ATTENTION ALL TECH STUDENTS
Busing will be provided for all Morrisville students attending the Bucks County Technical High School as follows:
Pick up at M. R. Reiter (Hillcrest Avenue by parking lot). Bus will leave at 6:30 a.m. (BE PROMPT).
Students will be picked up at Tech at the end of the day and dropped off at M. R. Reiter.
ATTENTION ALL KINDERGARTEN THROUGH FIFTH GRADE STUDENTS
There will be a daily shuttle service as follows:
AM SCHEDULE
Manor Park 7:40 a.m.
M. R. Reiter 7:50 a.m.
Grandview 8:00 a.m.
Intermediate School 8:05 a.m.
M. R. Reiter 8:15 a.m.
Grandview 8:20 a.m.
Intermediate School 8:25 a.m.
PM SCHEDULE
Kindergarten pick up at Grandview 2:15 p.m.
M. R. Reiter 2:25 p.m.
Manor Park 2:35 p.m.
Intermediate School 3:00 p.m.
Grandview 3:05 p.m.
M. R. Reiter 3:15 p.m.
Intermediate School 3:25 p.m.
Grandview 3:30 p.m.
Manor Park 3:45 p.m.
18 comments:
Good luck to all the Tech Students who started as Freshmen yesterday and all the rest of the classes this morning! Its going to be another year of exciting opportunities. Make the most of it!
Only one tech school bus today.
Typical.
so what is going on with the tech buses...1 bus for 50 kids. how does this school think they can get away with this
They just did. They waited til the hubbub died down from last yr's attempt to cut to 1 bus, and went back to it. Everything old is new again.
this is the article from November 2010 when we fought the school bus issue.....
A new board member and an overcrowded bus!
Three students complained of the overcrowded conditions on the single school bus that about 50 students have been riding since Monday - and parents want an immediate solution.
Morrisville students heading to Bucks County Technical School in Bristol Township had been riding in two school buses from the former M. R. Reiter Elementary School. That changed when the district cut one bus to save money.
Acting Superintendent Bill Ferrara said the problem would be taken care of immediately, but a permanent solution needs to be worked out.
Two school students told the board that the bus ride is unsafe.
"We are falling off our seats," said Robert Fox, 16, adding that if the school bus gets into an accident, the liability may be on the district for the unsafe bus condition.
Jake Wilson, 17, said there's no room for school projects or sports gear on the bus. He added that Safety Officer Dave May supervises the students from the outside of the bus, so he hasn't witnessed the students' discomfort.
Wanda Kartal, a parent, wanted the school to find a solution.
"On (Friday), the tech parents received first notice that on (Monday) there would no longer be two buses transporting students to and from the tech school," she told the board. "No other information was provided, not even what time the one bus would be picking the kids up. No other notice was given, not even at the superintendents meeting, the school board meeting, or during the tech school updates."
She continued: "Since Monday, I have witnessed 50 kids rushing to board the bus and several kids hopping off the curb to be first in line due to overcrowding on the one bus. My son, who attends the tech school, told me he had to squeeze between two other students and that kids were hanging off the seats, blocking the aisles with their bodies and backpacks."
Ferrera said it was too late to get either a bigger bus or two buses for today, but accommodations will be made for Friday. And he will personally walk the aisles of the bus or buses.
IF MHS DID NOT GET A BIGGER BUS TO ACCOMMODATE HIGH SCHOOL SIZE STUDENTS PER PENDOT REGS THEN THEY ARE OUT OF COMPLIANCE. I would assume they did not make the mistake again, parents of tech students need to call the school for information re: the bus transporting their kids to make sure.
Call the newspaper, call the board, call the state attorney general's office and report this. Child safety now has a set price and it is the cost of one bus. How many administration and board members lied to you when the busses were first cut out? They are still lying. If you do nothing, they win and you lose.
Great, we have to go to DEFCON-5 everytime a jerk move is made. Grab the red phone, we're going to wear it out. Ridiculous!!!
Come on board & admin, are you sadists? You really seem to love to eff with people & kids & safety for pleasure.
It's actually Defcon1 that is war. Defcon5 is complete peace. The Stay on Track/Course people love to eff with everyone who does not completely agree with them
DEAFCON1 cuz they don't listen for ess.
They just received the thumbs down in the BCCT. Someone should contact the reporter on this one. Two thumbs down in a row would not only be deserving, it might wake some residents up.
Don't you people understand? You are irrelevant except for one day every two years. VOTE THESE PEOPLE OUT!!
After parents alerted the school...
Bill Ferrara and Dave May were at the Tech bus stop this morning and met with the Rep from DVHS (our new transportation provider for Tech) and they were instructed to have a 72 passenger bus available by next week (no school tomorrow or monday) to safely/properly transport the 51 Tech students to and from school.
Did anyone ask the superintendent why this was not included as part of the planning process when district transportation was arranged? Is there ANYONE competent left to run any of these public services?
Does "DVHS" mean "Delaware Valley High School", the private high school with differentiated instruction to benefit problem teens with motivational or behavioral issues?
www.dvhs.org
Customer Dis-Service, how may I hurt you?
Yes DVHS is Del val high school who MHS contracted with to provide trans in their bus for our tech students. So, as if we do not have a stigma already, we put our students into a bus labeled DVHS for alternative schooling. It just gets better and better
In the 2006 movie "Talladega Nights - The Ballad of Ricky Bobby", Ricky Bobby's first NASCAR sponsor was Laughing Clown Malt Liquor. It's logo was emblazoned on his car.
It was only after he achieved more success and stardom that his car was emblazoned with the logos of more respectable sponsors WonderBread, Fig Newtons, and Powerade.
So buck up, all the kids have to do is achieve more success and stardom, and soon they'll be riding in 1 or 2 buses (probably 1) with more respectable school logos on them. Or maybe WonderBread, Fig Newtons, and Powerade logos.
Yes, I realize that this was completely and utterly unhelpful.
Constant vigilance by parents, students, Ferrara, Dave May or Mickey Mouse shouldn't be necessary. Get the kids safely to & from school, err on the side of caution. Is this too much to ask?
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