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largebus
Advanced Member
USA
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 Posted - 01/23/2002 : 11:39:37 AM
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This week is midterm week and for middle high schoolers that means half days! The buses did their normal morning routes, then at 10:00 a middle school return bus (regular buses) then at 11:10 a high school return bus (activity buses, 7 total) and then the regular afternoon buses. My driver remarked that it was "more work than usual". It is critical that kids know their activity bus. This performance is also done during finals. The drivers are given packets detailing the day by day plans. Interestingly however, no inbound bus is provided for high schoolers who only have an afternoon exam. The activity buses are used because the number of kids is a lot less and it doesn't waste fuel. How do your districts operate during midterms, finals or any other pre-arranged early dismissal plan?
"If it's long, wide and high with wheels it's a bus. If it's yellow with black stripes it's a school bus" |
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Debusguy
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 01/23/2002 : 1:20:55 PM
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It is interesting to see what other systems do in this regard. We don't have a procedure for exam-related early dismissals, but when we have middle & highschool parent-teacher conferences, we run an entire week with a dismissal time of 11:00AM for the middle school, and 12:00N for the high school. On those days, the drivers are allowed to claim an hour for layover time , since it cuts into their regular day in such an extreme fashion. As for Activity routes, budget cuts in the early 80's did those babies in fairly quickly. LM
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wagonmaster
Top Member
USA
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Posted - 01/23/2002 : 3:46:38 PM
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We take them to school at normal times and take them home via an early dismissal pre-arrangement. Since all of our schools have staggered hours, we have to stagger the early dismissal times as well.
Joe
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MamaLoca
Advanced Member
USA
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Posted - 01/24/2002 : 10:00:15 AM
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We do it similarly to how largebus described.
We have 4 buses cover the same areas that the afterschool buses cover. There is no pickup for mid day.
Smile, it makes people wonder what you're up to.
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UncleNeal
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 02/21/2002 : 07:36:48 AM
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Our District operates basically the same minimum day schedule as the others posted above, but the schools rarely check with the Transportation Department for conflicts... Our bell times are not staggered, but they should be!
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BusBoy
Top Member
USA
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Posted - 02/25/2002 : 6:05:32 PM
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Indianapolis Public Schools are all pre-arrangement for their 1/2 day schedules.
They send out a yearly schedule for 1/2 days and all early dismissals.
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1042
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USA
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Posted - 03/03/2002 : 5:22:33 PM
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In our particular area, an Atlanta suburban county, early release days have gotten a little out of hand. This year it seems we've had one scheduled by the school administration about once a month!
The justification for these is suggested to be things such as staff development, parent conference times, etc., but the problems associated with student transportation on these early release days are obvious.
Most troubling are the schedule conflicts caused by drivers having to make return trips to their elementary schools with younger students whose parents aren't home. This invariably turns the school grounds around the middle and high schools into mad houses due to dismissal of their crowds when numerous buses haven't yet arrived to pick up their students.
It seems obvious this trend hasn't received all the review it needs by the local school board here. My fear is that a tragedy will occur as a result of unsupervised small children brought home from school and dropped off at a stop near home without parental knowledge. I hope I'm wrong.
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