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[quote="Guest"]With the old bus service we now have back my kids were late to school a majority of the time despite us having to be out at the stop 42 minutes before the start of school.  Now, one day in so far, the same is true.  This is really unfair to the kids.  It stresses them out, stigmatizes them and sometimes even gets them in trouble with the school.  Some of the kids and teachers give them grief for always being late, the school sometimes marks them as tardy and sent us a warning letter about it despite 100% of the time being when the bus delivered them.  And my middle schooler doesn’t gets to go to his locker and literally runs to his class from the bus, which is a bad start to the day when you’re lugging a ton of books in your backpack and an instrument.

If they need to pick them up even earlier to get there on time, so be it, but they should not accept a policy that by design will disadvantage some students on a regular basis.  Or they should adjust the start of school to allow for the bus kids to arrive on time.  It’s up to the school to decide on an equitable solution, but just accepting that certain kids will always be late is not one.

I keep reading about how their hands were tied with the lowest bidder but I don’t buy that.  I have done a lot of RFP’s including for public agencies and it’s all about how you structure your bid request.  They can set the start of route schedule and build in some time.  They could have included penalties for lateness in the contract to incentivize the winning bidder to factor in the necessary time into their bid.  Perhaps they could have required offering work at the same rate to veteran drivers on the route as part of the bid package.  Our driver last year was actually a Cranbury resident and it was the one year our service was consistently good.  Now she’s out of work and we’re left with drivers that won’t even make eye contact or require a friendly hello when parents or kids greet them, and who works for a company whose previous drivers sometimes never showed up at all leaving the parents rushing to form ad hoc car pools.[/quote]

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