Cambridge News | 13 July 2018

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Left in the lurch By Claire Castle

Parents on the Leamington side of the river have been left scrambling, after a Ministry of Education ruling which means Year 9 and 10 students will be ineligible to catch the bus to Cambridge High School from the start of next term. Ministry rules mean the students have to catch the bus to their closest available school – in this case, Cambridge Middle School, which takes students from Year 7 to Year 10. This rule has always been in place, but not enforced, however a letter to the parents from Cambridge Travel Lines said Year 9s are not allowed on the bus anymore due to “loading issues”. The Ministry of Education’s Head of Education Infrastructure Service, Kim Shannon, said Cambridge Travel Lines alerted the Ministry to the fact that the high school bus service was reaching capacity. “Once the capacity of eligible students is reached we are required to offload students who are not eligible for transport assistance. In some cases, or some days, not all eligible students take the bus to school which can be interpreted as the bus not being full,” Kim said, explaining why students have reported that the bus routinely has spare seats. Year 9s were selected to be “offloaded”, with Year 10s next on the list should bus capacity be reached, as they are also technically ineligible for the service to the high school. One of the students affected is Year 9 Annika Johns, whose mother Natascha posted on the Cambridge Grapevine Facebook page to see if others were in the same plight. Natascha said Annika has been granted an exemption for Term three and can still catch the bus because the rules require a term’s notice and their letter in June did not give enough warning. Continued on page 3

Natascha and Hayden Johns will have to find another way for their Year 9 daughter to get to Cambridge High due to a Ministry of Education ruling, while their Year 12 son can continue to catch the bus.

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