Yeah, it’s weird to me as a non-USian. Why would you need a special kind of vehicle just to transport school kids, if normal buses already exist? Obviously we have school buses as well; I took the bus to school every day. But here they’re just normal buses operated by bus companies under contract to the government. And I think that’s the case pretty much everywhere else in the world.
Lockers in school are unfamiliar to me as well, but at least I can see the rationale. We just carried the day’s books and supplies in our backpacks every day, which could get quite heavy as a result. If you could leave the books you didn’t need for homework at school, it would probably be quite good for a lot of children’s postures.
