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Posted: 11:07 p.m. Monday, Aug. 20, 2012

Parents Voice Concern Over Bus Route

By Rich Wisniewski

BROOKVILLE, Pa —

At Monday night's school board meeting, the Brookville School Board said there would be no discussions, but they did open the floor up for comments, and they got them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Brookville School Board didn't make any decision at their meeting, but they did let the parents vent. They told six news earlier in the month that the decision to cut the vans is because of financial concerns regarding the school budget but parents don't want to hear it. Some add, that budget cuts could be made somewhere else. 

"The safety of these kids should be your first concern.," said one parent.

The concerns regarding a students safety come after the school cut back its transportation program. So many kids who were once picked up by vans because they lived on rural roads where buses don't go, would now have to walk a mile and a half to the regular bus route. So many parents are concerned because many of the roads that their kids will have to walk are small roads with no speed limits and there's no lights. Which makes the mile walk even more dangerous when the kids have to catch the school bus at 6:30 in the morning.

While parents like Jennifer Fitzgerald are angry about the vans being cut too. She agrees that the walk is dangerous because it's dark,  but she also has another concern.

"We have 23 sex offenders within seven miles of where I live at," said Fitzgerald.

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