Do you want hundreds of 8 year old little public school children, living 1.9 miles or 2.9 miles from the public school, to have to walk across six lane streets and other dangerous streets if they don’t qualify for mandatory bussing? Should the public schools start charging hundreds of poor minority families for bussing they can’t afford (and can’t afford to take off from work for)?
Special services is mandated by law. And legally mandatory bussing cost more, for private school children, than special services.