On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 07:02:19 +0100, Pooh Bear
wrote:
>TOliver wrote:
>
>> "Pooh Bear" wrote in message
>> news:432F941E.A9F4C4D6@hotmail.com...
>> > Hatunen wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 01:47:51 +0100, Pooh Bear
>> >> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >
>> >> >sfb wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> So each bus can do an elementary, middle, and high school run.
>> >> >
>> >> >Yes, I gathered that.
>> >> >
>> >> >Why can't all age ranges use the same bus ?
>> >>
>> >> Duh. They do. But since each age range fills the buses they have
>> >> to be used over again for each level. Either that, or they would
>> >> have to buy threee times as many buses and hire three times as
>> >> many drivers and assistants.
>> >>
>> >> >Can't the bus visit all the schools ? There seems to be a fixed mindset
>> >> >in
>> >> >action here assuming that kids have to be segregated by age.
>> >>
>> >> We have elementary schools for those in grades K=5, middle
>> >> schools for grades 6-8 and high schools for graees 9-12 ( it
>> >> varies from urisdciton to jurisdiction, though, with some places
>> >> having junior high schools, grades 7-9, and, oh never mind.
>> >
>> > Again.... I'l say buy bigger buses !
>> >
>> > That daft yellow 1940's school bus we see on the movies has never ever
>> > moved
>> > with the times !
>> >
>> > One driver can today move 130 pupils if you actually want to do so !
>>
>> You really don't "get it" do you?
>
>Well..... it's taken a hell of time to get some ppl to properly explain the
>problem !
>
>
>> In much of the US the school bus problem has less to do with numbers of
>> students than it does with long distances (and increments in time) which
>> must be traveled to collect and return students. Ther are few "full" school
>> busses,
>
>Some respondents disagree ! They say it *is* capacity !
That depends on the school district. Ours is middle sized city
and the school buses are generally full; some rural rooutes may
not hage enough students geographically :clumped" to fill a
standard bus. Now they could use some smaller buses, but if they
already have standard buses that will be used on other routes,
maintaining a fleet of small buses may not be economic.
Our sen-year old is a special needs child and t he district
provides a special bus for special needs kids, with harnesses,
and wheel chari loaders and places to lcok down wheel chars, that
sort of thing. The bus is rarely full because there aren't that
many special needs kids and I do know they have some smaller
van-like tranporters because they bring her howm in one every now
and then. but I gather her bus will normall be used on a special
needs middle school route, too.
It's easy to say "get a bigger bus", but that isn't always the
answer. We've all got your insistance on it, but we don't agree.
>> but many routes which take more than an hour to run, some for just a
>> handful of students. Even the suburbs, more heavily populated, can still
>> cover substantial areas.
>
>At the end of the day...... The USA is *supposed to be* the most advanced nation
>on Earth , Yes ?
Is it?
>If the USA can't even get kids to school on time what the hell are we expected
>to make of you ?
Um. They DO get to school on time. So what's YOUR problem?
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