reducing the cost of school transport make this week, the number of students attending school more than 60 mph without turning on the roads without sidewalks
looks late summer light stubble fields, a gentle breeze whispers through the trees and the birds sing merrily. But Honeypot Lane, near Chaiten school in East Sussex is not as idyllic as it sounds - if you are on foot, anyway. He is articulate, no sidewalks and the speed limit is 60 mph. Cars, trucks, tractors and horse boxes through a fierce buzzing, rotated to avoid pedestrians. During the school the road is filled with coaches bringing students in other areas.
But cuts in discretionary school transport by the County Council means that from this week some students who have taken a free bus to school now face walking on the road 2 , 5 miles from the near East Chiltington. It is safe to do so if accompanied by an adult, the local authority said.
activists, who collected 450 signatures on a petition against the changes, do not agree. They say it is dangerous and argue that asking parents to walk or even four hours a day, or give their children lifts could prevent them from working.
The number of students who are currently affected by the change in East Sussex is actually very low, but the problems of the situation shows that it plays across the country. School buses and reduced rates are declining across the country, Durham, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire in Peterborough, New Hampshire and Devon.
In an open letter to Michael Gove this week, a coalition of groups, including charities for children, teachers' unions and activists against poverty called the secretary of the Education to change the guidelines on what constitutes a safe route. They write: "Surely it can be a point in the foot, while saving for local authorities to increase costs to taxpayers elsewhere because hospital costs possible for an injured child, additional payments will benefit because parents can not work, and the loss of tax revenue as parents can not continue in their jobs or who choose not to return to work. "
current guidelines assume children will be accompanied by a responsible adult, ie roads councils can declare up to three miles long (or two for less than eight miles) safely, even if they are out have speed limits of 60 mph, with no sidewalks or no-offs, and are used for heavy commercial traffic. The signatories of the letter, which will include representatives of the nut and the ATL, the Child Poverty Task Force, Unison, gingerbread, children in England, grandparents Association and the Child Accident Prevention Trust require new legal guidelines that a road can not be considered if an 11 is able to walk alone.
also complain that because the children free school transport routes meals that are more than two miles long and therefore still take a bus to school while their peers at the foot of the class , the type of cuts seen in the East Sussex Students risks stigmatizing low-income families.
"Legal rules is simply crazy," said Father Esteban Israel.
Sarah Osborne, a Liberal Democrat Councillor for Lewes District Council, who heads the campaign to the East Chiltington, says that not everyone has access to a car to drive their children to school and in any case, the director n 'vehicles like the gates of the morning. The school also discourages cycling to school and not having to store the bikes because the roads are considered too dangerous.
single parents will be particularly affected. A mother who is alone, not being able to transport your child because it is working, says Osborne. "Even if there is a payment option - it may be possible through a bus provider nonprofit -. The cost will be hit hard it has a very low income, but now she works, she is not eligible for free school meals and transportation. "
Osborne fears families will be in rural areas, such cuts, adding that she knows a couple who retired from the East Chiltington movement this summer, when they realized that would be impossible to get your child to school because the two had to leave work early.
In 2008, a survey by ATL found that the lack of public transport and rising fuel costs significantly disadvantaged poor children living in the country, with 70% of teachers surveyed said transport problems, it is difficult for children to attend school or college.
"Lack of transportation is a key issue," said the union's general secretary, Mary Boustead. "This is now compounded by the slash and burn approach to government subsidies to local authorities, which means that 'it can not support bus services in rural areas. As always, the poorer you are, the more they are affected. " parental choice and sounds hollow when parents are unable to take their children to school, NUT general secretary Christine Blower said.
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