Government moves to offer free school transport

[Dolores]

The Presidency decreed a major nationwide program to provide free transport to school children nationwide. Spokesman of the Presidency, Homero Figueroa announced on 23 October 2022 that the Ministry of Education is in charge of the National School Mobility System with the goal of eventually reaching the full private and public school enrollment nationwide. The program seeks to ensure that public school students get to school and return home safe and sound.

Government statistics indicate that the student enrollment in public, private and mixed schools is 2,627,833 in 10,797 educational centers for the 2022-2023 school year that began on 21 September 2022.

The government spokesman said the program will be unfolded gradually to eventually reach all students.

The Presidency has yet to upload the decree calling for the program to its website.

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[David61]

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Hopefully, there will be strong safety procedures and the highest standards for transportation of the children. Not like the recent issues with tour buses

 

[AlterEgo]

Hopefully, there will be strong safety procedures and the highest standards for transportation of the children. Not like the recent issues with tour buses

Agree, but it has to be better than the motoconchos who parents hire to transport 2-3 kids at a time where we live.

 

[CristoRey]

Free for the students,
taxpayer funded for the rest of us.

 

[NanSanPedro]

Free for the students,
taxpayer funded for the rest of us.

Makes people dependent on the govt. I think they teach that in Govt-101.

 

[NanSanPedro]

I was on the guagua yesterday morning going to the main guagua station to go to San Isidro. Normally it's about 5-10 people on it and we all get off at the Andres station to go to the capital. This time however, we got bombarded by non-paying students. Evidently there is a contract with the guagua company. In any case, our guagua was SRO for almost 1/2 kilometer. Then they all got off. There is no reason they needed to use the guagua when they could have walked in 5 or 10 minutes. My 67 year old legs do much more than that every day. What a waste!

 

[CristoRey]

I was on the guagua yesterday morning going to the main guagua station to go to San Isidro. Normally it's about 5-10 people on it and we all get off at the Andres station to go to the capital. This time however, we got bombarded by non-paying students. Evidently there is a contract with the guagua company. In any case, our guagua was SRO for almost 1/2 kilometer. Then they all got off. There is no reason they needed to use the guagua when they could have walked in 5 or 10 minutes. My 67 year old legs do much more than that every day. What a waste!

Same reason you often see 5 colmados within one block from the custmer's house and all of them offer delivery services. LAZY