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A policy change by thee District has an outsized impact on a cherished Plainfield business. |
The Plainfield Public Schools have caused unprecedented collateral damage in the Plainfield business community.
Collateral damage is a term drawn from warfare and refers to casualties among innocent victims as a result of military actions.
In the case of Plainfield, the school district inaugurated a program of staggered starts for the schools with the beginning of the fall 2019 term.
This has meant that the District is essentially able to meet all its school bus transportation needs from its own fleet of vehicles kept at the old high school.
It has meant a savings of $800,000 for the year, according to a school official. This is important for a district which is always facing difficulty with its budgets -- which are reliant on state funding to a high degree.
It has also meant a corresponding loss in income for one of Plainfield's proudest local businesses -- Amaker & Porterfield -- which must absorb the loss.
Amaker & Porterfield is a full service transportation company and has other operations besides school buses -- medical transportation and tour buses, for instances.
But still, it must be a painful hit to their business.
I am reminded of an old country saying by my grandmother: It doesn't matter if the rock hits the jug or the jug hits the rock; it is sad for the jug.
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