LAKEVIEW DISTRICT Changes await pupils for new school year

The school buses will be marked for the elementary pupils.
By VALERIE BANNER
VINDICATOR CORRESPONDENT
CORTLAND -- School starts Aug. 25 for Lakeview pupils, teachers and staff -- and school officials say they're ready.
Board of education members approved changes to the pupil handbook and hired one more teacher Monday, as final accommodations are made to school buildings and buses to prepare for the new school year.
Kindergarten, first- and second-grade pupils will attend Bazetta Elementary; third- and fourth-grade pupils will attend Cortland Elementary.
Last year, kindergarten through fourth-grade pupils who live in Bazetta attended Bazetta Elementary, while those who live in Cortland attended Cortland Elementary.
Superintendent Matthew Chojnacki said bus schedules have also been adjusted so elementary pupils will have enough time to get to the proper building, and because middle and high school pupils will ride together.
Signs on buses
To help ease confusion, Chojnacki said buses will have signs on their bumpers: blue signs that read "K-2" for Bazetta Elementary pupils and red signs that read "3 & amp; 4" for Cortland Elementary pupils.
"It will be different this year," Chojnacki said, "but all and all, I think the bus drivers are ready."
Most of the changes made to the handbook are about the dress code. Pupils can wear shorts before Nov. 30 and after March 1.
Pupils' abdomens, waists and shoulders must be covered at all times, and violators will be given a plain gray T-shirt to wear.
The new dress code also states that pupils cannot have "extreme hair colors, no dyed unnatural colors," said board President Larry Swiger.
Pupils will no longer receive a grace period to make up work at the end of a semester if they have missed more than 30 days.