Kaipara College student barred from school bus, told to catch ACC-funded taxi Thu, 11 Mar 2021, 6:18PM
Ethan Hepper (right), pictured with fellow student Kael McFarlane, has been told to get an ACC-funded taxi because he doesn t qualify for the school bus on their rural road. Photo / Sylvie Whinray
Kaipara College student barred from school bus, told to catch ACC-funded taxi Thu, 11 Mar 2021, 6:18PM
A boy who has been barred from a school bus by a 117-year-old distance rule has been told to apply for an ACC-funded taxi instead.
The decision will cost ACC at least $2300 a year if it agrees to fund a taxi, even though the boy s parents say there are empty seats on the school bus that goes past their gate on Inland Rd, 3.8km from his school at Kaipara College in Helensville.
Bureaucratic lunacy - Kaipara College student barred from school bus, told to catch ACC-funded taxi instead
11 Mar, 2021 02:10 AM
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Ethan Hepper (right), pictured with fellow student Kael McFarlane, has been told to get an ACC-funded taxi because he doesn t qualify for the school bus on their rural road. Photo / Sylvie Whinray
A boy who has been barred from a school bus by a 117-year-old distance rule has been told to apply for an ACC-funded taxi instead.
The decision will cost ACC at least $2300 a year if it agrees to fund a taxi, even though the boy s parents say there are empty seats on the school bus that goes past their gate on Inland Rd, 3.8km from his school at Kaipara College in Helensville.
Written By: lprent - Date published: 9:12 am, February 24th, 2021 - 15 comments
You can’t read legislation for very long without finding instances of weird edge cases. My favourite used to be the old Summary Offences Act which had prohibitions against wearing carpet slippers in public.
Simon Collins at NewstalkZB writes about an example. Why we have kids trying to walk or bike on gravel roads with no sidewalks to get to school. When modern cars travel these narrow lanes at up to 100km/hour. Hundreds of children living on rural roads near towns are being barred from school buses under a law that hasn’t changed since 1904.
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Children barred from school bus by 117-year-old law
19 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM
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Kaipara College students Ethan Hepper (left) and Kael McFarlane are barred from the school bus on Helensville s winding Inland Road because they live within 4.8km of school. Photo / Sylvie Whinray
Hundreds of children living on rural roads near towns are being barred from school buses under a law that hasn t changed since 1904.
Kaipara College students Kael McFarlane and Ethan Hepper, both 13, watch a school bus go past their doors on Inland Rd 3.8km outside Helensville, but the bus is only allowed to pick up high-school students if they live more than 4.8km from school.