1. Transportation Privileges. Trans-portation will be provided for pupils K-12 who live beyond these distance limits from school as measured by the shortest routes over town roads:

Grades K-5 1 mile

Grades 6-8 1.5 miles

Grades 9-12 2 miles

The above limits are also maximum walking distances between home and bus stop.

Transportation will be provided within the above limits when an extreme safety hazard is determined to exist.

Extreme safety hazard is defined as an unsafe thing or condition presenting difficulties or prob-lems, the solution of which is beyond the ordi-nary capability of a child at a specific age.

In cases of appeal, the superintendent of schools shall conduct a thorough investigation and shall provide for the Board of Education's consider-ation satisfactory evidence that no extreme safety hazard exists. Each appeal will be handled individually and independent-ly, and proper con-sideration will be given to the age(s) and capabili-ty(ies) of the student(s) involved and to the condition(s) which was the cause for the petition.

2. Transportation or maintenance will be provid-ed to vocational schools outside of town in accordance with the state law.

3. Transportation will be provided for individuals with special physical needs.

4. After School Activities

The purpose of after school activity transporta-tion is not to deliver the students door to door but to drop them off in the vicinity of their homes (generally within two miles) thereby relieving their parents of several miles of driving to the school.

This transpor-tation is voluntary, and it is the parents' responsibility to pick up their students at the appro-priate bus stop.

5. Transportation will be provided to private schools as mandated by state law.

6. Pupils may be suspended or excluded from transpor-tation privileges for serious an/or repeated infractions of rules, laws, or breaches of discipline. All suspen-sions and exclusions will be in accordance with state statutes and board policy.

a. Discipline problems on buses or vans are handled by the principal of the school the pupil attends.

b. The bus supervisor administers discipline to technical school students and other pupils not assigned to a Montville Public School.

c. Generally, transportation discipline includes the following procedures during the school year:

1st offense -Letter of warning to par-ents

2nd offense -Three (3) day suspen-sion from transportation

3rd offense -Five (5) day suspension from transportation

4th offense -Ten (10) day suspension from transportation

d. Any offense involving weapons and/or the sale and/or distribution of controlled sub-stanc-es will result in exclusion proceedings as provided for under Connecticut General Statutes 10-233d.