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By including the parents or
guardians in this process, this helps by familiarizing parents with school bus operations and equipment and to provide consistency to the children by both parties giving the same message to the child as they transition to the public school system.❞
But, there are no procedures in place to prepare students for their graduation to elementary school buses. Ramos is currently working with her director of transportation to develop something for the next school year. “A transitioning activity on riding
buses without restraints and seat belts is a viable idea and should be provided for those children who will be moving on to elementary school,” said Ramos. “We will be researching this concept so that we may include it in our transitioning curriculum this year.” Like in Lee’s Summit, Child Start
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