SpEd Transportation - Update

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I have confirmed there are 4 children attending my child's elementary school who

are being taken home on the bus and then moms are having to take them to the

therapy center, with another one starting in the next couple of weeks. Just

wasteful to take all of these children all over Round Rock when they could all

be transported to the one place, and done.

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> Our district is now saying they will only transport our SpEd students home or

to a daycare provider after school and NOT to a therapy provider, citing budget

restraints.

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> My child (AU diagnosis) has ABA therapy at Children's Autism Center (within

the district, actually 3+ miles closer to the school than my home) 4 days per

week after school, which means when he gets off the bus at home (3:15pm), we

load him straight into the car and take him to therapy. This means a stressful

transition for him 4 days per week and cuts into therapeutic time, as well as

pushing back dinnertime, and downtime prior to bedtime.

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> Any guidance/suggestions for successfully getting the district to drop him off

at CAC instead of home? I can understand pushback if the provider was out of

district, or a great distance out of the way, but this is NOT the case.

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> I haven't started my campaign yet, but I think I am going to want to push

this.

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