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Sarah Benton urges Brunswick County Schools to enforce bus seating separation for middle and high school students
Summary
At the April 14 board meeting, parent Sarah Benton told the board that district buses routinely mix middle- and high-school students without consistently enforced seating charts and urged the board to adopt and verify a policy separating age groups on shared routes to reduce foreseeable risk.
Sarah Benton told the Brunswick County Board of Education on April 14 that the district’s current practice of placing middle- and high-school students together on shared bus routes creates an “unmanaged environment” that raises foreseeable safety risks.
Benton said district policy requires assigned seating, but that requirement only reduces risk if…
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