THE MONSTER CALLED THE SCHOOL BUS...
THE MONSTER CALLED THE SCHOOL BUS... the speeding school bus to me often represents the first monster that the child encounters in the system of education, the angry and speeding driver is a representative of the system itself, intolerant, insensitive to the child's need, adhering to its own demands of pace and not at all in the interest of the child. in my morning walk with my daughter, i often see these monsters cruise past at break-neck speed, splashing the overnight rains that have become road-side slush on one and all, honking their multi-lingual, polyphonic horns in complete impatience, steering in and out of narrow lanes to pick up children, reversing into some, rushing into others, climbing narrow walkways to make tight turns so as to quickly pick-up that one child unwilling to go, but brought to the slaughter station of pick-up points by the faithful parents and grand parents - those who have faith in the system of education, that it will eliminate some unknown...