By COLlive reporter
The New York City Department of Education has notified principals and administrators of schools around the city of a possible disruption in yellow bus service this coming week.
The city’s current contracts to transport children with disabilities will expire at the end of June 2013 and will be replaced with competitive bidding.
“Last year, when a bid was requested under similar circumstances, the bus drivers’ union threatened to go on strike. We anticipate the possibility of a similar response at this time,” said Elizabeth Rose of the Division of Operations.
The city has shipped a package of MetroCards to schools for general education and ambulatory special education students who are currently registered for yellow busing.
Yellow busing that is likely to be affected in the Crown Heights area are:
Bais Rivkah School – OPT code 17703
Bais Rivka High School – School OPT code 17702
Bnos Menachem – School OPT code 17790
Beis Chaya Mushka – School OPT code 17625
Oholei Torah School – OPT code 17828
Lubavitch Yeshiva – Crown Street School OPT code 17720
Darchei Menachem – School OPT code 17894
HASC on Remsen Avenue – School OPT code 18709
Stay tuned to COLlive.com for updates.
you probably live close to your school and so your saying that but my oldest daughter is 10 and she has 6 girls under her that are able to go to school and i work early morning so she is meant to walk a 25 minute walk with 6 kids?
#1 is right. only toddlers and very little ones should have a car ride. and if you have a car bring them instead of subjecting your kid to the awful experience of a long bus ride to and from home.
11 years olds should walk together to school.
if you don’t have a car and have many small children, your spouse should being the kids or they should learn to walk themselves, with nearby classmates. you’re so spoiled you don’t even know it.
my daughter had similar feelings….
Your daughter can take a car service & as long as you get a receipt & your daughter is currently getting busing, you can get reimbursed.
what we will do if my child has a disabilities and can not walk???
Worse than the possible stop in bus service is the horrifying note that Jofaz bus drivers gave out to the children last week (which of course the children read before giving it to their parents). They use scare tactics to try to influence parents to call the Mayor’s office to support their position. The notes implore parents not to put their children in DANGER by allowing the bus companies to send in inexperienced drivers to replace striking drivers. Now my daughter is afraid to go to school in the morning, not knowing which morning she will get on the bus… Read more »
ch is no longer a four by four neighborhood ever heard of st johns? rutland? rochester? we dont all live on crown and kingston and in any case ot has a school in east flatbush it is NOT walking distance even for those living as far as rutland and schenechtaty
I agree with you.
You are so insensitive!
I live 20 minutes walk from Bais Rivkah
I do not have a car, should I shlep all my babies every morning in the freezing cold and take my kids to school? I think you are the lazy spoiled one!
I don’t think you would expect a 5 year old or even an 11 year old to walk from schenectady & eastern parkway to brooklyn & lefferts by herself.
Most klds taken by bus should walk to school, even if there is no strike. There is no school in crown heights that is not in walking distance from any home in crown heights. lazy, spoiled structure.