JAY – The School Committee held a second discussion on a proposed student transportation policy Thursday and will have one more reading before members consider approving it.

Letters have been sent to parents of the 60 children who may be affected by changes in the policy. The letters inform parents of the potential change and that they will be given 10 days to appeal the change if the policy is accepted by the committee. The letters were sent on Sept. 28, said Superintendent Robert Wall.

Last month, School Committee members amended the proposed transportation policy to state that students in grades two to six would be entitled to transportation if they live more than a third of a mile from school, and students in grades seven to 12 are entitled to a school bus ride if they live more than a half mile from school.

Parents of only two of the 60 children have called to discuss the proposed change, said Sue Weston, maintenance director.

In other business, the committee approved a trip to Danvers and Salem, Mass., for combined classes of American literature and U.S. history. Forty junior students, two teachers and two parents will take a bus to Salem to tour either a witch museum or a witch home. The Cyr bus, at a cost of $1,388, was rented with money raised by the students through raffles and donations. The English class has been studying “The Crucible” and the history class is studying Puritanism and the witch trials.

The question of why there is no homecoming this year was raised by Justin Shink.

Nobody has requested one, said high school Principal John Robinson. It was decided one will be organized before the Jay-Livermore Falls game at the end of the month.