Options for South End schools to be presented at meeting

May 18, 2010- 3:18 PM

By: Sudbury Northern Life Staff

An accommodation review committee set up by the Rainbow District School Board will present options for its schools in the South End of Sudbury May 18.

The meeting will take place in the auditorium at Lockerby Composite School starting at 6:30 p.m.

The public will have an opportunity to provide input on the options at the next public meeting about the accommodation review, which will take place June 15, at 6:30 pm at Lockerby Composite School.

Sudbury South area schools include Alexander Public School, Algonquin Road Public School, Long Lake Public School, MacLeod Public School, Monetville Public School, R.L. Beattie Public School, Wanup Public School, Lockerby Composite School and Lo-Ellen Park Secondary School.

For more information about the board’s accommodation review process, visit rainbowschools.ca and click on “Sudbury South Accommodation” under highlights on the homepage.

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Concernedcitizen 5/20/2010 6:13:06 PM - Report Abuse

School bus seats are designed to protect children in the case of an accident. It is hard enough to get them all to sit properly and stay in their seats as it is. Can't imagine adding a belt to that! Imagine an accident with the added seat belts that are not buckled swinging around. Not to mention on a normal day the metal on those belts could easily be used as a weapon. There is not a board in Ontario that would have enough money to have adult monitors to assist in all that would be needed if belts were added. And drivers have enough to deal with as it is! (Yes, I am a bus driver) And it is not 30+ children, most buses are packed to 72 kids!!

...... that is not what this article is about anyway!
99gt 5/19/2010 2:03:30 PM - Report Abuse

School Bus, coach, city bus..all the same thing.

Let's get real here though. You know how difficult it would be to get 30+ children under 10 to buckle up and remain buckled up?...forget about the teenagers.
mrsb 5/18/2010 9:01:19 PM - Report Abuse

I hope none of these schools close. They are all good schools. What it boils down to is , is it cheaper to bus the kids than to keep the school open. Makes a good case for home schooling. Why are we putting 4&5 year olds on a bus with no safety seats and no seat belts. If a parent or any one else transported a child in such a manner they would be fined and considered neglectful. Yet the government persists in allowing this on a school bus SHAME!!