No child should have to sit through a 2-hour bus ride to get to school

A student walks off the bus at Willa Cather Elementary School, 2908 W. Washington Blvd. in East Garfield Park, for the first day of school for Chicago Public Schools, Monday morning, Aug. 22, 2022. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times)

Most able-bodied adults would have difficulty with a two-hour commute to work and then having to make another lengthy trip back home.

So it isn’t hard to imagine the toll nearly four hours on a school bus would take on a special needs child.