wilkes

Just a thought here, but, some people take their kids because they have to be at work and need to leave home before the bus comes by their house and the kids are too young to be left home alone.

I think we need to go back to the days of the 1 room schoolhouse for grades 1-6 with only one teacher.

We had this same discussion last year.

Many kids do ride the bus. Each bus is making atleast 2 loads in the mornings and afternoon. Just becausr there is lines at the school doesn't mean the buses are not in use.

I care how kids get to school, and I'm thankful for school buses.

It never ceases to amaze me the things people pick out to obsess over. My kids rode the bus most of the time when they were smaller, but sometimes they had to be picked up. Either way, I could not possibly have cared less how anyone else got their child to school or what their reasoning was for using that method. I can't imagine having so little to worry about that something like this would matter to me.

My , my, let kids walk five or six miles to school , they have nothing else to do .

I know how to do research troll you might want to take some of your own advice and learn how to read.

That's right section 239 says "Each local board of education is hereby authorized to acquire, own, lease, contract and operate school buses for the transportation of pupils enrolled in the public schools ." but it doesn't say that they are require to only that they can.

Now lets look at section 241.

� 115C-241. Assignment of school buses to schools.

The superintendent of the schools of each local school administrative unit which shall elect to operate a school bus transportation system, shall, prior to the commencement of each regular school year and subject to the approval of the local board of education, allocate and assign to the respective public schools within the jurisdiction of such local school administrative unit the school buses which the local board shall own and direct to be operated during such school year. From time to time during such school year, subject to the directions of the local board of education, the superintendent may revise such allocation and assignment of school buses in accordance with the changing transportation needs and conditions at the respective schools of such local school administrative unit, and may, pursuant to such revision, assign an additional bus or buses to a school or withdraw a bus or buses from a school in such local school administrative unit. (1955, c. 1372, art. 21, s. 3; 1981, c. 423, s. 1.)

You will notice it applies to system that elects to provide transportation it doesn't say they have to but lets continue to look.

� 115C-245. School bus drivers; monitors; safety assistants.

(a) Each local board, which elects to operate a school bus transportation system, shall employ the necessary drivers for such school buses. The drivers shall have all qualifications prescribed by the regulations of the State Board of Education herein provided for and must be at least 18 years old and have at least six months driving experience as a licensed operator of a motor vehicle before employment as a regular or substitute driver, but the selection and employment of each driver shall be made by the local board of education, and the driver shall be the employee of such local school administrative unit. Each local board of education shall assign the bus drivers employed by it to the respective schools within the jurisdiction of such board, and the superintendent or superintendent's designee shall assign the drivers to the school buses to be driven by them. No school bus shall at any time be driven or operated by any person other than the bus driver assigned to such bus except by the express direction of the superintendent or superintendent's designee or in accordance with rules and regulations of the appropriate local board of education.

You will notice that once again that this statue uses the words "which elects to operate" meaning chose's to but doesn't say anything about being require to.

Now why don't you take your own smart @$$ advice and learn how to do some research and show us all what NCGS, rule that says the school systems must provide transportation. I will help you get a start call you local BOE and ask them what law requires them to provides bus's for the school system. Their answer will be we aren't required to do so by any law.

My girls ride the bus , to their respective schools.mmy niece and nephew do not . They at this point and time are in my custody. I made the choice to leave them in the school,they are in so they could stay with something familiar. So they are car riders to school, but they are afternoon bus riders to their grandmothers. Myself and DSS aren't sure if their placement is temporary or permanent. Therefore I see no point in moving them to a new school, to maybe either moving them right back or moving them to a different school again. I know this isn't everyone's situation, but it is ours. So before you judge about why kids are getting car rides know their situation. Not all kids live within the district, some kids need the extra TLC in the mornings.

Now I know who made that word 'arse' famous.

ARTICLE 17, CHAPTER 115C, SECTION 240, SUBSECTION B. STATES THAT THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION SHALL...

"...BE UNDER NO DUTY TO SUPPLY TRANSPORTATION TO ANY STUDENT..."

HOWEVER, SECTION 239 STATES,

"EACH LOCAL BOARD OF EDUCATION IS AUTHORIZED TO ACQUIRE ....AND OPERATING SCHOOL BUSES FOR THE TRANSPORTATION OF PUPILS ENROLLED IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS..."

NOW STUPIDARSE, LEARN HOW TO RESEARCH!

Just saw on WXII where 25,000 kids get injured and I forgot how many get killed just trying to get on and off the school bus. They showed a video of a tractor trailer passing a bus with a kid walking to board the bus. Then another video of not one, not two, but THREE cars in a ROW passing the bus in the opposite lane while the child was attempting to get on the bus.

I'm not even going to start my semi-rant of all the raunchy bull kids get away with on busses, aside from your typical fights. I don't think drivers are fully capable to drive AND babysit 40-some kids, or more.

My children are not of school age yet, but my little Johnny's will not be riding the bus until...
A.) there are monitors on the bus supervising the children's activities and attitudes while en route and
B.) they install some of those bars that go fully across the other lane alerting cars to stop (kind of like what you see at railroad crossings). Apparently a big yellow bus and a red flashing stop sign isn't enough to make people respectfully stop. If they were to still disregard that bar, they'd be paying out of pocket for damage to their vehicle.

I don't see either of those happening, and we just live a couple miles from their future school anyways, so I have absolutely no problem in taking my children to school myself and knowing that their ride there was 100% safe and uneventful.

Then provide info to back up your claim

ONCE AGAIN ARSEHOLE YOU'RE WRONG.

Hepsibah (view profile)	Posted 8:47 pm, 08/31/2014
Public schools are required to provide transportation......period. There are still kids who ride buses. Several generations in my family rode - and drove - school buses. The bus drivers are still good drivers now.

This is incorrect.

http://www.myreporter.com/2...-students/

why ? because all 3 kids had to have their own bus ? Like so many kids riding solo in the huge suv to school each day and back home. All that room for just one child going into the same community with all their other neighbor kids living right beside them.

Had to get 3 more buses at Wilkesboro. Lot more students.

A lot of schools have two and three loads. There are still kids riding the bus...a lot of kids.

I agree, I think that should be part of the education experience HAVING to ride the school bus to school and back home. Helps you with your communication skills and getting along with others. Learning life lessons and being a part of the whole. Not special that you have to have your own personal ride to school, that's being spoiled. I know we were required to ride the school bus when we were in school. Even if you had to go wait at someone else's house for the bus to come, if your parents had to go to work. So there are no excuses why you MUST ride in a car to school. Causing traffic jams, accidents etc. around school areas. Adding to the frustration of the world today.

I understand half the kids ride the bus and the other half in cars, if parents would rear their children correctly they would not learn bad words at school in general not only on the bus, tv is as bad