Please make this happen. At least for the freshman and maybe sophomores. If you have more than 1 child attending different schools, it makes it nearly impossible to get everyone off on time in the morning. Mornings are pretty hectic alone... We appreciate your consideration. Sophie my rising sophomore attends Columbus Academy, Juliette and Stefan attend Bexley, and my youngest attends Columbus Torah Academy. Thank you

The high school students would be a great help as well. Discipline can be challenging on the bus and currently the bus monitors are 6 and 7 graders. Having high school students on the bus can promote bus safety and aid the bus driver in managing disruptive children. As many of the high schoolers siblings already ride the bus this would add to support to the driver without adding extra work. thank you.

Bexley should do its part to service its citizens whilst encouraging fewer cars on the roads. It's absurd that transportation stops to alternative schools once the kids graduate from 8th grade...especially when the buses are still going to those same schools with empty seats.

P.S. For what it's worth and as a reference, we believe Bexley is the only remaining jurisdiction that still doesn't provide transportation to Academy beyond the eighth grade (i.e. the Arlington, Westerville, Blacklick, Columbus and other area buses all transport classmates into the high school years).

With all due respect, this is a no-brainer decision that should've been made a long long time ago… It is such a burden to have a kid take the bus to Academy through eighth grade and then all the sudden have to drive them there and pick them up every day thereafter – Way way way too onerous on a family and so unnecessary

Allowing high school students to ride the bus when space allows will be extremely helpful for working parents of younger high school students who do not yet drive.

I HAVE A DAUTHER IN 9TH GRADE. SHE IS STUDING IN CTA THANK YOU

Oh, the issue is that they do not want to create a high school busing program. What they are not going to tell you is, they already have one. That's right. They have one, and what they do for one High School kid, they have to do for the rest of them, They agreed to the terms of Eastland Career Center to move kids who can not help them be internationally ranked, and as part of that agreement, they must transport 9-12. They hide this by contracting with Eastland Career center to send a bus, and then getting some kind of deal with Groveport madison to bus the kids to Oakstone. They have been refusing to let a hand full of high school kids on that bus since it started running. They send a full sized bus to drive 7 or 8 kids, while 5 or 6 families drive daily from Bexley to Westerville. We have asked every single year for a ride on that bus. 8 long years, and we have spent well over $35 k to drive our kids to a school where they would not be bullied and sexually harassed by the great kids who can't be prosecuted for even huge violations of the sexual harassment policy unless they do it a second time. Yes, that is correct folks, if your autistic kid is singled out in the gym when she is 11 and left alone with the class, and the boys in that class surround her, and the other autistic looser in the class and proceed to tell them that no one is ever going to want either one of them so they might as well just get it over with and "do it" right now for all of them to see, then they begin to laugh and jeer and shout "do it" over and over again, until the teacher comes back, catches them enjoying making two kids with autism humiliated and crushed, and the boys were made to apologize, after they admitted what they did, and if, say, one of the autistic kids leaves school to tell his mother what happened, because of course, he is very upset, and the one mother informs the other mother what happened to her autistic kid today at school, and that mother has to be the one to