"Responsibility" suggests a legal obligation, and that certainly isn't what we should be talking about. More sensible would be a question like "Are there moral and practical reasons why we should make our children's education our highest priority?"

Transportation can be a significant financial or logistic issue for many families, and just as we want our children to have access to the best facilities, teachers, books, technology and other obvious resources that will result in a well-educated, productive society, less obvious resources like transportation, proper meals for kids whose families can't afford them and social services that may be necessary to allow each kid to perform at his highest potential should also be provided.

We call children our most precious resource, and we call education the most important element of the road to success, but it usually turns out that we talk the talk but fail to walk the walk.

-- Martin Bensky, Richland