[wagonman76]

Hybrid school bus makes a lot of sense.

When I was in school, if you lived on the other side of main street (this town was population 420) they made you ride the bus to the other side supposedly for liability reasons. Didn't matter that it was no busier than any other street in town. And didn't matter that they sent the kids walking across main street and back on their own every day for band class anyway.

They had funny rules. Like you couldn't mix your mashed potatoes and gravy because one kid (must have been an important kid who was related to half the school staff) thought it looked disgusting.