LESLIE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
RESPONSIBILITY
OF PUPILS RIDING SCHOOL BUSES
INFORMATION
SHEET
1. It is necessary to FOLLOW THE DIRECTION OF THE DRIVER.
2. Students must remain quiet at ALL railroad crossings.
3. Students who walk from one school
to another without permission will be ticketed.
4. Students are expected to remain
properly seated at all times when the bus is in operation.
5. No part of the body and no objects
shall be extended outside of the window.
6. All emergency exits on the bus are
to be used only in cases of
emergency.
7. Eating, drinking, smoking, chewing
tobacco, gambling and possession of intoxicants or illegal substances on buses
is prohibited.
8. Animals, weapons, knives, glass
containers, fireworks and radios larger than pocket size are not permitted on
or around buses.
9. Inappropriate language including
profanity will not be tolerated on the buses.
10. Students are not permitted to activate
any of the controls on a bus including door handles.
11. Each rider is expected to behave in
such a way as is unlikely to injure others or damage property.
12. To maintain regular schedules students
are expected to be at their pick up location approximately ten minutes before normal pick up times.
13. Students
who must cross a road to board a bus are expected to stay on the side of the
road where they live until the bus arrives.
They should then cross only after
all traffic has stopped for the stopped school bus, which has activated its
alternately flashing red stoplights.
When leaving the bus, students who must cross the road are expected to
cross ten (10) feet in front of the bus.
14. Pupils should notify the driver in
advance when they do not intend to ride the bus.
15. A
written request from the parents to the driver and principal's office or verbal
contact to the bus garage and
principal's
office will be necessary before a student may be admitted or discharged at a
stop other than
their
regular stop or ride a bus route other than their regular route.
16. In case of road emergencies or
accidents not involving the bus, students shall remain in the bus unless
instructed differently by
the driver.
17. Pupils may be suspended immediately
from riding a school bus for failure to follow these rules or when their actions, in any way, are
considered detrimental to the rights, safety and property of others or control
of the bus.