Transportation
Hudsonville Public School district cooperates well in providing
transportation for our students. It is important that we cooperate with
them and follow their transportation policy carefully.
- Hudsonville Public School recognizes that the responsibility for
safety and supervision of students going to and from school is a shared
responsibility of the students, parents, and transportation and school
staff.
- It is the responsibility of the parent or guardian to provide for the
child's safety to and from the bus stop and to ensure that the child
arrives at the bus stop on time. Students must show respect for citizens
and for private property while waiting at a bus stop. In the event that
a child misses a bus, the parent or guardian is responsible for
providing alternative transportation. In the event that bus service is
delayed, parents and guardians should be prepared to assume
responsibility for the child's welfare until the bus arrives.
- It is the responsibility of every student who rides a school bus to
be ready at the assigned stop five minutes prior to the scheduled pickup
time. If a student is not ready at the stop on time the driver will
continue the route. The driver will not return for a student who is not
at the bus stop on time.
- Pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, and certain special education
students may require a family member or guardian to receive then at the
end of the ride home at the scheduled drop off time. If in the judgment
of the driver the student's safety is in question the student will
remain on the bus while the driver initiates the following procedure:
- The driver contacts dispatch and dispatch telephones the parent or
guardian.
- If no parent or guardian is contacted, dispatch telephones the school
and requests emergency information.
- If there is no emergency contact made, the student is taken to a
pre-arranged location.
- The principal will contact the parent or guardian for a conference if
no family member is present to receive the student.
- The walking distances to a bus stop shall be as follows provided a
stop and route pattern can be established within legal and budgetary
requirements, i.e., secondary students can be expected to walk up to 1
/8 of a mile and no more than a ½ mile; elementary students can be
expected to walk up to 1/8 of a mile and no more than a ¼ mile.
- Each student is eligible for transportation and will be assigned a
bus stop within the established bus route. Parents may request on a
limited basis a regularly scheduled alternate bus stop (i.e. day care),
which may be approved by the Transportation Director. This request must
be written and received by the Director no later than one week prior to
the change. Bus routes will not be changed to encompass an alternate bus
stop.
- Notes requesting a change in bus transportation WILL NOT be accepted
from Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten students.
- Students in grades 1-8 must present written instructions from a
parent in order to receive permission to ride a different bus from
school. Permission can also be granted if a voice message or e-mail is
received. If no such communication from a parent occurs, the student
must ride his/her regular assigned bus home.
- For the safety of all who ride buses, the items that may be taken
onto a school bus are limited to those that can be placed on a rider's
lap. Simply stated, if it cannot fit on a rider's lap, it cannot be taken
on the bus. This is a state law.
Motor driven vehicles may not be taken to school. Bicycles may not be
ridden on the playground. They must be properly parked on school
property and must not be tampered with while they are parked there.
Bicycle riders must know and obey traffic rules; bikes must be walked
across busy intersections. Students are encouraged to wait until bus
traffic is gone before leaving school on their bikes. Bikes taken to the
middle school must be placed in the fenced in area behind school and
left alone until after the school day is finished.
