NEILLSVILLE ELEMENTARY WORKS ON SCHOOL BUS SAFETY
Monday, October 24th, 2011 -- 12:44 PM
Neillsville K-6 students are focusing on school bus safety.The school's record-keeping system, which tracks areas where kids have behavior problems, flagged school buses as an area that could use improvement.
School leaders are trying to remind their over 500 elementary students that good classroom behavior should be carried onto the bus, according to Elementary/Middle School Principal Tim Rueth.
"One of the things that people always seem to deal with is bullying," Rueth explains. "Those types of things that, while I'd love to make them disappear with my magic wand, are things that we have to deal with on the school bus, on the playground and the classroom all the time."
Students celebrated School Bus Safety Week last week with door decorating contests and a reiteration of school bus safety rules. "Kids were encouraged to put the rules into their own words," Reuth says.
The effort continues with special coupons kids can earn just for being good.
"Bus drivers will give out 'caught being good' coupons to students that they catch, essentially, doing what they're supposed to be doing," he says.
Neillsville has 11 bus routes, and Rueth says the large majority of elementary students ride the bus to and from school.
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