John F. Kennedy Middle School, Hudson, Massachusetts, USA
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- A map of Hudson Public Schools’ current school bus routes
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- Students waiting at a designated school bus stop
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- Students being picked up for school
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- An empty school bus — to show that not many students and their families take advantage of the bus service
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- A sign for bus and car routes at John F. Kennedy (JFK) Middle School
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- Daily traffic jam at JFK driveway with cars waiting to pick students up after school
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- The families of these students avoid the traffic jam and also save money by using the school bus
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- Rising price of gas in Hudson
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- Various car parts in an auto repair shop
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- Learning how to build and fix energy-efficient buses and cars would help the environment and also provide job opportunities
In my town buses are a popular way of transportation and it is cheap and sustainable. I would like to know how much gas is released from a bus to the number of cars with the same number of people on the bus.
WOW. I thought that the prices in Scarsdale for gas was the highest in the country. After further looking into this issue, I found that you guys have a relatively similar gas price as us. Regular gas prices are at an insanely high price, $3.59!!! Back in the 60′s and 50′s gas prices were 50 cents! Wow. Prices have really changed! Thank you for the eye opening realization that Scarsdale isn’t the only city with high gas prices! We should really do something about this!
Dear students at JFK Middle School, I really enjoyed looking at your project. In Scarsdale most people take the bus to school, but for some the bus doesn’t come to the area where they live so they have to drive. Sometimes we get stuck in traffic near the school and end up late. Your idea of expanding the bus route is a great idea because it would make it easier for everyone to get to school. It would also save gas and be better for the environment which is really good. Thank you for the great idea.
Peyton M, Scarsdale Middles School, Scarsdale, NY, USA
This issue of public transportation is a huge issue we face in Scarsdale because like your community, many citizens drive around in gas-guzzling vehicles rather than take advantage of the public transportation system.
Dear students at John F. Kennedy Middle School,
I enjoyed your project because it reminds me of the many transportation issues we have in Scarsdale.They decision to spend more money on gas to drive by car or taking the school bus.
-Tisnue J, Scarsdale Middle School ,NY ,USA
Hi, I am a student from Scarsdale Middle School and I think this is a really great project. Many of the projects that we did at our school were similar to this in the ideas of sustainable transportation. I learned that Hudson is a lot like Scarsdale in the ideas of some students take the bus and other choose not to. Also gas prices are rising everywhere which is another similarity. Once again this was a great project.
We have the same issues here in Scarsdale with some kids taking the bus which is good, but we also have others who take cars which is worse in the long term idea.
Dear JFK Middle School,
It was interesting to see your thoughts on how taking the bus to school can help yourself and the environment. I really enjoyed looking at the pictures. My question is if you know how many kids take the bus to your school each day and how many get driven each day? Great Job!
Dear Students at SMP1, I am a student and I think that it’s really cool that many families help them selves while also trying to help the environment. What have you guys done in school to promote sustainability?
I learned that there are many families in your community that choose not to take advantage of the public transportation that the school provides. I saw in your pictures how many cars were waiting to pick students up after school. I can see that by doing this a lot of greenhouse gases are being released but this amount can be reduced. I think that it should be encouraged in all communities to use public transportation as it is a good way to reduce carbon monoxide. I see this similar situation in my community and I believe people can do more. How do you hope to advertise to your community that public transportation should be used?
Rohan H.
Scarsdale Middle School
Dear John F. Kennedy students , I have enjoyed learning about sustainability issues in your community and comparing them to the issues in my community. Where I live you only get a bus if you live a certain distance away from the school. Is this the same in your community? In your town since many people do not take advantage of the bussing system do you think that if you showed this research to more people they would take the busing system? Since gas prices are rising this will make mass transportation even more important. Do you think in result of this more people will try mass transportation?
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Maddie S.
USA
John F. Kennedy Middle School, Hudson-
I agree that some of the bus routes should be changed. This also affects me because I live too close to my school that I do not get buses which makes me take a car to and from school. I see that in both cases that if the came to other places that it would make a big difference in our community. In your community, do some people get bus transportation and others don’t?
Dear Students at JFK middle school, as I fellow student at Scarsdale, I learned much about oil consumption and its impacts. However, I wonder if you think that turning even a majority of the world’s billions of vehicles into sustainable vehicles is actually possible. If so, how expensive would it be if everyone had to switch fuel consuming vehicles into electric powered vehicles so that we could truly be sustainable. After all, fuel consumption merely delays the inevitable, the eventual chaos the world will plunge into if fuel runs out.
Dear students at John F Kennedy Middle School,
We learned today that our schools are very alike. We too face the problem of many people not taking the bus and driving to and from school. This is polluting our planet extremely. We love your project and thought it was very informative!
Thank you for sharing!
Dear students of JFK middle school,
I really enjoyed seeing your project. It was very intricate and original. This project made me realize how important our little steps are to be more sustainable. That taking the bus can be so much more economical and environmentally friendly.
JFK Pearl Team,
I am very proud of your work. This is very informative!
Miss Korhn (Coral Team)
Oh my goodness, what a wonderful job you all have done. Thank you for sharing this with our community. Mrs. Keck
Hello Pearl Team,
Well, what technology teacher would not be proud of a photography project by her students? Who took the picture of the gas prices and the bus? I loved the interesting perspective used! Great job by all!
Great job to JFK students! What an honor for your creativity and thoughtfulness to be honored in this way. I am curious about whether students walk to school? Did you include this information in your analysis? Do you think there are safe routes to walk to JFK? Are the sidewalks and crosswalks intact? I’m thinking that if students who lived a reasonable distance from school were to walk to school that they would engage in the type of physical activity that could improve learning AND decrease congestion and use of non-renewable resources. What do you think?
