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Students and parents urge Waterbury Board to fix sports transportation and reconsider dress code at arts magnet school
Summary
Students, a parent and youth organizers urged the Waterbury Board of Education to provide consistent transportation for Waterbury Arts Magnet School athletes and to revisit dress-code rules they say limit student expression and create economic burdens.
Students, a parent and a youth engagement coordinator told the Waterbury Board of Education on May 2025 that lack of reliable transportation is keeping students at Waterbury Arts Magnet School from participating in sports and that the district’s dress code limits student expression and can be unaffordable.
At the public comment period, Lewis McConner, 18, a senior at Wilby High School, told the board, “My transportation matters. I find it really unfair that I go to a school similar things, compared to WIMS, but they don't have the same benefits that I have in high school.” He said some students pay for Ubers or rely on parents because “the bus company [is] not either giving them the buses that they need to get to those places.”
The concern about sports transportation was raised by multiple students. Donnie Burton, 17 and a…
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