Story Created:
Aug 28, 2008 at 6:53 PM CST
Story Updated:
Aug 28, 2008 at 6:53 PM CST
The Corpus Christi Independent School District has started it's new school year with fewer school bus routes and this has resulted in a greater number of parents upset. This years routes have gone from 80 to 60 and does not include the same routes it did last year. This has a number of students crossing the busy intersection of Staples and Doddridge. That's an intersection where cars roll in and out of busy commercial parking lots. Add the number of students forced to cross the intersection in the morning and then again in the afternoon and you have a dangerous situation. Xavier Gonzales, the Chief Financial Officer with the district announced they've been busy restructuring the schedule een though it's only the third day of school. He says they tried to avoid major road construction and locations of sex offenders. Unfortunately, due to the high number of registerd sex offenders in some neighborhoods, they weren't able to avoid them. This year's schedule is worked out so that elementary students will walk no more than a half-mile, middle scool students three quarters of a mile and high school students no more than a mile. He also warns parents that this years bus schedule will not resemble last years and neither will next years. He adds if any concerned parent has questions about their child's schedule, simply contact the distict office or the transportation department. You can even log-on to the district website to get appropriate e-mails for each department.
Thursday, Aug 28 at 11:15 PM Jose jalapeno on a stick wrote ...
the whole bus thing just gives students even more reasons to hate school which make us stupider every day and just to think we used to be the smartest at math in the 90's and look at us now
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