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 Kindergarten Safe Bus Riding Bus Drivers are required by law to assign your child a driver designated place of safety. The designated place of safety will be in a place clearly visible to the driver, outside of your home or car and away from traffic in a safe spot. Please have your child at the driver designated place of safety 5 minutes before the bus is scheduled to arrive. It is highly recommended you stay with your child until he/she boards the bus. Teach your child not to talk to strangers and if someone approaches them, have them tell the bus driver right away. If your child is at a stop where there are other students present, please have them line up with the others and don’t allow them to play around at the bus stop so no one gets hurt. Behavior at the bus stop must not threaten life, limb or property so please help your child to understand proper behavior. Once your child boards the bus, he/she will be assigned a seat that they are required by law to sit in every day unless a new seating chart is made. Your child must sit down with back on back, seat on seat, feet on the floor or toward the floor. They must use their inside voice and not be loud so the driver can hear the 2-way radio, traffic noise and any student who may need assistance. When riding a school bus, children are not allowed to eat, drink or chew gum so it’s best to leave it at home before going to the bus stop. Please cut off any long or dangling straps from your child’s backpack or book bag so it can’t be caught in the handrails or door. Teach your child if they drop something near or under the bus, not to go and get it themselves but instead tell the driver. Your child’s safety is more important than any belongings. When your child is scheduled to arrive back at the bus stop in the afternoon, we highly recommend you be at the bus stop 5 minutes before the bus is scheduled to accept your child from the bus. This way if there are students not on, we are not holding up traffic. When your child departs the bus in the afternoon, Greenville City Schools highly recommends that your child be met at the stop by a responsible person. If your kindergartener has an older sibling departing the bus, we are able to send your child with the sibling. We can not leave your child alone at the stop. If you are not present or you do not have a responsible person there to meet your child, we will be forced to take your child back to Woodland Primary and you will have to make arrangements to get your child from the school. If your child is going to a stop other than their daily stop you will need to send a note to school and the school will issue your child a bus pass for the day to go to another stop. If you need your child picked up at a babysitter, we have alternate transportation forms available at the Transportation Department @ 511 Markwith or any school building. These will need to be filled out and sent back or taken back to the school or to the Transportation Department. We will not accept changes in transportation locations between August 22, 2009 and September 7, 2009. Please help us make sure your kindergartener has a safe and happy ride this year. |
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Substitute Bus Driver Information The Transportation Department is accepting applications for sub bus drivers. Applications must be completed and submitted through the Greenville City Schools Transportation Dept. You must have a satisfactory criminal background check, both BCII and FBI, a physical, a pre-employment drug test, and a clean driving record. Behind the wheel training will be done by the Greenville City Schools Transportation Department. The starting wage for sub bus drivers is $13.31 per hour for routes, and $10.71 per hour for student activity trips. For more information, please call 548-4464. |
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Pupil transportation service must be
provided in Ohio for students in grades K-8 who live more than two miles
from their school. Many school districts also transport students in high
school, as well as students who live closer than two miles from their
school, but these services are optional at the discretion of the local
school district and are not required by state law.
Transportation plans are designed and implemented by each district. This plan includes the designation of walk - in areas to school, identification of hazardous areas, the location of bus stops and the actual routing and planning of routes. Other issues, such as the ability of the school district to accommodate day care arrangements, alternative bus stops and length of time a students rides on a bus are also determined by the local school district. There are no administrative regulations or laws that limit these. School transportation is a form of public transportation that is designed to be safe and efficient while serving as many students as possible. It is not an individualized transportation service. As in other public forms of transportation, there is little opportunity to alter or change schedules and routes to meet individual family circumstances. |
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