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No, unless there is inadequate building heating. Run extra buses for kids that would otherwise walk to school or stand outside for more than 10 minutes, if need be, don't close school! If the schools closed for 0 F, how would Northerners ever get through the winter without falling behind academically?
It also can't be that tough to talk to parents about how to dress kids for those conditions...
No, unless there is inadequate building heating. Run extra buses for kids that would otherwise walk to school or stand outside for more than 10 minutes, if need be, don't close school! If the schools closed for 0 F, how would Northerners ever get through the winter without falling behind academically?
It also can't be that tough to talk to parents about how to dress kids for those conditions...
First, you make up the days (less Spring Break, go longer for the end of school, etc.)
Second, urban school districts do not have any extra buses, so they would at least have to delay starts for some schools.
First, you make up the days (less Spring Break, go longer for the end of school, etc.)
Second, urban school districts do not have any extra buses, so they would at least have to delay starts for some schools.
Why would urban schools have any more or fewer busses than rural?
No, unless there is inadequate building heating. Run extra buses for kids that would otherwise walk to school or stand outside for more than 10 minutes, if need be, don't close school! If the schools closed for 0 F, how would Northerners ever get through the winter without falling behind academically?
It also can't be that tough to talk to parents about how to dress kids for those conditions...
Who is going to pay for the extra buses? We can't get people to invest in schools any way.
Why would urban schools have any more or fewer busses than rural?
It depends on the area, but in Chicago, the kids use PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION to get to school, not school buses for the most part. There are some school buses, but not that many and certainly not enough to cover all the schools on a cold day - and they are also probably older and need more maintenance. In Chicago most of the children who are bused are those who have IEPs.
CPS provides transportation for a limited number of students:
Students accepted into an Options for Knowledge Program
Those students who cannot attend their neighborhood school because of overcrowding
Students who require transportation as a support service because of special needs
Chicago has 400,525 students in school. Lots of the kids do not attend their neighborhood school for various reasons and most of them are NOT bused.
In Boston, they provide bus service for 33,000 students (on 700 buses) out of a total of 57,000 students. If they needed to provide buses for the other 24,000 on any given day, they would need a minimum of 400 buses with a capacity of 60 students each.
I don't know about other cities, but in both Boston and Chicago, public transportation is how people get around *and* how many kids get to school.
It depends on the area, but in Chicago, the kids use PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION to get to school, not school buses for the most part. There are some school buses, but not that many and certainly not enough to cover all the schools on a cold day - and they are also probably older and need more maintenance. In Chicago most of the children who are bused are those who have IEPs.
Chicago has 400,525 students in school. Lots of the kids do not attend their neighborhood school for various reasons and most of them are NOT bused.
In Boston, they provide bus service for 33,000 students (on 700 buses) out of a total of 57,000 students. If they needed to provide buses for the other 24,000 on any given day, they would need a minimum of 400 buses with a capacity of 60 students each.
I don't know about other cities, but in both Boston and Chicago, public transportation is how people get around *and* how many kids get to school.
Still not seeing why more busses would be required in cold weather...
I certainly agree that if the bus system isn't working, those kids on busses should be excused.
A couple reasons: buses are more likely to breakdown due to the elements; sometimes in severe weather and school is still open, they have kids go to a different spot (more accessibility), which sometimes means more kids at once, so another bus needs to come and pick up the rest of the kids.
Here in SC our schools have had delayed openings all week - the reason is temps in the low teens and buses that may have trouble starting at those temps. Also, a couple schools in our district are in "new urban" developments where 100s of kids live within a few blocks of the school and can walk - but it's just too cold for them to walk to school. Also, here in SC we get more ice than snow, so black ice on roadways is a real problem.
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