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data supplied by the administration, Robert Eastham noted that buses on side routes travel 0.7 mile to pick up nine children in one instance and in another, travel 1.8 miles to pick up only one high school boy.
Figuring that the second extension amounts to daily travel of approximately eight miles, Eastham decribed it as “an abuse of the public school system.”
He objected to the added gas consumption which results from that extension, noting that the parents “chose to live way back in the hollow” and should be willing to bring their teenage son out to the main bus route.
Limits On Walking
Bloomer noted that state regulations allow a local school system to require children less than 10 years old to walk up to a mile to a bus stop and children over 10 to walk up to a mile and a half. He added that the parents of the students who live at the end of the 1.8 mile route extension bring their son out to a main intersection during winter months when the country road is unsafe for bus travel.
Without making a formal recommendation on the consolidation proposal, Bloomer said the school system could save $1,000 or so by combining stops. “But our public relations loss may be worth more than that,” he added.
“What you’re saying is that we can’t put the conservation policies pushed by the federal and state government into effect because people won’t like it,” Eastham stated.
Agreeing with Nelson Lane that consolidation is “tricky as heck,” Nancy Reeve maintained that if consolidation or elimination of route extensions is approved, it “must be across the board and not on an individual child basic ”
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