To the editor: Ohio’s school transportation crisis demands real solutions

The Columbus Dispatch recently published an opinion piece criticizing Ohio school districts for restricting intra-district enrollment when transportation is impractical to provide. The critique is fair — but it misses the mark. The real problem is not that districts are declaring certain routes “impractical.” The problem is that policymakers and the public misunderstand what a public-school district’s transportation system actually is, and what solutions would actually work.

Here’s the fundamental truth: posting speed limits does not stop high-speed crashes. New laws do not solve underlying problems. They are reactive responses to symptoms. Yet this is exactly what Ohio has been doing with transportation policy for years — passing laws and blaming districts while the actual crisis acceler