RIDING THE BUS IS A PRIVILEGE

It is the right of every pupil being transported to receive this service in the safest possible manner. In order to insure this, it is necessary for all transported pupils to know, and to follow the rules and regulations set forth by the State and the local Board of Education. Parents of transported pupils are urged to help their children understand the importance of these rules as they relate to their personal safety.

Board Policy P7311, School Bus Denial, Suspension, or Revocation of Service, states in part:

Because of an overriding concern to provide safe transportation for pupils, the principal may deny, suspend, or revoke transportation privileges to individual pupils, groups of pupils, or an entire bus for continued disorderly conduct, persistent refusal to submit to the authority of the bus driver, or violation of the rules and regulations of Unified School District 259 and/or the Kansas State Highway Commission. When such action becomes necessary, the principal will notify parents of the pupils involved of the impending suspension of service.

RULES AND REGULATIONS
There shall be:

1. No improper boarding or departing procedures nor failure to be at bus stop on time.
2. No bringing articles aboard the bus of an injurious nature, lighting matches, or smoking on bus.
3. No refusing to obey the driver or para.
4. No fighting, making threats of bodily harm, pushing, tripping, hitting, spitting, littering, or eating on the bus.
5. No failure to remain seated failure to fasten seatbelt or keep it on.
6. No hanging out of window, throwing objects in, out or at bus.
7. No unnecessary noise, or rude discourteous and annoying conduct relating to the safety and welfare of others.
8. No tampering with bus equipment or destruction of property.
9. No use of profane language, gestures, writings.
10. No Non-deliverability, when applicable.