Turkey Day is a very big holiday for non-Jews. It starts their family holiday season. I don’t think they have to bend over backwards to prove how important it is to them. 99.99% of school employees in America expect there to be certain holidays they dont work out of consideration to them, not whether other decide it’s important to them or not.
This situation is being handled to show a gross lack of understanding and leadership, if not outright insult to the bus drivers. If we can do a chesed for them and handle it like a day when it snows and parents have to arrange to pick up their children, that would also show rachmonus.
As it stands now, the air is so filled with tension and resentment, the double chilul Hashem is the situation was handled in such a way that our children will be ones on the front lines boarding the bus and c”vs have to deal with dirty looks at best.
I dont think these elected officials are representing what the majority of Lakewood wants in this matter.