NEW YORK (VINnews/Sandy Eller) – An Albany appellate court’s reversal of a previous ruling mandating busing for nonpublic school students on days when public schools aren’t in session will have yeshiva parents in the Washingtonville School District doing extra carpools, as well as creating more traffic on local roads.
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As previously reported on VIN News (https://bit.ly/3aC60wP), an Albany judge granted a preliminary injunction last August that required the school district to provide busing for approximately 600 Blooming Grove and South Blooming Grove yeshiva students on 21 days when busing wasn’t being provided to public school students.
That injunction was upheld in November, but four appellate judges reversed that ruling last week, saying it would lead to “unreasonable results,” reported the Times Herald Record (https://bit.ly/3muwcMI).
“The Legislature could not have intended to require school districts to transport nonpublic school students in the summer, on weekends, on state or federal holidays or on days when public schools are closed for weather-related or other emergency reasons,” wrote the judges in their decisions.
The school district had yet to provide busing for its yeshiva students on days when public schools were not in session, pending its appeal to the appellate court. The district has seen its nonpublic school population grow considerably over the current school year, with more than 800 students currently attending yeshivas and entitled to busing under state law.
The decision was applauded on social media by Greg Berck, assistance of government relations and associate counsel at the Council of School Superintendents, who categorized it as “a HUGE win!” on Twitter. But members of the yeshiva community had a different point of view of the ruling.
“How is denying kids a bus to school ever a win? How shameful is it, that people that are supposed to be advocating for the best of education, are so hateful that denying bus services to children is a win,” tweeted user Yaakov Jack Kaplan.
“Legal counsel for Council of School Superintendents calls it a ‘HUGE win’ that children will get less education. Is this because he hates education, or because the children are Jews? Either way, think about what ‘HUGE win’ means in this context,” observed Rabbi Yaakov Menken in another tweet.
Demanding bus drivers drive on holidays when they expect to have off is just one of the many legitimate reasons they hate us.
we should pick our fights better and seek to build bridges. Where is the real leadership? This isn’t 1979 anymore where we were lobbying for basic things like lunches and textbooks…
We don’t have bussing on national holidays in West Hempstead. We carpool on those days. Same thing when I lived in Bergenfield. Also, why are they attributing it to hate when the school district is obviously doing this to save money.
Sad that we have so many self hating Jews.
And btw, most bus drivers in Blooming-grove are Yidden, so they are asked to work on a few public holidays and get off on Yom Tov etc. Just like any other Yiddish company.
Blooming-grove subs it out to a Yiddish company, which won the bid, it’s just an argument of how many days they should pay for.
And as some have mentioned here, if all KJ kids would go to Public School it would be a burden on them as they all pay taxes but don’t use the school.
There’s so much more facts to say, but not much use mentioning all, as the haters don’t wanna know the truth, and the common sense Yidden know it already.
The destruction of the Beis Hamikdosh came because of Sinas Chinam, don’t get why there’s still some out there looking to hate other Yidden for no good reason, Unfortunately. Guess they’ll do Teshuva one day, hopefully soon.
I don;t get the full thing behind this fight. But I do say that it makes sense that for Sundays for example shpuyld not be a day when bussing is provided. There are certain days or hours when people work and the rest is overtime and off hours. We can’t expect people to service us when we have crazy hours. I get there is a chyuiv to learn torah and sundays to but what do you want from them? Same for late hours
On the other hand yes if its a regular working day such as say the month of July or PTA day then yes they should get bussing.
i think this ruling is just.
Good. They deserve their few holidays off. If they have a problem with it let them buy/lease their own buses and hire their own drivers. Isn’t that what they do anyway in borough Park, Williamsburg, Monsey etc ? What are they going to demand next? That the boys have male drivers and the girls have a female drivers? I wouldn’t be surprised one bit Genug shoin mit dem meshigaas.
I’m a resident in village of SBG
The hate in the comments is very painful, however what can you expect from non educated (on this matter) people.
I’ll try to give you the facts which for some reason non of you tried to get as it is easily available on the Internet.
Since the hasidic people moved in, the school taxes in the village (which is where the jewish people moved in) was raised substantially, however for the guys living in the town, nothing was changed, don’t forget non of the hasidic people actually send the kids to the local School, what they do is they send to private schools, and essentially all they get back from the taxes they pay for school tax is transportation, the school district has raised almost every single resident within 2 years since they moved in between a thousand and up to 6 thousand dollars, and the actual school has actually less kids then what they had before.
Now to the point of the drivers and the goyim getting angry etc. All they wanted was funding for the days that the local School have summer break, transportation itself gets done by a third party called orange county transit. Who also have non Jewish drivers but for the holidays in general there’s a separate entity lead by the united Jewish community and they take care of transportation in the holidays, however if orange county didn’t want to do the work in summer break they could always pay the ujc to do it.
Please stop with the hate on satmar, I think we have much more in common, than not. We might look follish to you cuz most of us lead busy and fulfilling lives, and don’t bother to make our appearance look great, but we’re actually very humane.
I wanted to let you guys know the facts here.
Much love: a satmar chusid trying to mind his own business.
I wonder what Mayor Pete thinks of this as the Transportation Secretary. He knows how to sniff out a racist bridge, so he must have an opinion on busses.
Or maybe Kamala who spent the entire election campaign crying about “bussing” how she was forced to take a bus to school (No idea what she was even talking about. She just kept repeating the story of a little girl having to take a bus).
It seems like the exact opposite of what yeshivos are fighting on another front. These beaureacrats can’t have it both ways! But then again, they are Democrats and so all is a-okay.
Why are Jews in Blooming Grove ?
Its a “huge win” when frum parents pay no taxes,have no kids in public school, get special ed and free lunch but don’t pay a cent. Everybody knows this.