Dear JFK,
That was a very good way to show how gas is and how it is used. Most people if they have the opportunity, they should walk or take the bus as a car pool. This saves you money and helps save the economy at the same time. But on the other hand, if you look at it another way, it helps with job opportunities because of the mechanics, ETC. So there are some pros and cons of that. Well done project!!!!!!!!
Thank you for looking at our project! The question about more people taking mass transportation caught my attention. I hope that this project will encourage more people to take the bus because now more people might understand it better. People might now think about taking the bus to school instead of every one driving to school. We have shared our project with our school and community and hope to have an impact.
Hello everyone! I would like to thank all of you for commenting. I never thought this would turn into something so huge. I think that walking to school would be a good thing to do, but the parking lot at JFK is so full and congested that it might not always be safe. The other problem is that, no, not everyone in the town has access to a bus so that is a huge problem that is forcing the parents to drive. I also think that the problem issome kids are very far from a bus stop which is inconvienient. I do think that if we showed this to more students it would raise public awareness by 100%. Thank you all for commenting once again.
Heather Alzapiedi
Hi again everyone! Some one asked about how we hope we would advertised public transportation in our community. Well, we showed all of the pictures we took on our school website, and we wrote about what it was. We also put them on a website for others to look at as well. I hope I answered your question!
Jordan Smith
Thank you everyone for looking at our project and commenting. Getting electric buses would be a great way to help the environment. Buses need a lot of fuel to run and its very expensive to fuel all of them. Although it will cost a lot of money to make electric buses, but in the end it will be saving more money, not pollute the environment, and it will create new jobs for mechanics, etc. We beleive that this would be the best option for promoting sustainablility. Again, thank you all for taking your time to look at our project and comment.
Hi again everyone! Some one asked if some people do take school buses in our community and others don’t. In our community we do have some people that do not take the buses. If you don’t live that far away from school, you do not get to ride the bus. You have to walk or get a ride, but you can always carpool to save gas! If you live farther away, you do get to get to ride the bus. Thank you.
Jordan Smith
I agree that people should use public transport. Great project.
I didn’t know that all gas prices were being raised. It is ridiculous how much they are going up.
Your project was good, and I like your idea of expanding bus route to get more kids to ride buses because it would save money and save time so there is little jam in mornings at schools and at the end of the day.
This is a great project! Maybe it will help influence people to use public transportation more often.
Since you have to be dropped off and picked up at school, we think your ideas are good. Since we study at an Islamic boarding school, we live in dormitories and don’t get dropped off or picked up. We simply walk to go to school
Using a school bus seems like a good way for students’ families to save money on gas and also help reduce traffic congestion in the school parking lot and driveway. We suppose that if students have to take buses to school, then your country will not experience traffic jam.
I agree with your opinion. Using school buses will reduce traffic congestion, can help with parents’ finances, and also educate students to become independent.
This is a very good subject. I think that public transport should be used a lot more everywhere. Well done.
The gas prices are ridiculous and they keep going up. They should bring prices down. I think it hurts the economy when gas prices are high.
This is da bomb.
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I go to this school. This reminds me of the other schools that did this project.
Nice job Pearl team. I hope you guys learned a lot from this project. So I hope to keep this up with all the learning
Good job guys! you did good and put a lot of hard work into this!
This is a really imformative project on the economy in Hudson about transportation. People should really consider it a problem that needs to be resolved.
Me and Zach think your pictures are good and Go Hawks!
Good work, JFK. You’ve correctly pointed out some of the benefits of expanded bus routes. Have you considered if there may be any disadvantages to expanding bus routes and why the district has not done so?
Dear John F. Kennedy Middle School Students, I must say that energy-efficient school bus is a very nice idea!
Yuan Edo R., SMPN 1 Lamongan, Indonesia
In Callisburg we don’t have businesses. We only have one store and it is the City-One-Stop. We don’t have traffic here and we have a little town. Almost every student rides the bus to school. It would be nice if we had energy-efficent buses so we can save on energy.
Really cool project!
I was so sick of the drought.
Hi:) Me and my BFF Halle Olson think your pictures are cool.:) At Callisburg, Texas, we don’t have traffic and we only have one store, but it’s really fun here. I love it and I wish y’all could come and see what it is like down here in Callisburg.!!:)
I love how organized your school is!!! It’s great!
Well, I’m Hayden and I live in Callisburg, Texas. Our town is so small we have three businesses in one building: a gas station, a restaurant, and a grocery store. Gas prices are getting out of control, so we need energy-efficient buses to help our school (Calliburg Middle School, High School, and Elementry School) save ALOT of money and we can buy stuff that we need at our school.
P.S. This is a cool project.
In Callisburg there are businesses, but one store. I really want energy-efficient buses, though. I hate to be contributing to the hole in the Ozone Layer.
Carlee, most things we do go to the hole in the ozone layer….Good job with the pictures guys
The energy efficient buses would be a good thing here at Callisburg.
Great job Pearl Team! What a fun project. I agree that more kids should ride the bus or maybe carpool. In my neighborhood there are six students going to the same school in the morning but they get there by five different forms of transportation. This includes 1 bus,1 student driver,and 3 different parents driving. Over one school year this is a substantial amount of gas wasted.
Keep up the good work JFK Pear Team!!!!
I think the “School Bus” program in USA is really great. It can reduce the greenhouse effect and reduce the fuel usage. I hope there will be school buses in Indonesia. Especially in Lamongan, East Java. This may prevents the earth from global warming because usually in Indonesia we use our personal vehicles.