Lemont is experiencing temperatures ranging from a couple of degrees, to well below zero. One of the challenges that high school students and staff face is the travel from home to the school.

Many of these challenges have been answered before by the school’s extensive transportation system, in which there is a fleet of well over nine school busses each servicing 35 students. Some of the questions that students have been questioning in recent times is the overall effectiveness of bussing in the winter weather.

Students are increasingly becoming more and more worried about their well being due to the accumulation of ice and snow on roadways.

Lemont is notorious for being in session when most other school districts have closed their doors.  Sophomore Nicholas Karmia shared his perspective on the safety of himself and students with regards to public transportation. Karmia said, “It is understandable why he isn’t closing school, however safety isn’t  his first priority and I remain largely dissatisfied with the lack of attention to safety by the school board.”

Karmia had also added, “I feel that the staff is largely unfit to be driving are buses in the cold conditions that students are enduring and that the school board is at large not considering the safety of students when they are traveling. Other than the bad conditions outside, the bussing system is fine though.”

Karmia is one of the many lemont students who feel ill-represented by the school board in regards to safety and transportation. Next week’s temperatures will be the true test of whether Lemont’s current systems of transportation will work safely and effectively.