Posted on 04/23/2005 10:12:32 AM PDT by bvw
Why is a 4-year-old going to an all-day public school program . . . and by bus, no less???
These parents must have had a few very frightening hours. Thank God the child was ok.
So what was the driver and the aide doing on that bus? Goodness!
How scary for the parents. So glad it worked out okay!
Parents fault completely. Four years-old is way too
young for a child to be riding alone to school
on a bus. In fact, four years-old is too young
for school period. And I'm talking about
so-called "pre-school." That's just another
term for "day-care" at the taxpayers expense.
Yes, I agree in most cases -- the kid appears to have been in an infant child seat, no less. Still, the response of the school district, the police and the bus company to the situation was good.
How is it the parent's fault?! It's the bus druver and bus aids fault. God, people here are starting to sound more and more like liberals everyday- blaming something and someone else!
Let's give credit where credit is due! Have you ever left your child with a babysitter!
Long into the night if he'd had working parents. Or worse yet, he would have wandered off once his nap was over. I don't understand why a 4-year-old is on a school bus to begin with.
Our children all attended a pre-school and pre-kindergarten program through a local school. They rode a small bus, about 25 passengers, and they had an aide. Most of the pre-schoolers were 3 to 4 years old and the pre-kindergartners were 4 to 5 years old.
Seems to me that the right people were punished.
Every pre-school I have ever seen is much more than just "day-care." What's your beef?
But by 4 p.m., the bus still hadn’t arrived,
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Why didn't the bus still drive their normal route?
Just because the boy was asleep wouldn't make you alter your route, would it?
It's commendable how everyone involved worked together to resolve the problem.
All day four and five year kindergarten is a great boon to teachers, their unions, and the taxing ability of a school district.
Oh, and it's free babysitting for parents.
The benefits for the child? Hey, that's really not the important thing here!
It may not be an all day program. Kindergarten programs will often have 1/2 days, morning and afternoon sessions. He may have been in the afternoon session.
4 would be preschool, I think, not kindergarten.
susie
Is it me? Or have there been a large number of stories coming out about children being left on buses?
I think NJ needs to overhaul it's bus system immediately.
I think I posted at our locale last year about children getting STDs on the buses.
Last year, first day of school my oldest insisted, she wanted to take the bus with her friends. I caved and let her.
I showed up to meet the bus after school.
I waited...
I waited...
I waited...
I waited...
I started calling the school, bus company, Board of Ed that contracts the bus...
2 and a half hours later, the driver pulls up to me at a corner while I was frantically combing the streets for a sign of the bus (I wasn't at the bus stop do NOTE) and asked me, as a stranger, if I knew where any of these kids lived.
To this day, this bus driver doesn't know how fortunate she is that I had my son in my arms. That saved her life.
Turns out the driver didn't have her bus route and was just taking directions from the clowns on the bus who were enjoying giving her wrong directions.
This was 2 and a half hours after the bus was due and my daughter was the first off the bus.
She never rode the bus again.
No one called to apologize to me.
No one at all reached out to me for this.
Since it does not say I wonder if the child is in head start.
My children aren't in head start. My child that had the bus incident was 8 at the time this happened.
And you are right, the article didn't say if the 4y.o boy was in head start.
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