Do any kids in suburban school districts even ride school buses anymore? At every elementary school in my area there are huge lines of cars with parents picking up or dropping off kids. At some schools they have officers directing traffic because there are so many cars. I went to a parochial schools in the 80s. We had maybe 30 kids who didn't take the bus. Now days that school has probably 100 cars at dismissal time waiting to pick up kids.

Are my tax dollars just being wasted sending empty school buses around every day? I remember in high school the school bus had to drive by every stop even though at a lot of stops nobody ever took the bus because they drove to school.