By Isabelle De Armoun
Homer High Students may have noticing the big white busses in front of the school last week and this Thursday. They are anything but big yellow broken down school busses, they are charter busses. They are complete with TVs that hang down from the ceiling and footrests under the reclining seats with a light and fan above. Accommodated with a toilet.
”They’re a lot more comfortable to be on for hours at a time. The TV makes the time pass a lot faster,” said Fallen Caruthers and Juli Hargrove.
Dr . Gee said that he would like to make it so every extra curricular activities could use these busses when traveling out of the district.
The severe expense of fixing the school busses is causing this change. last year Dr.Gee mentioned the cost of fixing a transmission was around$ 5,000.The company that owns the charter busses is a tour buss company that offers tours of Alaska in the summer to tourists. The company has no use for the busses in the winter, except for managing Fairbanks school districts busses. The company provides an all inclusive package of keeping up maintenance, a buss driver and insurance that pays for all the damages. Dr Gee hopes to see this happen very soon and by the looks of it so do the students and coaches that traveled to Huston game last weekend.