With Monday's start to the new school year just around the corner, Monroe Public Schools released revised bus routes.
Bus routes for Masuk High School, Jockey Hollow Middle School, Monroe Elementary, Stepney Elementary, Fawn Hollow Elementary, and St. Jude School are all included with this story in pdf format. Check the captions for your child's school.
Bus routes will not be revised again until Sept. 14.
One of my biggest issues is seeing kids in my neighborhood having to walk around 10 minutes to get to a bus stop at 6:30 when the bus comes even in the dead and dark of winter. I live in Great Oak Farm, so some 15 kids walk this commute every day. It's bitter in the winter and dark. Yet I see some bus stops on other roads where the stops are literally 10 feet away. I worry a lot for the kids in my neighborhood. Imagine missing the bus, because it once happened to me. January, and you miss the bus by a minute so you have to return the 5 minute walk home to tell your parents the news. (And they are never happy.)