"Your questions are legit, but that's what we pay our political class to figure out. "

Someone missed the entire point of this article. Or they're on the other side of it with the state.

Perhaps you'd like to volunteer your home, or the street in front of it ,for the kids who will be suspended from the schools they're forced on when they assault other students or children? Or would you prefer our "political class" continue to expand the practice of banning school suspensions, which would certainly keep them out of your hair?

The problem here isn't about the length of a damn bus ride. The problem is that dumping problems on people who don't have those problems doesn't fix them. It's the old "drop of sewage in a bottle of champagne."