Talk:Berkeley Unified School District/Archive 1

Archive 1

Not list

This should become an article, not a list. — Emiellaiendiay 02:43, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

• A portion of the article will be a list, but the rest can be made an article. WhisperToMe (talk) 19:12, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

Assignment policy

http://www.berkeley.net/student-assignment-plan/ http://www.berkeley.net/map-assignment-zones/ WhisperToMe (talk) 19:12, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

1966 bussing, AC Transit

I have not found a reference for this yet, but I can personally attest to it, having been one of the students that was bussed to Willard via AC transit. Yes I know, personal accounts are frowned upon here, but it is nonetheless a fact. Given some time, some reference will be found. It was probably mentioned in the Berkeley Gazette at the time (during the summer of 1966). We might also find some district record of it. Tmangray (talk) 06:50, 6 July 2019 (UTC)

Just because you took an AC Transit bus to school doesn't mean there was any special arrangement between BUSD and AC. Secondary students simply took regular AC Transit bus routes and paid the usual fare, as they do today [1]. Though a handful of additional runs of regular lines were added at the beginning and end of the school day, this is no different from what AC and transit providers everywhere do as a matter of course to meet peak demands presented by schools and large employers. It's conceivable there was some minor reimbursement to AC for special services (e.g. cost for a driver to stand by waiting for school to let out) but I'm only saying that in an abundance of caution.

I can personally attest to all this because I was a Berkeley Schools official myself for a time. And what WP does with all this personal attestation, yours and mine, is ... nothing. If and when you have a source on this point, we can add something addressing it. EEng 13:18, 6 July 2019 (UTC)

No this was a special routing of an AC transit run, not a regular route, once in the morning and once in the afternoon. We had notification of this from the school district at the time. It was for the specific purpose of facilitating the integration of the junior high. Students from our elementary school had previously been assigned to Garfield which was much closer. We were notified of the change at some point during 6th grade. I can ask my mother and some of my former classmates. Someone may still have materials saved from that time. Perhaps AC Transit might have a record of it. Tmangray (talk) 06:08, 9 July 2019 (UTC)