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Minneapolis high schools to shift to riding on the bus,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
Over the next two years, Minneapolis Public Schools will move 4,900 high school students off yellow school buses and provide them metro bus passes. It's the first metro district to make the switch, that is being greeted with both enthusiasm and trepidation.
The district said hello aims to increase flexibility for high schoolers. The advantage, said Courtney Cushing Kiernat, the district's lead worker on the switch, is the fact that students no more is going to be limited to school bus runs and one after-school activity bus,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and could arrive early or stay late. They'll lose the excuse of missing school because they missed the bus.
In Minneapolis, only high schoolers who live a lot more than two miles (one mile for North High School) from soccer practice now ride school buses. Roughly 2,600 students will join them this fall,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], from all but South and Southwest high schools, where 2,300 students will switch a year later. Also getting passes next fall will be students who live within two miles of faculty but are eligible for free or discount school lunches, a move the district said is welcomed by south side Latino parents who worry about harassment of students dealing with school on foot.
Susanna Engel, a Southwest junior, got her bus pass early because she's active in citywide student government,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], also it allows her to bus crosstown to district headquarters in northeast Minneapolis for meetings. It also lets her commute towards the Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], where she volunteers. "It's a really safe way to get around," she said.
But on the other end of town, parents, teachers and students at Patrick Henry Senior high school worry that the switch will drive away Hmong students,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], who constitute nearly half from the student body, in addition to Latino students.
"These are parents who frequently don't want their kids on the city bus," said teacher Eva Lockhart. "They do not view them as safe."
Ze Thao already utilizes a bus pass she buys with earnings from her Walker Art Center job. The Henry senior is within her second year of commuting from Mendota Heights to Henry following a family move. to have an odyssey through downtown St. when buses take presctiption time,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but often not until well into first hour. School policy requires tardy students to stay outside their classroom or go to an in-school detention room until second hour.
Thao said men frequently hit on her about the bus, asking where she's going,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], requesting her telephone number, attempting to text her, regardless of the presence of her sophomore brother.
But Kiernat said students actually might be safer because they will be with adults on buses and have use of transit police, and several students live closer to metro bus routes than they do to school bus routes now.
Metro Transit spokesman John Siqveland said high school and college students already take Tens of millions of trips annually by transit bus without incident. He said the machine has beefed up the hours plainclothes and uniformed police take presctiption buses, which transit crime has dropped 45 percent in four years.
Still, at Henry, some worry that Hmong enrollment may melt away to charter or suburban schools because it did at North in the past once the Hmong students didn't feel safe on their way to college. Many switched to Hopkins.
Parent Mary Maddox,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], co-chair of the school council,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], said either she or her husband usually drops off their 11th-grader at school but they're comfortable with Metro Transit. But a Hmong friend of her daughter would rather walk home than take a metro bus if she misses the school bus.
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