Otago principal responds to rural school bus services cuts

So far this year, 176 routes have been or are being reviewed by the Ministry of Education; 21 have been cut and 11 have been replaced with different routes or combined with others. Otago schools have been hit hard by the charges, for some came in during the third term. To get Ministry funded school transport assistance, there must be 8 or more students using the bus and they have to go to a state or state integrated school within a certain distance. But the Ministry said the primary responsbility to for transporting kids to school rests with caregivers. Colin McHutchon, principal of Heriot school spoke to Lisa Owen.