What Next TBD: Tech Disrupts the School Bus

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Society & Culture, Technology, History

4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

When Howard County signed a $27 million contract with the start-up Zum, the company promised to modernize the way schools provide transportation. But when the school year started, that’s not what happened. Guest: Daniel Zawodny, covering transportation for the Baltimore Banner and corps member of Report For America. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I made you think you was real.
0:02.0	My name is Caden Sinclair.
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0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me.
0:22.6	When you're left for dead, you want answers.
0:24.6	We Will Liars. New series, watch now, only on Prime Video.
0:33.6	359, I think, was 359, 359.
0:38.3	What time to sit there?
0:40.3	It is now 456.
0:43.3	And according to these frustrated families, not only was the bus more than an hour late for drop-off.
0:49.3	My son misses violin lessons today. It was at 4.30.
0:53.3	It was also 30 minutes late picking students up.
0:57.2	Imagine that you're a parent trying to get your kids settled into their back-to-school routine.
1:02.9	But the bus that's supposed to bring them there and take them home is missing in action.
1:10.6	That is what's been happening in Howard County, Maryland, over the past 10 days.
1:15.7	Thousands of students in the county public school system were late, weren't picked up,
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