BUSSING

Parent Responsibilities:
- for students before pick-up and after drop-off.
- to ensure that their child is on time for pick-up.
- to ensure that their child is appropriately dressed for weather.
- to inform the bus driver when their child will not ride the bus.
- to arrange alternative shelter for their child if no one is home.
Student Conduct:
- Students must obey the bus driver. The driver is in full charge.
- Students have a right to ride on the bus to and from their school in a safe and quiet manner.
- Students have a right to carry on quiet conversations with other students in their assigned seated areas.
- Students may eat on the bus with the driver’s permission.
- Students are expected to place garbage in the garbage basket.
- Students may play their radios or tape recorders if they use earplugs or headphones.
- Students will be assigned to a seat by the bus driver, and will sit in their assigned seat when riding the bus.
- Skate blades and other hard or sharp objects must be covered by protective guards or transported in an appropriate case.
- Students are expected to be on time for loading and discharge.
- Students are expected to exhibit behavior that would be acceptable in a classroom.
- Students must not distract the driver.
- Students are accountable for their behavior on the bus.
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