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Using coaches or small school buses provides some relief to the school system for point-to-point bus runs for students who live in remote areas (“Smaller Opens in a new tab vehicles could solve school bus Opens in a new tabshortage Opens in a new tab,” Star-Advertiser, March 13). School buses, no matter the size, can be equipped for special needs students to meet federal specifications.
Now, if you add more and more small school buses to transport regular education students, guess what? It requires more bus drivers and exacerbates the problem.
Another solution is to stagger school bell times so a bus driver would drive routes for more than one or two schools. Tiering school bell times works for the smallest and largest school systems in the country. Hawaii just doesn’t want to face the music and help solve the issue.
Not easy, but parents, principals, teachers, administrators and the union would just need to work together. The time has come to at least start the discussion.
Mark Lindstrom
Ala Moana
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