As a regional school, buses are a topic that is seldom welcomed when it arrives unannounced at the Principal’s door.
The issue that arrives usually consists on one or more of the following:
The list goes on
We know our bus timetables are designed and “moderated” by an office somewhere where they have more traffic lights, more traffic jams and more road rage than here in the Hastings.
We know that our frustration with the way timetables often do not reflect the growth of the school and the region, the changes in roads and the way school operate, frustrates many students and their families.
We know that some of our families do not choose to send their students on the bus because the timetables would mean they would miss their sport or performing arts practices, training or rehearsals.
We know that some parents, concerned about bus overcrowding and associated issues with safety, choose to bring their child to school.
We know that, as taxpayers, we pay the bus company when the children with bus passes do not use the services.
Thankfully, that is only one side of the school bus story!
The other side of the story is that we know that:
I know of instances where bus drivers (I hope I don’t get them into trouble disclosing this) have changed their route to assist a young child who accidentally got on the wrong bus. I know drivers who regularly deliver parts of uniforms, musical instruments and sometimes smelly sports gear to our office so parents do not have to buy replacements. I see drivers who know their students’ birthdays, make sure they sit where it is safe, smile and wish our students a great day and have become a positive part of students’ school life.
All hail the caring bus driver!
Today, at St Columba, buses:
All before midday!!!!
Buses: Constantly complain and worry about them, but our School could not do what we do without them.
Mr Terry Muldoon Principal, St Columba Anglican School |
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