove resident Yitzchok Ekstein and South Blooming Grove resident Joel Stern filed suit against the Washingtonville School District and the New York Stated Education Department in July.
The lawsuit came six months after the school district refused to authorize busing for private school students during a week-long winter recess and included Ekstein and Stern’s allegations that they pay upwards of $14,000 and $7,000 in school taxes respectively and receive only transportation services in return.
By law, all students in New York are entitled to busing if they are attending nonpublic schools within 15 miles of their homes, but the Washingtonville School District insisted that the mandate only applied when public schools are in session.
Judge Peter A. Lynch sided with the private school parents, noting that the request for 21 extra days of busing for the 2021-2022 school year had been made back in June, allowing ample time for proper arrangements to be made for the district’s approximately 600 yeshiva students, most of whom attend the Satmar United Talmudical Academy and Sheri Torah schools.
He also categorized the refusal to provide transportation as a self-serving interpretation of the relevant legal statues, criticizing both the SED and the school district for overstepping their legal bounds by unilaterally adding “conditions and restriction” to the state transportation mandate.
Pursuant to the August 25th decision, the Washingtonville School District will be required to provide busing to the district’s private school students when they start classes on August 30th.
Sandy Eller
New York should change the law. In most other states, private school students ate NOT entitled to school bus service. Indeed, in some states, PUBLIC school students are not entitled to school bus service. Insofar as I am aware, in New York, the school districts are not rebursed for school bus service for the state, so even if yeshiva parents pay real estate taxes, the public schools lose out in the end, because they have to spend local tax dollars on busing without receiving any acillary benefits from ths state. Nevertheless, in order to be fair, local school districts should cancel all school bus service. That, or change the law. FWIW, with few exceptions, Washington, DC does not offer school buses for any their students.
What happens when the goyishe school bus drivers engage in a sickout on Christmas Week or refuse to work on Thanksgiving when Satmars (who in this case are acting in a borderline treasonous manner) decide to hold school? For obvious reasons, I get going to school during the last week of December. Going to school on Thanksgiving is inexcusable. Yes, I just opened a can of worms with my last statement. I don’t care.
Satmar always makes Goyim upset ironically the very false argument they make against Zionism. So they want Christians to work on Christmas?