PARENT RESPONSIBILITIES

 

 

1.      To cooperate fully with school principals, the transportation coordinator, school bus contractor, and bus drivers to ensure prompt, safe, and responsible transportation to all entitled student riders.

 

2.      To encourage and insist upon proper bus behavior on the part of their own children.

 

3.      To refrain from requesting or seeking to arrange school bus transportation for relatives, friends, or other ineligible riders, or seek temporary changes of bus assignments to accommodate personal reasons.*

 

4.      To make certain that children are waiting on time at the scheduled stop and that their child’s behavior is proper during the wait.

 

5.      To inform the school principal if there are health problems affecting a child’s riding a school bus.

 

6.      To notify the school principal beforehand when a student rider is not to take the bus and/or some adult including the parent is to provide transportation.

 

7.      To make appropriate arrangements for a student to get to school if the student missed the scheduled bus transportation or is temporarily denied transportation for disciplinary reasons.

 

8.      To report promptly to the school principal any matters of his/her proper concern regarding school bus transportation.

 

9.      To make certain that kindergarten and transitional students are supervised at their scheduled stops before school and upon returning from school.

 

 

* Emergency arrangements may be made by the school principal to accommodate special unavoidable situations.