File: EEAEC (also JICC)

STUDENT CONDUCT ON SCHOOL BUSES

While the law requires the school system to furnish transportation, it does not relieve parents of students from the responsibility of supervision until such time as the child boards the bus in the morning and after the child leaves the bus at the end of the school day.

In view of the fact that a bus is an extension of the classroom, the School Committee will require children to conduct themselves on the bus in a manner consistent with established standards for classroom behavior.

In cases when a child does not conduct him/herself properly on a bus, he/she will be disciplined in accordance with the School Committee approved rules governing student conduct on the school buses.

Children who become a serious disciplinary problem on the school bus will lose bus privileges. In such cases, the parents of the children involved will become responsible for seeing that their children get to and from school safely.

LEGAL REFS.: M.G.L. 71:68