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- Just like on Friday, there’s only one clip worth talking about today, and it’s even the same topic as in Friday’s edition. But this time, both the source and the publication outlet are worth a very special focus. The piece comes to us from Teen Vogue. Yes, the same mag that gave us early covers of rising stars Beyoncé and Rhianna as well as chronicling the ascension of fashion icons Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, helping us find that perfect prom dress for decades, and being first to diagnose K-Pop fever as it descended upon America. THAT Teen Vogue. Published in its electronic pages today, however, is something altogether more serious: a piece written by a student journalist from Dayton, discussing what are termed “Ohio’s Private Charter School Wars” as exemplified by the school busing mess in her city. While she does highlight some deep problems in the Gem City—not least of which is safety and security for all citizens using RTA bus stops—she elides many other facts about the way student transportation operates in Ohio. Most pertinently: that everyone pays the taxes that fund yellow buses (including the families of students attending charter, private, and STEM schools), that the laws requiring districts to transport school choice-using students aren’t new, and that the only “war” going on in this regard has been waged by districts like Dayton, who are solely in charge of how all student transportation operates and who have been trying to evade or invalidate those laws for many years. In my opinion, this is too important an issue addressed in too important a forum to go without these important insights. (Teen Vogue, 6/9/25)
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