RECENT STORIES

CDOT alerts on intersection work in Centennial ( YourHub.com )
Around the House: Tune your furnace for winter ( John Ward )
Meadow Point teacher wins $1000 Wal-Mart award ( Cherry Creek School District )
Restoring household sanity with KidsClean ( Andrea Wilbur )
Boot Camp members pump pumpkins at ACC ( John Scarffe )

share a story | more postings »

YourHub.com \\ Centennial \\ Stories \\ Education \\ Parent News

The Biz

e-mail to a friend | print this | link to this

Contributed by: Mike Valdes Bleau on 10/23/2007

I am not a bus driver, I was a rider (a 1000 yrs ago). I found this story and can't take credit for it, but it's interesting:

A bus driver for Littleton Public Schools wants parents to have more say over a new radio service featuring songs that he says encourage immoral behavior.
"Nobody can hear it but the driver and the kids," said Dan Kenny about Bus Radio, which was installed on some Littleton buses about six weeks ago. "They played Stronger by Kanye West, and I was thinking this is not an appropriate song for kindergartners or fifth-graders."

Although Bus Radio carried a "clean" version of Stronger, Kenny said it was still easy to determine which profane words were being disguised. He also objected to Timbaland's The Way I Are, which refers to stripping.

The two artists have since been removed, but other songs with objectionable content have since popped up, Kenny said.

Bus Radio officials did not return calls Monday.

On its Web site, Bus Radio promotes itself as a more "age-appropriate" alternative to typical radio stations. The company's playlists are segmented by age group, and include such kid-friendly performers as Hannah Montana and The Cheetah Girls as well as more adult-oriented acts such as Nickelback and Fergie.

Kenny's concerns led Littleton Public Schools officials to form a committee to review the content.

"Bus Radio has agreed to remove artists that we don't feel are appropriate, and they're not playing anything that requires editing," said district spokeswoman Diane Leiker, who noted that the district's drivers are not required to play Bus Radio.

According to Kenny, drivers were required to play Bus Radio until this month, when he went to a local news radio station and voiced his complaints.

School districts that sign up for Bus Radio receive radios that include a global positioning satellite system, public announcement equipment and an emergency notification switch.

But critics say the company is less concerned about safety than it is in delivering a much-sought after market to advertisers.

@not mine

[Report this as objectionable content.]

SUBMIT COMMENT

Rate the above story

Talk Back : submit comments to the story

*Note: you need to log-in to add a comment or rating.

Thank you! Your comment has been updated.

CONTRIBUTOR INFORMATION

Mike Valdes Bleau

centennial , CO

Mike Valdes Bleau has posted 169 stories and 7 comments since joining on 9/11/2007. Mike Valdes Bleau's average story rating is 5.

view profile » view other postings from Mike Valdes Bleau »

SAVE AND SHARE THIS STORY

digg	Google
del.icio.us	Yahoo!
reddit	newsvine

What is this?

STORY RSS FEEDS

All stories

All stories in Centennial

All stories by Mike Valdes Bleau

WANT TO WRITE FOR YOURHUB.COM?

Want to see the stories you write and the photos you shoot featured in the YourHub.com Thursday print section available all over the Front Range and with home subscriptions of the Rocky Mountain News and The Denver Post? All you have to do is register, then post a story or column, start a blog or tell everyone what events are happening in town. We will print the best stories, columns, event listings, photos and blog entries in our print sections.

Loading Ad