At any time when the School provides bus transportation to the students, students shall:

   1. Be ready to board the bus on time.

   2. Stand twelve (12) feet away from the road where the bus stops.

   3. Wait until the bus comes to a complete stop to board the bus.

   4. Assist in keeping the bus safe and clean at all times.

   5. Never stick hands, arms, or any part of the body out of the windows.

   6. Never experiment or tamper with bus or any of its equipment.

   7. Keep personal possessions out of the aisle.

   8. Never throw anything in the bus or out the window.

   9. Remain in seats until the bus comes to a complete stop and not engage in disorderly behavior and obscene language. Students may be assigned seats    

        if they misbehave or it is otherwise necessary.

   10. Be courteous to fellow pupils and bus drivers.

   11. Not smoke or chew tobacco in a school bus.

   12. Not damage a bus. Damage by a student to the bus will be paid for by the student and/or the student’s parents.

It is the parent’s responsibility to promptly pick-up their students at bus drop-off sites. Buses will not remain at drop-off sites after students have disembarked from the bus. Bus drivers are required by school policy to drop off students at designated sites only and to leave the drop-off site immediately after the students disembark from the bus. These rules apply for activity runs.

Activity bus runs (bus service associated with a school extra-curricular activity) will be conducted pursuant to the above noted policy. A block time (range of time) will be established for each activity bus service and publicized. It shall be the parent’s responsibility to become informed of this block time (either by calling the School, or otherwise obtaining the times) and to be at the site during that range of time. If the bus should be late, it is the parent’s responsibility to wait for its arrival. Inclement weather and other conditions may make it impossible to arrive at the site at the scheduled time.

It remains the parent’s responsibility to insure that their student/child is picked-up at the time that the student disembarks from the bus. It is impossible for the School to adjust for each individual student; therefore, school bus drivers are under orders to drop-off students at the designated points at the designated times and proceed with their duties. To reiterate, it is then the parent’s responsibility to pick-up their child/student at that point, at that time.