Should More Students Take the Bus To School?
One resident who lives across from Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School had some signs up this fall that prompted a discussion about students taking the bus to school.
There's often traffic backups around the schools - and especially along Route 1A near Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School and Miles River Middle School - at opening and closing times. Some of the traffic is from students. All 136 students spaces at the high school have been sold, according to Donna Bunk, administrative assistant to Superintendent Michael Harvey. And about 650 students ride the bus each day, according to Bunk, based on data provided by Salter Transportation, which operates the school district's buses. That is about 57 percent of the 1,135 students that go to school on the combined campus - 430 at the middle school and 705 at the high school. The traffic backups prompted one school neighbor to put up signs this fall that …
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Blair Spofford
9:58 am on Friday, December 14, 2012
sorry...I ran out of space...........What I see? I see so many parents who are TOLD by their children that they refuse to take the bus because it is a "Loser Cruiser" (Holly...it is the children that that label this...not the parents). I say....TAKE THAT OPTION AWAY FROM YOUR CHILDREN! They take the bus, PERIOD! My 2 boys always took the bus. There wasn't another option given to them. I took the … more ›