Transportation

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Understanding the trust placed in the school by the parents, safety is the prime consideration when the school is transporting students to and from school events. GSB cannot accept responsibility for the transportation of students that is not planned, coordinated, conducted or supervised by the school.

All athletes must travel in designated vehicles to and from practices and games. The following exceptions are considered on a case-by-case basis and require written parental consent.

  1. PRACTICE DRIVER POLICY (WHEN PRACTICE MAY BE OFF CAMPUS)
    • Drive themselves, by themselves
    • Drive themselves and no more than one other student-athlete who is not a sibling to the driver (this exception requires written parental approval from both sets of parents of the student-athletes)
    • Ride with an adult that is not the student-athlete’s parent with written parent approval
  2. GAME DRIVER POLICY
    • If school transportation is provided athletes must ride with the team unless there are exceptional circumstances that would require otherwise
    • With parent and coach permission athletes may ride home with their guardian or another adult. A parent or approved adult must sign out the responsible student from the game site
    • When long trips are necessary such as for playoffs in TAPPS, commercial transportation may be used to provide the optimum in safety and professionalism
  3. WHEN COMMERCIAL TRANSPORTATION IS NOT AVAILABLE OR USED, THE FOLLOWING GUIDELINES APPLY
    • All drivers transporting GSB student-athletes must be licensed, at least 25 years old and have on file with the school copies of current driver’s license and current automobile insurance
    • Drivers are required to comply with all applicable state and local laws, ordinances and rules of the road, including the use of seatbelts by each person in the vehicle
    • Drivers must submit themselves to a criminal background check and Ministry Safe Training conducted by the school

    • Coaches are not allowed to transport athletes in their personal vehicle without written exception from the Head of School

      The school buses are available for use in transporting teams to and from away events. The buses are to be used primarily by Rhetoric School teams. They may be used by Logic teams if such use does not conflict with Rhetoric use. All drivers of the school buses must meet the above guidelines as well as be approved by the athletic director. As the school has multiple teams, the order of priority for use of the buses is as follows when a scheduling conflict occurs:

    • During overlap of seasons, the team farther along in its season has priority

    • Varsity teams have priority over JV teams, JV teams have priority over LS teams, LS “A” teams have priority over LS “B” teams

      In addition to the order of priority listed above the following guidelines will also dictate how the buses are allocated:

    • Travel to games takes precedence over travel to practices
    • Team sports take precedence over individual sports
    • Out-of-town travel takes precedence over town travel.
  4. BUS DRIVER GUIDELINES
    Student safety and minimizing driver fatigue are important concerns that we have sought to address. For this reason, we have established the following bus driving guidelines when transporting students.
    • For local trips within one hour of Geneva, coaches may either drive the small or large busses without restriction)
    • Trips outside of one hour will utilize the help of an independent driver (non-coach)
    • Trips in excess of 3 hours or which require a late return time (after midnight) will be charted by a professional driver.