Some St. Johns County parents are frustrated about the lack of bus routes for this school year.
Some kids can ride the bus to school, while others cannot; even though they live in the same neighborhood.
Maritza Bojorque’s 14-year-old son is a 9th grader at Tocoi High School. They live in the Sevilla neighborhood in World Golf Village, so they’re just under two miles away from school. Her son is not eligible to ride the bus this year.“I don’t think it’s fair for our kids to do this right now,” Bojorque said.
At the end of May, some parents got a letter in the mail from the school district’s transportation department saying their school bus service was being terminated. The letter cited a state statute indicating if students live less than two miles away from school, and there is an appropriate area for kids to walk, a bus is not required to pick them up.“And this International [Golf] Parkway, that is very dangerous and [has] a lot of traffic in the mornings,” Bojorque said.
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