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Sherm
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 Posted - 04/18/2002 : 06:51:12 AM
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With all of the scheduling problems this time of year with extra trips, athletics, etc., why can't athletic directors and conferences schedule more activities around regular home/school service? For example, one of my locations has 8 route buses with 2 spares. On two days this spring, there are FIVE trips scheduled to leave school before routes are completed in the afternoon! I know this happens everywhere, but WHY? Drivers are hard enough to come by just to cover routes. With all of the scheduling problems related to transportation, I think conferences and athletic directors should plan better and work together to make things easier for district transportation folks. Getting children home is and should be the first priority. Doubling up routes, doing extra runs and running routes late often occur in these situations. What do you think? Can we/should we pressure other folks to use some common sense when planning these extra activities?
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wagonmaster
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Posted - 04/18/2002 : 07:05:21 AM
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DO NOT ALLOW trips to be scheduled during regular transportation hours! Stick to it, and don't let the Athletic Directors bully you into doing it. Nothing they want takes priority over getting kids to school and back in a safe, timely manner. After that schedule away! To this end, we provided schools with their own activity buses to be used however that want. We maintain the buses and train the drivers and maintain those records. Works for us! Since we have split bell times, a high school that starts at 7:30 a.m. would have to wait until 9:00 or 9:30 a.m. before they could leave on a field trip or activity!
Joe
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Athletic Trips
