NYTimes VAIL, Ariz. — Students endure hundreds of hours on yellow buses each year getting to and from school in this desert exurb of Tucson, and stir-crazy teenagers break the monotony by teasing, texting, flirting, shouting, climbing (over seats) and sometimes punching (seats or seatmates).
On buses equipped with Wi-Fi in Vail, Ariz., officials say more homework is getting done, and there’s less rowdy behavior. Armando Lagunas finds the bus a place for quiet pursuits, even when he isn’t online.
But on this chilly morning, as bus No. 92 rolls down a mountain highway just before dawn, high school students are quiet, typing on laptops. Morning routines have been like this since the fall, when school officials mounted a mobile Internet router to bus No. 92’s sheet-metal frame, enabling students to surf the Web. The students call it the Internet Bus, and what began as a high-tech experiment has had an old-fashioned — and unexpected — result. Wi-Fi access has transformed what was often a boisterous bus ride into a rolling study hall, and behavioral problems have virtually disappeared.
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They are talking about Vail,
They are talking about Vail, Arizona. Which is an exurb of Tucson. They are not saying Tucson is an exurb.
You’re absolutely right
I read it too quickly (that happens online). Sorry.
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Comment deleted, as I simply read the story wrong. (As the anonymous response correctly pointed out.)
And to think–those stuious
And to think–those stuious tykes could never have just read a book on those rolling yellow vehicles.