New bus system being implemented

Eighteen hundred kids and 28 buses would cause stress for any school. To help alleviate the lollygagging after school before loading the buses, Principal Chris Shaw and Assistant Principal Maurice Jones have come up with a new policy.

“We’re trying to speed up the process of kids getting on the buses because kids linger around a lot and then they wait for the very last minute to run and catch the bus. So now the air horns will give the bus drivers signals,” Jones said.

The first air horn will give the students one minute to get on the bus. The second horn will signal to the bus drivers to close their doors and drive away—with or without the riders.

“When there’s 28 buses, we need to get them off campus as soon as possible: and if we wait for the kids to talk to their friends it’ll be ten minutes before they even load. We’re trying to get them off between five and seven minutes,” Jones said.

If this new system works, Shaw and Jones will continue the new system into next year’s school year.

“Once the kids get acclimated to it then I think that they will understand. It will take some kids getting left, but once that happens a few times kids will realize that [they need to be on the bus],” Jones said.