<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=0NzdpK_1FRkNJrs00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=0NzdpK_1FRkNJrs00" width="1200" height="900" ></figure>Over the year of 2026, the weather has been increasing to levels that are uneasy for students at Liberty High School. Students who ride the bus are overheating and starting to get nervous for their ride home. “I love when we get off school and get to go home but I hate riding the bus home,” Kohra Salmond (10) said. “When we’re on our way from the high school to the middle school to my house, I’m on the bus for almost 40 minutes, and I am the last stop so the heat level for a lot of us is horrible.” Compared to Salmond’s bus, some buses only have middle school or only high school students. “I’m glad that my bus only picks up the high school students and that the middle schoolers have their own bus,” Dinah Ganesh (10) said. “If I could do anything to help the other buses that pick up both, I would give the high school and the middle school kids their own buses so they wouldn’t have to feel the heat as much as if they were sitting two to a seat everyday.” Students look forward to going home each day after school, but do they look forward to leaving the AC of the school and being on the buses for 30-40 minutes each day after school? As the heat starts to increase, we look at the stats of the heat advisory, finding out this is the second hottest September in years according to the National Weather Service St. Louis Missouri with an average temperature of 82.9 degrees. Students like Layah Davis (9) ride buses that have students up to two to three to a seat everyday. “I think that we could have each stop, we only have two, but I think that they should each have their own bus because it’s over crowded compared to having us all together,” Davis said. “I feel like if there were less people on the bus, the heat wouldn’t be as bad because we wouldn’t all be as close to each other.”As you look more onto the buses and find that some students have to stay back at the school because of the overcrowding, even though everyone wants to get home, is it worth being in the heat and the overcrowding? Some students walk home instead of riding the bus or get picked up by parents, but as the heat increases, it’s getting more dangerous to walk home. Students who are up to 20 minutes walking from the school to home are at the risk of passing out, or even not having any water and being dehydrated. When the bell rings signaling the end of the day at 2:15 p.m., students pile out into the heat. Principals and administration are by the doors ready to hand out water to students so there wouldn’t be a case of someone overheating.Emmett Mankus (7) is one of the middle schoolers on bus 178 and talks about the struggle of finding a seat after each school day and having to fight the heat of the bus. Most middle schoolers in lower grades find it difficult to get by. From backpacks sitting in the aisles to fights with older students that end up with them landing themselves in trouble or to sit three to a seat or on the floor, younger students find themselves struggling without anyone offering them help.In the past, there have been multiple attempts to help the buses overflow problem. The most common one is splitting bus rides into two, driving the high schoolers home first and letting the middle schoolers sit in a school gym or a school cafeteria for hours while they wait for their bus to come back to pick them up. “I think we went back to normal bus routes because of how long it was taking to pick everyone up,” Bella Erlitz (10) said. “I remember we would be there for hours.” Another method has been spacing pick-up spots out, leading to students having to walk long distances to a bus they are not even sure they’ll get seats on. Most attempts end in failure, leading the kids back where we started, three to a seat and on the floor.</div></body>

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Over the year of 2026, the weather has been increasing to levels that are uneasy for students at Liberty High School. Students who ride the bus are overheating and starting to get nervous for their ride home. “I love when we get off school and get to go home but...

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