COLLIER COUNTY, Fla. - The bus routes in question are known as courtesy routes. They're for students who live within a two mile distance of the schools and were implemented about five years ago.

Since then, parents in some of these areas have had to fight to keep them.
"There is no safe way for the kids to get to school," Tammy Schulz told WINK News today.

If the courtesy bus routes are cut, that could force more kids to walk busy streets like Airport Road to get to class.

"We didn't feel it was safe, and we went to the meetings. It would be four
years ago when they wanted to cut them, and we won, and they didn't take the buses away from us," Schulz explained.

John Cipola already walks his kindergartner to school. He says he doesn't mind it because he can walk with his son, but he sees why others need the courtesy bus.

"If you're living a little further away and you've got to try to walk across a couple busy streets, its not good," Cipola said.

One school board member says that's exactly why they put the routes in, in the first place.

"Kids were walking along Airport-Pulling and its a very very dangerous street for cars, let alone children walking by," school board member Richard Calabrese told WINK News.

School administrators today said they did not want to talk about the possible bus cuts just yet.

We were told they are still in the process of figuring out exactly where the cuts will be.

The school board expects to hear more about it in June.