Should Hatboro-Horsham Scale Back Buses?
Parents responded negatively to Hatboro-Horsham School District's announcement that a reduction in busing for extra-curricular activities was under consideration.
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The Hatboro-Horsham School District announced this week that, as a cost-cutting measure to help close a budget shortfall, buses for after-school activities could be cut from five days a week to once a week at Keith Valley Middle School.
In dozens of comments posted here on Patch, readers offered various opinions on the issue. Some said the district should not provide after school busing at all, while said the solution is to have "less officials at the top." Still others suggested that administrators take a pay cut, while others called it "insulting" that busing could be reduced for a savings of less than $40,000 a year.
What do you think is the best approach to providing busing, or do you think parents should pick up students from after school activities?
Share your thoughts in our poll, or comment below this article.
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Leigh
8:35 am on Monday, March 11, 2013
Is there a difference between the third and fourth option?
Cora Rowe
5:31 pm on Wednesday, March 13, 2013
If there is no busing, it's the children who suffer. Many parents work too late to pick up their children. At my job, we are told we have to stay 'til 6 o'clock, or else.
Bill Rollin
6:19 pm on Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Im a student, and half the time the 4:15 buses are full. But there is always sports the 5:20 buses are almost standing room only in the fall and spring. If the district were to get rid of the after school busing then we would also have to cut the sports program, extra curricular activities and extra help with teachers. Because of the fact that its the end of the year not many people except athletes like myself are staying after school. With only 30+ more days of school left, it would be a terrible decision to cut the busing now. Being in my last year at KV and going on to HHHS next year, I probably will have no opinion. But what about the incoming class and the 7th soon to be 8th graders. The district needs to understand that there has to be something else that they could cut. And music is not one. Nor after school transportation or athletics.