Politics & Government
Adam Freudberg Lays Out the Numbers on Framingham School Busing
In an impactful public comment to the City Council, Adam laid out the ground truth of busing. The video is a must see.
Every now and then a public comment at a City Council meeting really hits the spot.
The video of Adam’s public comment at the January 30, 2023, City Council meeting is here:
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Please take 4 minutes and watch this.
It sums up the entire school bus problem in a remarkably clear fashion.
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Framingham Mythology
Note that the Freudberg public comment was a comprehensive rebuttal to a prior public comment in that same City Council meeting, delivered by longtime resident and former Town Meeting Bob Bolles.
Bob’s public comment may be viewed here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIFL5OP1Zh4
Bob Bolles is wrong on savings, student count, tax impacts and neighborhood schools. Also, he forgets the fact that Chapter 70 supported most of the school district budget increases since 2011, not tax increases.
Uninformed at best, totally misleading at worst. What I call: 'Framingham Mythology'.
Especially egregious is the old guard misconception that neighborhood schools are a viable possibility, and that is on clear display in the Bolles video. Core mythology.
Going to a neighborhood school model, cutting busing, would create an income divide in the school district, which would equate to systemic discrimination, and plummeting educational outcomes for low income students. That can never happen.
We cannot have education segregation in the city based on income.
Even if there were no income divide in Framingham, neighborhood schools would be largely impossible as the majority of schools are located north of Route 9, while the majority of students reside south of Route 9.
