POTTSTOWN PA – The bus schedules are coming. Pottsgrove School District bus schedules for the 2010-2011 school year really are coming, district Business Administrator David Nester promises … they’re just not ready yet.

Soon to be rolling, with video cameras on.

Once the buses roll, though, parents also should be aware their students will be on the district’s version of Candid Camera.

A volume of instant messages, Tweets, e-mails and search engine hits that have flooded The Post during the past two weeks give strong indication parents are anxious to know when and where district buses, piloted by CMD Transportation Services of Pottstown, will pick up their children as schools open later this month. Last year’s schedules were available by Aug. 7.

Personnel transitions have created a slight delay, but “we are hoping to have them posted next week,” Nester said of the schedules Thursday afternoon (Aug. 12, 2010) in an e-mail reply to a Post inquiry. “It’s taking a bit longer to get them done this year,” Nester explained.

As it did last year, The Post will offer online links as soon as available to all Pottsgrove schools’ busing schedules – for Lower Pottsgrove Elementary, Ringing Rocks (now at the former St. Pius X High School on North Keim Street), and West Pottsgrove, and the middle and high schools – as well as those for services provided by the district to Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, Coventry Christian Academy, St. Aloysius, and West-Mont Christian Academy.

When students are aboard district buses they will be electronically monitored, Nester also advised, in a memo dated Wednesday (Aug. 11) and posted on the district website.

The policy is not new, simply re-stated. Most district buses were equipped several years ago with cameras that record both video and audio, Nester’s memo said, and all newly purchased  buses now come with cameras too. “We are notifying you that your children may be videotaped during their bus rides to and from school,” he wrote to parents on the district’s behalf.

“These tapes are only viewed if there is an issue that occurs on the bus that administration deems important enough to investigate,” Nester wrote.

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