Black Gold Regional Schools provides rural bus service to rural schools within the appropriate attendance area. Pick ups will be at the gate wherever possible, however, in subdivisions, there will be designated pick up points established rather than stopping every few hundred yards.
It should be noted that many of the schools start between 8:20 a.m. and 8:45 a.m., which requires rural busses to pick up students earlier at the beginning of their routes.
Bus routes are designed by looking at the student enrolments, the distances and times and as well as safety. It is not possible to have every student on last in the morning and off first after school, especially if the route is linear instead of circular. It is not considered practical to drive past a number of students homes in order to drop off students at the far end first. Although it may only take parents ten to twenty minutes to take students to schools, busses must pick up many students and may have numerous stops and/or turnarounds, which adds to the times on the routes.
Regardless of stop times, busses will pick up students whose residence is on a Highway on the right-hand side.
Students are to be ready and waiting for the bus at their pick up point three to five minutes prior to the scheduled pick up time. Drivers cannot wait for students, as this would add extra time to the routes, especially if a number of students are not ready for their pick up. In addition, students who run after a bus because they are late could slip and fall under the moving bus.