Guest guest Posted March 8, 2002 Report Share Posted March 8, 2002 Hi, Just wondering how many of you put your 4 year old on a bus to be tranported to school and back. will be 4 in August, and I just do not know if I should put him on the bus for school next year. I have been bringing him and picking him up this year, but I am due with my next baby in July and I feel it may be less stressful if I put him on the bus. But than you " hear " of the things that can happen while on the bus, especially since will be the only child on the bus, my mind has been wondering and worrying about unthinkable things. Just wanted to get a feel from parents who have already been thru this process to get your thoughts. TIA Debbie 's Mom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 8, 2002 Report Share Posted March 8, 2002 << I wonder if it is smart to put a child under the age of 7 on a bus and leave them to find their own way to their class and back on the right bus after school. >> I would hope this is not how it works at your child's school. My 5-year-old son rides a little over an hour to his school and the kids are met at the door of the BUS by their teachers and brought to the classroom. At the end of the day, the kids line up at the door and are escorted to their buses by the teachers and bus drivers. If it's handled any differently (for kids under 7), I would be driving my son too! Carol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 9, 2002 Report Share Posted March 9, 2002 My three year old twins went to their special ed school by bus for three years. There was always an aide on the bus, as well as the driver. Both women were very nice and accomodating, and it was difficult for me at first, to let my babies go, but they loved it, so I learned to love it also! Connie (twins are now 14 yrs old!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 9, 2002 Report Share Posted March 9, 2002 Carol, Don't apologize. At some schools that's how they do it. A friend's 5-year-old daughter (normal hearing, regular public school) has to get off the bus herself and find her own classroom. She has been discovered several times wandering the school hallways looking for the right room. Sadly, it's important to consider all the possible options, good and bad, and ask lots of questions. -Daphne > Carol > I have to appologize -- my son is not in school yet he will be going next > year. I just don't know how it works yet and these are my > concerns. Sorry > if I worded it wrong. > > Thanks for the info on how it works at your school. > > monica Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 9, 2002 Report Share Posted March 9, 2002 Our kid's buses all go to the high school, and the elementary students get off their buses and get on different buses that go to their correct elem. school. They call this the " mix master " . I visited the school before I put my kids on the bus (5 hearing, 2 deaf) when we first came to this district, and I can understand why they call it that. I was horrified at the hundreds of kids getting off one bus, and onto another. I was sick with worry the day I had to actually put them on the bus. Guess what?? They all get where they are supposed to, and have never missed one, or gotten on a wrong one. The buses have animal figures stenciled on the side next to the number, and all the elem. students have a laminated animal shape they are to match to buses so they know they have the correct bus. I hate to sound insensitive, and say, " Don't worry about it " , so I won't. But I will say, even when I had to send my little kids off to our neighborhood school 2 blocks away, I still cried with worry and sadness. RE: 4 yr old and busing > Carol, > Don't apologize. At some schools that's how they do it. A friend's > 5-year-old daughter (normal hearing, regular public school) has to get off > the bus herself and find her own classroom. She has been discovered several > times wandering the school hallways looking for the right room. > > Sadly, it's important to consider all the possible options, good and bad, > and ask lots of questions. > > -Daphne > > > > Carol > > I have to appologize -- my son is not in school yet he will be going next > > year. I just don't know how it works yet and these are my > > concerns. Sorry > > if I worded it wrong. > > > > Thanks for the info on how it works at your school. > > > > monica > > > > All messages posted to this list are private and confidential. Each post is the intellectual property of the author and therefore subject to copyright restrictions. > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 9, 2002 Report Share Posted March 9, 2002 > Don't apologize. At some schools that's how they do it. I agree. Shortly after we moved here, imagine my horror when on the local news there was a report on a non-verbal special needs child who had gotten on the bus at school, and wasn't on the bus when the driver arrived at the child's destination. Turns out he had gotten off at the wrong stop, but the driver didn't question it and there was no other adult on the bus to question it either. Thankfully JD doesn't take the bus, but I could certainly see it happening. So yes, ask lots of questions because policies vary from state to state, city to city or district to district (San has 5 school districts). The only time JD has taken the school bus, other than for field trips, was when he was in Kindergarten and he was the last child on, and the first child off. Kay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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