Crowded BOCES buses spark student protest
Source: By Simon Shifrin, Times Herald-Record (NY)m October 12, 2007
They're tired of riding three to a seat. Some sit in the aisle with seat belts wrapped across their bodies because they don't fit on the packed seats. So yesterday, some of these Pine Bush High School students took a stand.
"C'mon. C'mon. C'mon," one girl yelled. "C'mon let's go. Let's get off the bus!"
A group of students who attend afternoon classes at Orange-Ulster BOCES filed off their two, typically packed buses in protest.
....... That's why, Stark said, administrators put in a request back on Sept. 12 with the district's bus company, First Student Inc., for an additional vehicle at noon. But she said the bus company had been unable to hire an additional driver.