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Students, parents urge board to remove district buses from Western Middle School; staff say parking search continues
Summary
Students and parents told the Greenwich Board of Education that district buses parked at Western Middle School are creating safety, congestion and learning disruptions. Transportation staff updated the board on the search for a permanent lot and said a DOT request to park under I‑95 was denied.
Henry Mateo Tejada, a seventh‑grade student at Western Middle School, told the Board of Education the buses parked at his school have made drop‑off and pick‑up unsafe, disrupted instruction with frequent reversing beeps and left the adjacent field rutted and unusable.
“My evidence proves that the students inhaling exhaust can prove to have major health risks,” Henry said during public comment, describing an informal survey he performed about students losing focus when buses beep during class.
Grace Natali,…
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