In the Washoe County School District many people, especially students, struggle with illogical bus routes. For some unorganized students, the struggle of being at the bus stop before the sun rises and riding the bus for what may seem like forever is crushing, and staying silent on it is a burden. As a society we should at least acknowledge this as an issue, and try to cut the stop time and bus ride to a minimum. It is a little-known issue, yet it does have some simple solutions that would help a large portion of students. These include reducing the number of stops, and altering the rout. To begin with, there is a considerable amount of research going into when schools start when they do. In no way does this solution imply that the school schedule should be changed, or anything of the sort. …show more content…
Washoe County bus driver Ms. Nichole has expressed her opinion on this issue, stating that she believes that in at least some places, the bus ride would be more efficient if students walked a bit further to their stops. For example, Moonrise, a large stop for Washoe County's Pine Middle School, is directly up the street from a different bus stop. The different bus stop can be seen from Moonrise. No student would mind the walk if this bus ride was removed. Ashton Taylor, a student of the week at Pine Middle School stated that, "My bus takes such a long time at each stop. If it would only let me walk a bit farther so that I could sleep in longer, I would enjoy school much more." Unnecessary stops such as these require the bus to drive to an unnecessary amount of locations, into every nook and cranny. These out of the way lengthen the route by a considerable amount. There are many stops like this in multiple school bus routes, and if we eliminated them, the bus route would take less time, allowing the bus to arrive at stops
“Montgomery Bus Boycott.” UXL Encyclopedia of U.S History.Sonia Benson,Daniel E. Brannen,Jr. and Rebecca Valentine. Vol.5. Detroit: UXL, 2009 1023-1026 student resources in Context, Web.7 Apr,2014
Farah Stockman- Harvard alum, journalist, and Pulitzer Prize winner- examines the effect busing has on the youth in Boston, a city with continuing racial contradictions she seamlessly integrates into her articles. She uses her platform to push for change for minorities both locally and globally. She shows that while progress is made, work is still needed. She shows that what we see on television is not always reality. She shows that this era has been shaped by the history of desegregation.
Miller, Jake. The Montgomery Bus Boycott: Integrating Public Buses. New York: Rosen Pub. Group, 2004. Print
...here they need to go. This makes kids late, the times ranging from forty five minutes to two hours, if the bus comes at all. All of these are major concerns, the interference with summer plans, the length of our summer, and the conditions of the roads, are significant concerns.
The issue at hand is that Duquesne University students are displeased with the transportation services available to them specifically the SGA Loop Bus. I believe Matt Liberatore speaks for the majority of students when he commented (about the Loop Bus) saying, “It is not as effective as it should be. They’re inconsistent, and aren’t enough prevalent as they should be.” Problems were evident from the beginning of its existence. The Loop Bus is a free service to students of Duquesne University that runs Friday and Saturday beginning at 5:00 in the evening and ending as early as 12:30 and as late as 2:30am. This leads to many cases of being stranded in unfamiliar places throughout the city. Matt also commented on how was inconvenienced during his freshman and sophomore years where he remembers waiting hours until another bus would come because the previous was too small.
In closing, I propose to eliminate the current transportation system and let the schools organically integrate and use these liberated financial resources to renew the schools resources to teach the children what they come to school to learn and let them be who they are.
Mooney, Jonathan. The Short Bus: A Journey beyond Normal. New York: H. Holt, 2007. Print.
the private taxi system was under attack with the cabs frequently being pulled over for the most minor traffic violations. that usually ends in the drivers being placed in jail. Although many may have been arrested, we continue to have a protest because none of our actions have been found illegal. The carpool and all we have done in this boycott continues. Despite the obstacles they faced, MT buses continue to drive around Montgomery.
School Should Begin Later in the Day Many teenage high school students are tired during the school day. distracting them from their studies. That is just one of the many good reasons. that the start time of school should be later in the day. Some people may say that the brain is not fully functional until 9:30 is just a matter of opinion.
However the National Center for Safe Routes to School (NCSRS) provides federal grants to school districts to improve the existing infrastructure around schools in order to make them safer for student pedestrians and bikers. In an article published in the National Civic Review (2014), NCSRS founder and staffer Hubsmith and Mennesson state that funding for bussing is being cut in many districts. They go on to explain how this provides an excellent opportunity to encourage students to walk and bike to school. They cite a case study where a school district was given a grant to improve infrastructure around the school and eliminate one full bus route. This will save the district almost $50,000 a year (p. 41).
Many students will say if school started later they will show significant improvements in school performance. In the article “5 Pons and Cons of Later school start times” it’s states that If school started later students would make significant improvements in school performance. Many School districts that experimented with later start times found that students coped with academic workloads much better. Also a study on University of Minnesota found that grades, test scores and overall performance in core subjects advanced significantly when school start times were switched to later hours. So if school districts experimented with later start times and it helped students coped with academic workloads then why aren't we doing later start times. Plus the University of Minnesota said that grades, test scores and overall performance is better when schools started later. If
For example, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has a bus service that students use. The campus itself is very huge compared to NIU. However, they have bus services that goes through the residence halls just like at NIU. The school shares with the city of Champaign as well. The service is called MTD which is the Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District. Students can get on any bus with their student ID. University of Illinois has an app that tracks the exact time of the bus, just like NIU has. They have different routes that go well with the students and residents. All of the bus routes are labeled as colors. There are four primary campus routes are Gold, Yellow, Teal and Silver. These routes normally come every 10-15 minutes, and these routes continue throughout the nighttime. MTD has a service called Hopper service where these routes are used when the bus experiences high volume of people. They offer these during peak times of the
For a twenty student bus trip the ride was mostly quiet, aside from the annoying humming of the engine and the annoying shuttering of the windows. The older students apart of the forestry class were more inclined to be talking about their future catchings, but the younger participants focused on silly conversation. Instead of joining in the talk, a couple students in the back, not even a seat away, curled up with their hands firmly placed on their knees and staring blankly outside their almost spiffy bus window. Their uncertainties seemed to be within reason, taking account of the conditions
The first to talk was Donna Salen, mother of two daughters who ride Bus 173. She complained Shady Grove Elementary School morning bus (173) was inefficient because it went south to north and then south again. Trying to get the board’s approval to talk with the director of transportation, she printed out maps suggesting a new more efficient route that minimized the time the children were on the bus. Laura LeGower and Ying Sue also complained about this bus. They claimed it causes more pollution and wastes tax money.
One solution for improving student transportation is offering a shuttle service. Although, UTSA already provides a shuttle service, it is limited to only two routes and can be unreliable. The transportation service at UTSA recommends waiting at the shuttle stop “30 to 45 minutes before your scheduled class time” (Business . . .). The thought of waiting in freezing temperatures trying to hide from the icy rain can be disheartening for some but it is a reality for students whose only way of transportation is through the shuttle. As a result of similar issues, Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey, “provides 40 buses on 10 routes complete with GPS tracking“(Horan 52). The purpose of GPS trackin...