That design translates to long swaths of time with energetic children managed in triage fashion. (“Never put a student off your bus” and “never use profanity” are two tips for drivers in a pamphlet from the American Federation of Teachers.)īuses are also expensive to operate, which means most of the more than 25 million children in the U.S. One of the biggest flaws with traditional school transportation, says Todd Ely, director of the Center for Local Government Research and Training at the University of Colorado Denver, is that 66-passenger buses must make several stops along an indirect path. In the afternoon she accompanies the group of primarily African-American and Latino kids for the return trip, while many of their classmates at Rooftop School in the San Francisco Unified School District stay behind for after-school activities like French, guitar and “Lego robotics.” Though her own children are long since grown, Sheila Hall rides alongside her “babies” on a yellow school bus for about an hour every weekday morning during the school year.
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