Bus Stop Assignment - This can't be right?!

[stitch1769]

I also live in pa, and pretty much all elementary students regardless of how close they live to the school are eligible for bus transportation to and from the school, also our public school does require an adult be present at the bus stop w/ all kindergarden children or they will not be allowed off the bus. That said you said that a bus was seen stopping near/at your house. My questions are ;

1) was the bus you seen a regular school bus? Was it a school van? Or a smaller (short) bus?
2 )does your dd ride a regular school bus?
3) is she a special education student?

I ask all these questions because special education students especially lifeskills students, regardless of age, grade or distance from school have the legal right to be school van transported verses riding on a regular school bus, and very often these children are picked up at their homes or in very close proximity of the home regardles of other bus stops( i know as i have 2 8th graders and 1 rides the school bus the other the van) also some schools do not use the vans, but rather smaller buses hence the term riding the short bus !!
Also our public school transports students to several catholic and private schools so depending on that they may be transporting other school students when you see the other buses in your neighborhood.

Honestly i dont think that your school district is going to change her stop, as you have attempted to call them w/ no response. But i wouldnt give up trying i would continue to call them and leave messages maybe even send a certified letter (document all attempted contact)because they may just be hoping you will give up and forget about it.

As for crossing guards, our local police are in charge of where they are placed based on locations and amount of children at the stop.
I know that when my dd started getting the van in middle school , we live across from a hospital on a very busy street, i was shocked to find out that cars do not have to stop for school vans like they do for buses, so after several failed attempts to get any help w/ this dangerous stituation, from the school, i wanted her stop moved across the street so i contacted the local police and they helped convince the school to move her stop to a safer location.

[couponmommyof3]

You said the bus goes right down your street? I'm assuming it goes right past your house.

When my little sister started Kindergarten, us older siblings were on a different bus. All the buses past our house but the stops were on the ends of the street and we were in the middle of the street. My mother just nicely asked the school bus driver to stop in front of our house and she did.

Worth a try...and good luck!!

Jahnae

[pittsburgh24]

keep calling until they resolve it - actually, I can't believe the bus company didn't resolve it on the first call. Mine did both times. The one time was when they wanted my son to cross a busy street to get the bus. I told them that wasn't going to happen and they agreed (he was in 7th grade). They moved his stop to my side of the road (he would have had to cross streets at a 5 way stop sign with a trolley crossing and lights or a corner with 3 way stop signs, trolley crossing and a main road with no stop signs in either direction).

A week after they moved his stop, I was heading out and drove him to get his bus. I kept looking up the street for the bus (where it was supposed to come from) and he said no, so and so's mother had them change the route so her kids wouldn't have to walk up a huge hill (all roads in Pittsburgh wind up being hills imo lol). His stop had been changed to another corner next to the trolley tracks on the side where the stop signs were. I drove him to school that day and called when I got home and complained. There had been so many accidents at that corner because people always thought they had the right of way and so did the trolley. I remember standing waiting for the trolley and thinking I was going to die because the cars were playing chicken with the trolley (several cars would be on the tracks and the trolley would be blaring their horn - cars would back into each other trying to get off the tracks - right where my son would be standing). I insisted that they pick my son up in front of my house - they radioed the bus driver and he was dropped off at my house that afternoon - as the bus passed where he was supposed to be dropped off that same day, a trolley hit a car where my son would have been had they dropped him off at his old stop.

My son is now a junior and his bus stop is still in front of my house.

That said, I wasn't successful with calls about another issue at that same corner. There was a crossing guard there for several years because there was a Catholic school there. I would stand waiting for my trolley to go to work. The crossing guard would stop traffic to go over to get the kids that needed to cross the street to the school. This a-hole would see the trolley lights flashing and walk the kids across as the trolley was trying to jam on its brakes not to hit the kids. I walked over to him after the kids had crossed and told him how dangerous that was - he informed me that the trolley had to stop for him - all traffic did. I called the police department to report him and my concerns and they said the trolley had to stop for the crossing guard *thud*. No amount of explaining that these were elementary school kids and huge double car trolleys helped. Nor did the fact that he was teaching young children that trolleys would stop for them if they walked in front of them. I called the parents of the kids (my son used to go to that school) and they agreed but said they couldn't get it stopped and they'd tried. They said they just reinforced to their kids not to walk across the tracks when the lights were flashing.

I gave up on that issue because the school closed and it wasn't an issue anymore but, it got to the point that I was afraid to wait for the trolley when the kids went to school because I would have flashes of horrible accidents involving the kids crossing.

[taylordvd]

Actually it was finally changed. Apparently they had changed it, but never informed me, my neighbor, or the school! The bus was driving down my street, stopping at my house, but had no kid on that bus to drop off. She had to be on a different bus than she was originally assigned. They switched her bus and now the bus stops right in front of my house. My neighbor walks down the five house and both kids are dropped off at the same place. All is resolved! :)