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Post by Anonymous on Aug 24, 2013 8:02:46 GMT -6
Why are kids on a bus route being driven to school anyway? If they qualify for bus service, they should be required to ride. This would cut down on the traffic. And the bus kids should leave first On orientation day they don't provide bus service. They should though. The entire way our district goes about registering and distributing information could use an overhaul, too.
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Post by job on Aug 24, 2013 8:47:32 GMT -6
For a school district that has serious money problems, it is surprising that the district provides bus service. I know that when I was a kid, there was no bus service for grade school kids. In accordance with Illinois law, only kids who live a mile and a half from school are entitled to bus transportation. 105 ILCS 5/29-3 How many kids in town live over a mile and a half from where they attend school?
(105 ILCS 5/29-3) (from Ch. 122, par. 29-3) Sec. 29-3. Transportation in school districts. School boards of community consolidated districts, community unit districts, consolidated districts, consolidated high school districts, optional elementary unit districts, combined high school - unit districts, combined school districts if the combined district includes any district which was previously required to provide transportation, and any newly created elementary or high school districts resulting from a high school - unit conversion, a unit to dual conversion, or a multi-unit conversion if the newly created district includes any area that was previously required to provide transportation shall provide free transportation for pupils residing at a distance of one and one-half miles or more from any school to which they are assigned for attendance maintained within the district, except for those pupils for whom the school board shall certify to the State Board of Education that adequate transportation for the public is available. For the purpose of this Act 1 1/2 miles distance shall be from the exit of the property where the pupil resides to the point where pupils are normally unloaded at the school attended; such distance shall be measured by determining the shortest distance on normally traveled roads or streets. Such school board may comply with the provisions of this Section by providing free transportation for pupils to and from an assigned school and a pick-up point located not more than one and one-half miles from the home of each pupil assigned to such point. For the purposes of this Act "adequate transportation for the public" shall be assumed to exist for such pupils as can reach school by walking, one way, along normally traveled roads or streets less than 1 1/2 miles irrespective of the distance the pupil is transported by public transportation. In addition to the other requirements of this Section, each school board may provide free transportation for any pupil residing within 1 1/2 miles from the school attended where conditions are such that walking, either to or from the school to which a pupil is assigned for attendance or to or from a pick-up point or bus stop, constitutes a serious hazard to the safety of the pupil due to vehicular traffic or rail crossings. Such transportation shall not be provided if adequate transportation for the public is available. The determination as to what constitutes a serious safety hazard shall be made by the school board, in accordance with guidelines promulgated by the Illinois Department of Transportation, in consultation with the State Superintendent of Education. A school board, on written petition of the parent or guardian of a pupil for whom adequate transportation for the public is alleged not to exist because the pupil is required to walk along normally traveled roads or streets where walking is alleged to constitute a serious safety hazard due to vehicular traffic or rail crossings, or who is required to walk between the pupil's home and assigned school or between the pupil's home or assigned school and a pick-up point or bus stop along roads or streets where walking is alleged to constitute a serious safety hazard due to vehicular traffic or rail crossings, shall conduct a study and make findings, which the Department of Transportation shall review and approve or disapprove as provided in this Section, to determine whether a serious safety hazard exists as alleged in the petition. The Department of Transportation shall review the findings of the school board and shall approve or disapprove the school board's determination that a serious safety hazard exists within 30 days after the school board submits its findings to the Department. The school board shall annually review the conditions and determine whether or not the hazardous conditions remain unchanged. The State Superintendent of Education may request that the Illinois Department of Transportation verify that the conditions have not changed. No action shall lie against the school board, the State Superintendent of Education or the Illinois Department of Transportation for decisions made in accordance with this Section. The provisions of the Administrative Review Law and all amendments and modifications thereof and the rules adopted pursuant thereto shall apply to and govern all proceedings instituted for the judicial review of final administrative decisions of the Department of Transportation under this Section. (Source: P.A. 94-439, eff. 8-4-05; 95-903, eff. 8-25-08.)
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Post by Anonymous on Aug 25, 2013 12:00:46 GMT -6
Job you have to live a mile and a half away to ride the bus here. Where we live our kids can ride a bus to SHS but kids just three blocks to the West are too close and can't ride. The elementary district the last few years has also allowed parents to pay for bus service who otherwise wouldn't be eligible. Typically there weren't a lot of bus riders to the neighborhood elementary schools but with Oakland closed now and the reshuffling of classes, there are some who live more than a mile and a half from their school and are bused.
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Post by Anonymous on Jul 30, 2014 6:27:58 GMT -6
Here's to hoping that on this year's Orientation Day we don't get a repeat of last years when it comes to the traffic jam at Northlawn. I'm not holding my breath though.
It would also be nice if the schools kept their websites updated. Those need a total overhaul.
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Post by father of two on Jul 30, 2014 11:28:54 GMT -6
Yes it was. To keep Oakland open as opposed to Sherman would have cost an additional $250,000 for bussing.
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Post by capncrunch on Jul 30, 2014 11:49:54 GMT -6
What ever happened to that group that thought they was all high and mighty and was trying to change things with the school district? There was not much change that they did, now was there?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2014 13:04:47 GMT -6
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Post by capncrunch on Jul 30, 2014 17:51:56 GMT -6
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Post by maskedmarvel on Jul 31, 2014 18:22:52 GMT -6
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Post by evaryman on Aug 1, 2014 16:29:36 GMT -6
The summer break surely seems like it passed very quickly:(
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2014 18:17:47 GMT -6
I read all the stuff on the site you gave. What particularly struck me was the comparison of administrations and their salaries between Pontiac, Streator, and Ottawa. Why do we have an asst. supt. and why are we paying Wilkinson waaaaaay more than the other two school's supts? Why the hell does Northlawn have a 100K a year "Dean of Students?" Who may THAT be?
I take it that you're "cool" with it all? (you not wantin' to raise a ruckus and act all "high and mighty" and all......)
Why?
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Post by capncrunch on Aug 1, 2014 20:41:46 GMT -6
Actually, no I'm not okay with this. But the parents that started this group, have good intention, but I believe that they went about the situation the wrong way. I think that there should of been more of a hissy fit on these wages. To me the wages of some of these staff members should be cut and put into the school system and not cut programs. I understand that these people went to school and furthered their education. I, too, went to school and have more than a high school education, but I do not make and never have made over $100,000 per year. I have made a decent wage and at least feel like I earned the things that I have. These education staff that are making over $100,000 are actually taking away from the future and don't seem to care. And I will admit, I also don't have an answer on how to handle or go about how to make a change neither. I also do not think they need a Dean of Students, or an assistant principal, at Northlawn. I also do not this that there should be an Assistance Supt. All of those postions could also help put back money into the school district or back into teachers to educate the future. I also don't think they need as many people in that office at Northlawn neither. I think they need the teachers, prior to have those extra people in the school. And if they want to get rid of teachers, maybe consider replacing the teachers that have been in the school district for a decent amount of time, and get new teachers in that the salary is lower. But this is my opinion.
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Post by maskedmarvel on Aug 2, 2014 6:58:01 GMT -6
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