Editor, Gazette-Journal:

After reading the recent article regarding the proposed start and dismissal times for Gloucester County Schools next year, I was dumbfounded why the eighth grade (Page) students’ start and dismissal times were so different from the GHS students’ times.

I just assumed the high school buses would absorb the eighth graders in their current routes throughout the county. Come to find out, because some parents of eighth grade students do not want their children riding the bus with high school students, we (Gloucester County) will be creating an additional set of routes throughout the entire county merely to pick up eighth grade students! This information hasn’t been disclosed in the paper, and I’d like to know if anyone else feels this plan is wasteful.

Up until that bit of news, it seemed like plans to work through the catastrophe caused by the tornado hitting Page were logical and sound. But sending out buses to duplicate those high ...