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Show Back to School on a Bus -l: iissf , J l,iiii,iiMii iT.-.r f-- Throughout America this week youngsters will retrace their steps to the school room to begin another year's study. Some walk, others ride, but none of the riders have a more unique system than the students stu-dents of North Carolina where a state-operated bus system is bandied ban-died largely by the students theni-selves. theni-selves. About 50 per cent of the bus drivers are of school age, and woe to the motorist who considers them lightly. Drivers appoint monitors, fellow bus riders who stop traffic while youngsters cross the street. Upper picture shows a North Carolina Caro-lina monitor, while below are some of the busses ready to take students home after a day in school. Each afternoon shortly after 3 o'clock hundreds hun-dreds of these conveyances carry the children to waiting parents. |