Students taking the after-school activity bus will now be required to have a color-coordinated ticket, which allows the school to be more accountable for students.

Students will be able to receive a ticket from the sponsor who they are staying after school with. “We want the students to have a ticket so we know that they have been with a supervised adult,” school business manager Julia Broyles said.

The after-school operations team came up with the new ticketing policy during a committee meeting.

The policy was put in place September 25 for the activity buses that will be running every week from Monday through Thursday. All students will now need a color-coded ticket to be able to get on the 4:35pm or 5pm bus. There will be a different colored ticket for the specific day and time a student takes the bus.

The 4:35pm bus is assigning a dark blue ticket on Mondays, light pink on Tuesdays, yellow on Wednesdays, and white on Thursdays. The 5pm bus will be giving orange tickets Mondays, green Tuesdays, light blue Wednesdays, and dark pink Thursdays.

Teachers, sponsors, coaches, Rec Zone, ACES, College Tracks and other staff get passes each day from the main office. The amount of passes will depend on how many of their students they think will ride either the 4:35pm bus or the 5pm bus. Extra passes can be returned back to the main office.

Tickets will be collected by security or the bus driver before boarding the bus. “If you do not have a ticket, you will go to the end of the line and then you would still get on the bus,” security officer Justin Ellis said. They will also be referred to their administrator to discuss the reasons for not having a ticket.

The policy is planned to stay in effect all year for after-school activity bus riders. “Because of the afternoon hallway loitering that we have, we need the students to understand that the hallways is not the way to be,” Broyles said.