The Wi-Fi On the Bus

theodp writes "For students who endure hundreds of hours on a school bus each year in a desert exurb of Tucson, the Wi-Fi on the bus improves the ride. Last fall, school officials mounted a $200 mobile Internet router from Autonet Mobile to bus No. 92's sheet-metal frame, enabling students to surf the Web. What began as a hi-tech experiment has had an unexpected result — Wi-Fi has transformed the formerly boisterous bus rides into a rolling study hall, and behavioral problems have virtually disappeared. 'Boys aren't hitting each other, girls are busy, and there's not so much jumping around,' said J. J. Johnson, the Internet Bus driver."

Comments

the wheels on the bus go

[masmullin]

... round and round, round and round round and round. The wheels on the bus go round and round...

What does the wifi on the bus go?

New Policy Needed

[b4upoo]

It is an outrage that students get stuck on school buses for hundreds of hours each year. We need laws that assign students to the closest school available and also laws that requite counties to build schools that serve every area as best as can be done. I am aware that Texas sprawls quite a bit and Arizona surely has similar problems. But we see students in highly urban areas who still are on busses for three hours a day.