Students at a Nashville school are calling for regulation of "transpotainment" party vehicles that they say are disrupting their learning.
On Tuesday afternoon (September 28), a group of students at Hume Fogg Academic High School held a press conference to say they "deserve to learn in peace," News Channel 5 reports. The school sits just a few blocks away from Lower Broadway so tourists and partiers pass by the campus on a fairly regular basis. One of the reasons for the press conference was to call for regulating the party bus industry, which some students say interrupt learning when they drive by the school.
"The music they play, the things they are drinking and the language these intoxicated people use is inappropriate to have around a school," said student Nora Tate, who claims that students have also been yelled at, flashed, and had things thrown at them from people on the party vehicles.
Julia Wolf-Dubin, leader of the student group "Hume Fogg for Peaceful Learning," said the city needs to change the law to protect students trying to get an education.
"There are laws about where brick and mortar bars and honky tonks can be, there are not laws about where these transpotainment vehicles can be. There should be," said Wolf-Dubin. "We want peaceful learning. Not to take away anyone's livelihoods, not to ban fun. Just for us to be able to learn in peace."
Students aren't the only people interested in regulating the transpotainment industry. After a man fell from a party bus and was run over in July, Metro Council has introduced bill to provide more oversight of the vehicles, including proposing limits on open containers and alcohol.