Rule of the Week

Rule of the Week:
Wait for the bus in a safe place, and in an orderly manner.

What It Means:
Students waiting for the bus must wait in a location more than ten feet from where the bus stops.  Approach to the bus will be regulated by the driver's signal.

Why It Matters:
Students need to wait in a location a safe distance from traffic and from the approaching bus.  Even students entering the bus on the door side need to wait for the driver's safety signal, especially when it's cold outside.

Waiting in the roadway, on top of snowbanks, or inside the house is generally a bad idea. 

Safe Riding!

Rule of the Week

This Week's Rule:
Get on the bus in a single file line.  Never push.

What It Means:
Students need to enter the bus one-by-one, using the handrail.  The same is true upon exiting: using the handrail, students need to leave the bus one-by-one.

Why It Matters:
Pushing while standing too close to the bus is dangerous for all students.  Approaching and entering the bus in a single file line means the bus driver can easily see all the students and observe their safe entry onto (and later exit from) the bus.

Safe Riding!

Rule of the Week

This Week's Rule:

Wait for the bus in a safe place and in an orderly fashion.

What It Means:
Wait at the designated school bus stop at a place approved by parents and the bus driver. Avoid horseplay.

Why It's Important:

Students need to wait off the roadway for the bus to arrive. It's best not to stand on top of snowbanks or climb trees. Waiting in an orderly fashion means no one will be pushed into the street at an unsafe time.

Safe Riding!

Kari

Rule of the Week

This Week's Rule:

Keep your hands to yourself.

What It Means:
Students should be sitting facing the front of the bus with their belongings and their hands in their laps.

Why It's Important:

Most problems on the bus would be resolved if the students didn't touch each other.

We also believe the best way to stop the spread of germs is to encourage students to avoid touching each other as much as possible.

Safe Riding!

Kari

Welcome

Welcome to our blog. We will be adding information weekly to this site, at first just our "Rule of the Week" entry. Check back often or join our mailing list.

When necessary, we will be posting information about late buses. To receive the posting, you will need to join the mailing list. It looks like you will receive information about all late buses at this point, since we haven't discovered how to narrow the field, but they're not late often! Late bus postings will be made for buses running more than 15 minutes late, and a brief description of the trouble will appear in the posting.

Happy Trails!

Update: We're migrating our blog to a new site and will not be moving each of the "Rule of the Week" posts (just the first ones) to simplify the process. We'll begin posting the new "Rule of the Week" when school starts in September. June 23, 2010

Safe Driving!
Kari