Guest guest Posted August 25, 2004 Report Share Posted August 25, 2004 How weird is it that the school asked me to drive my daughter to school tomorrow because they don't know if they have a bus driver for her? Should I tell them I want to be paid? LOL!! Donna mother to ny and Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 25, 2004 Report Share Posted August 25, 2004 I had to drive my son to school for the first 4 days this year because they didn't have a car seat, or a harnes or anything to keep him in the seat. It's not even a school bus it is a private contractor. Apparently the school told them that he was a full time wheelchair user, instead of an occasional wheelchair user. Last year I was supposed to call and set up transportation but they didn't give me the info until when school started and I didn't have a vehicle to drive him in so he missed two weeks of school while waiting for it to get set up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 25, 2004 Report Share Posted August 25, 2004 I had to drive my son to school for the first 4 days this year because they didn't have a car seat, or a harnes or anything to keep him in the seat. It's not even a school bus it is a private contractor. Apparently the school told them that he was a full time wheelchair user, instead of an occasional wheelchair user. Last year I was supposed to call and set up transportation but they didn't give me the info until when school started and I didn't have a vehicle to drive him in so he missed two weeks of school while waiting for it to get set up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 25, 2004 Report Share Posted August 25, 2004 Donna, You ARE definitely within your right to ask for a reimbursement per mile, round trip, at whatever their standard rate is! They probably have one for those parents who choose to drive their kids and it's probably something like 40 cents/mile. Of course, it would be bad if they figured you were OK with this on a regular, sporadic basis. We were stupid in that we did not negotiate driving reimbursement with our district in California when we were taking our son to school about 60 miles away. We probably could have, but at the time, worried it would adversely impact our son's placement out-of- district. Plus we felt sorry for our one-school-district which we loved dearly. But we should have asked! Our cars sure suffered for it on all those twisty, turny, mountain back roads that we took to avoid the traffic. Instead we claimed charitable driving as an itemized deduction on our income tax at a much worse rate -- something like 14 cents/mile. Lydia , 7 1/2, implant at 4 Colin 10 1/2, hearing > How weird is it that the school asked me to drive my daughter to school tomorrow because they don't know if they have a bus driver for her? Should I tell them I want to be paid? LOL!! > > Donna > mother to ny > and > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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