{"id":10759,"date":"2024-07-24T05:21:31","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T17:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=10759"},"modified":"2024-07-24T05:21:31","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T17:21:31","slug":"school-bus-cancellation-leaves-hundreds-of-families-in-limbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=10759","title":{"rendered":"School bus cancellation leaves hundreds of families in limbo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 500 families in rural Hawke&#8217;s Bay are facing an uncertain future because the bus service taking their kids to school is being cancelled by the Ministry of Education.<\/p>\n<p>Some parents are in tears, trying to figure out whether to homeschool their children or try to sell their properties so they can move closer to a school where their kids can continue their education.<\/p>\n<p>The bus service travels 60 to 70 kilometres every day to drop students off and bring them back. But it is going to be canned at the end of this school year after the ministry carried out a review that found\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/nz-news\/350349070\/school-bus-cuts-will-lead-truancy-says-rural-leader\">a number of students using the services were not eligible<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A number of communities will be affected, including Te Pohue, which sits along the Napier-Taup\u014d road.<\/p>\n<p>Norm Brown, chair of the Te Pohue Community and District, said his settlement was already stressed and vulnerable following Cyclone Gabrielle, and an Education Review Office\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/evidence.ero.govt.nz\/media\/2hxp1qi5\/missing-out-why-arent-our-children-going-to-school.pdf\">report<\/a>\u00a0told Checkpoint the biggest driver of rural truancy was the lack of bus services.<\/p>\n<p>rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 500 families in rural Hawke&#8217;s Bay are facing an uncertain future because the bus service taking their kids to school is being cancelled by the Ministry of Education. Some parents are in tears, trying to figure out whether to homeschool their children or try to sell their properties so they can move closer to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10761,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10759\/revisions\/10761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}