General Wake County Schools discussion (2012/13 school year) (buy, high school)
Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, CaryThe Triangle Area
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Yes. I suspect this to be the problem. They have a ton of routes to Green Hope this year. Two pages of them. They only had one page before. Sooo, if this is true of all schools? I cannot see how they'd have enough buses or drivers.
Yup. And the buses are coming from far and wide. It's not the choice plan though....even though none of these kids were remotely close to being these schools last year!
Don't even want to get into how crowded the schools are - class sizes maintained but it is just going to bust open one day and a wall of kids is going to float down Davis Drive. You heard it here first!
One of my friends has a neighbor whose son is at Green Hope High School. His bus pickup time is 6:30 am but the 1st stop on the list is at 4:30am and they live 6 miles from the school. 4:30am!
And our bus is un-airconditioned. They took 50-something buses off the road but left the ones from the Year of the Flood on the road.
Hmmm, my oldest said her bus was very un-airconditioned, my youngest said her bus driver claimed to have "accidentally bumped the heater with her elbow and turned it on".
Another brilliant money saver: Save money by not running the AC, then keep the kids on the bus for 2 hours after school, give them all 'heat prostration' and they'll have to stay home tomorrow.
I'm not trying to argue in favor of the current choice-based assignment plan, but I'm leery of using first day transportation issues as proof that the plan is flawed. In a system as large and complex as Wake, there are likely to be some problems at the start of a school year. This is not the first year some families have encountered transportation problems.
Well, I just started teaching in a year-round school and the busses have been showing up 30 minutes after school gets out all month-which to me is crazy. The last two days it was after 5. The kids were starving-imagine what time they got home.
Well, I just started teaching in a year-round school and the busses have been showing up 30 minutes after school gets out all month-which to me is crazy. The last two days it was after 5. The kids were starving-imagine what time they got home.
The same thing happened to us for the last 2 years of elementary school. The bus didn't get to school until 30 minutes after school ended. This new 2 tier bus system was supposed to end that problem since the buses only have to serve two different schools now instead of three.
Yup. And the buses are coming from far and wide. It's not the choice plan though....even though none of these kids were remotely close to being these schools last year!
Don't even want to get into how crowded the schools are - class sizes maintained but it is just going to bust open one day and a wall of kids is going to float down Davis Drive. You heard it here first!
I just found out that my daughter's middle school had students clamoring to get in. Go figure.
They still don't have busing sorted out, but she got home 30 minutes earlier today.
Build a fence. Gotta keep those kids off your lawn.
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One of my friends has a neighbor whose son is at Green Hope High School. His bus pickup time is 6:30 am but the 1st stop on the list is at 4:30am and they live 6 miles from the school. 4:30am!
4:30? Good grief.
I thought my kid had it bad. We live about 7 miles away from Green Hope and his bus is here around 6:15.
4:30??? I hope those kids sleep on the bus!
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The same thing happened to us for the last 2 years of elementary school. The bus didn't get to school until 30 minutes after school ended. This new 2 tier bus system was supposed to end that problem since the buses only have to serve two different schools now instead of three.
Oh those excuses are b.s. They used to tell us the same thing last year when we didn't have a bus in the afternoon - meanwhile the school has the earliest start time of any elementary in the entire county. So where was the bus before coming to our school?! The situation wasn't resolved till I emailed the head of transport with a tirade and some legal questions and magically we had a bus the next day and never had one problem after that.
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and they'll have to stay home tomorrow.
