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made at last month’s Board meeting. Superintendent William Bloomer gave the School Board a transportation report. According to Dr. Bloomer, buses were checked in the mornings and afternoons for five days. Using average figures, said Bloomer, only one bus—number three—was overloaded, carrying 59 passengers instead of 54. Using the maximum number of students that any of the buses carried during the five day check, six buses were overloaded. Bloomer said he will work on transfering some of the students off the more crowded buses without altering the routes too much.
In another transportation matter. Board member Paul Nichols questioned the necessity of getting children to school at 8:05. “1 can’t quite understand why the bus drivers have to get them here so early,” he said.
Bus drivers are more sun oriented than clock oriented. Bloomer responded. “When the sun starts coming up earlier in the spring, the bus drivers start rolling earlier.”
“Are you saying they should kill the rooster?” joked Board member Alan Stokes.
‘‘The clock is more dependable time wise than the rooster,” Bloomer replied, adding that he would talke with the drivers about starting their routes a little later so children would eet to school at the regular time.
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