CHANGE IN PLANS: 90 Minute Delayed Busing and Public School Opening

bus snowAll public and non-public schools will be on a 90 minute delayed opening schedule for Board of Education-provided school buses this morning, TLS has confirmed. 

“Due to concerns with icy conditions, the schedule has been changed for this morning to a 90 minute delayed opening,” the BOE said.

Which means, the Public Schools will be opening 90 minutes late, and non-public busing will be delayed as well.

As of last night, the busing was on time, but was the decision was made a short time ago based on the road conditions.

Check with your child’s private school for an exact opening schedule.

[TLS]

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19 COMMENTS

  1. Exactly what is accomplished by this delay of 90 minutes?
    Is the ice suddenly going to melt?
    Now there will be more cars with parents on the roads near all the schools rushing to drop off their children as the schools are starting on time and so are the workplaces!
    Who gets to make this ridiculous decision?

  2. To sl2

    I get what you are saying. The one thing I will say is that with icy conditions driving in pitch black vs light can make a big difference. So for teachers that maybe would have left their house at 6 am now leave at 7:30 when it is light out and they are more likely to see ice.

  3. The ice does melt. From the time my son gets in his bus at 8 until my girls get on at 9 there is a huge diff. When we had that big rain my son came back in to warn us of the ice but when my daughters left there was none. The non public schools are not following the 90 minute delay – so that you shouldn’t have problems with work – so your losing your bussing. The ice shou od have melted by then. Which would you rather? Bussing 90 minutes late or to drive your children on time? Stop complaining! This is a small inconvenience for the safety of your children.

  4. Not a ridiculous decision, a hard choice that will bring on criticism and all the other stuff people sound off about. Deal with it, you don’t hold the monopoly on challenging mornings.

  5. in my opinion most parents took their children to school being that school is starting on time. I’m sitting on Oak Street for a half hour and I’m still not at my destination. with a 90 minute delay you’re not accomplishing much because no one is waiting at home to get picked up. either there should have been a regular busing on time or no busing at all

  6. I am not complaining about the drive to the school.
    I was out 6:20 there was enough light to see the roads which all seemed pretty clear out.
    My main issue is that by having so many parents self transport their children to school as they can not wait for the bus until 10:00 or later can increase hazardous conditions more so than having the school buses on the road at the regular time.

  7. Would have been great if schools could have coordinated and either all done no transportation with on time start or 90 min delay with bussing. I drove around town for an hour to get to school on time only to have a 90 min delay for playgroup since her kids started 90 min delay! How silly. Could have stayed home and put kids on the bus 90 min late (and let them sleep late) aa couldn’t get to work anyway!!

    I Understand the decision was out of our control but coordination among schools would have been nice.

  8. there should be some law that if there is a delay on busing there should be extra policeman at congestion point to ease traffic. the BOE has way too much power in this town!!!
    some people were driving this morning with there eyes closed going into difficult intersections.

  9. if there is delayed bussing the private schools should go along with that and start school 11/2 hours late. the traffic this morning was a nightmare–oak st, new hampshire, pine st, ave of americas, martin luther…. there was no way to go without being in a standstill on this part of town. there are too many schools in one area and when each parent drives alone the amount of cars is not normal!!

  10. If there is a delay of 90 minutes for bus runs that usually means the schools start 90 min later. Adjust your schools schedule to match. I have busses going down the street EMPTY, a waste of money because parents couldn’t wait for delay. You think public schools children’s parents don’t have to make adjustments to their mornings. They do it for SAFETY.

  11. It seems all schools in other towns in Ocean county were on delayed opening. Lakewood has more school children to transport , let’s keep them safe.

  12. Why risk the lives of many people because you don’t want to wait 90min.it effects every one but safety first. Roads were icy.all have to be considerable of every ones situation.

  13. Lakewood also shares busses with other school districts.
    Many other ditricts started late fir various reasons, one possibly, lakewood shares buses with another dustrict, many teachers live 2 hrs away, call outs, accidentx! Safe than sorry, these are children!

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