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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In my title one school 35 percent of my kids walk.  It rises to about 75 percent as we reach 5th grade because the bus becomes "uncool".  So I have lots of kids walking 4 and 5 miles instead of the normal 1 or 2.  These kids also don't have proper winter attire.  I had one student about 3 years ago who got frost bite on the bottom of his nostril.  His snot froze and 35 minutes later when he got to school it starting "burning" and "pricking" him. Im not sure of a cut off temp but I dont think its an absurd concept at least at my school.  No one is giving these kids rides either.  No one in their household will go "man its super cold today we better take Larla".  [/quote]

Too uncool to to take the bus? If its cold enough kids will ride the bus. I grew up dirt poor in a snow belt in PA. We had buses. We rode the bus.

How cold does it have to get before a bus won't start? I haven't seen temps in MoCo or FCPS get low enough that they couldn't start.[/quote]

Buses seem to have trouble starting when it gets into low teens and single digits.  It's apparently not an issue of engine block heaters or parking the buses outside but is due more to the age of the bus fleet.  Fairfax has lots of buses that are 15 years old and older.[/quote]

It isn't due to the age of the fleet, but rather due to the type of fuel and antifreeze.  We could make our fleet handle the weather better but at significant cost (and largely unnecessary since it just isn't that cold that often).
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