short buses
Smaller student transports
Short buses are the smaller school buses used to transport students with disabilities, as opposed to the full-sized yellow buses for general student populations.
The term appears frequently in cruel schoolyard taunts: He rides the short bus implies someone is intellectually disabled.
This insult has made the phrase offensive even in neutral contexts.
- minibusCompact multi-passenger vehicle
- schoolPlace of instruction
- school districtGeographic education administrative unit
- childrenYoung human beings
- passengerTraveler, not operator
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