Lobby MCPS for GPS bus tracking app?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am not willing to pay as MCPS took away our buses saying they were less than a mile when we are not in less you cut through woods.

Get your child a Verizon Gizmo - $5 a month if you are on Verizon and $15 a month if not. It has a GPS, phone and very limited texting. Works great. We are very happy with ours.

Do you mean cut through woods, like bushwhacking, or cut through woods, like there's an actual paved path for people to walk?

No its not a paved path. Its just a worn dirt path in a heavily wooded area that has been used as a cut through for years.

I don't get parents wanting to track their kids but don't get a cheap phone or gizmo.

[Anonymous]

I also think it would be helpful. I have multiple kids getting off different buses. There have been a couple times just this year when the bus is running very late and it wasn’t clear whether I should continue to wait or go get my other kid....
I don’t want to give my ES kids phones to track their buses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I also think it would be helpful. I have multiple kids getting off different buses. There have been a couple times just this year when the bus is running very late and it wasn’t clear whether I should continue to wait or go get my other kid....
I don’t want to give my ES kids phones to track their buses.

They don't need to have phones to have trackers but if there is a wait issue or not, a phone is helpful.

[Anonymous]

I don’t know if GPS would help or not but we have had some ridiculous bus failures this year, including today in which a new driver skipped my child’s stop in the afternoon and refused to go back claiming the stop was not a stop or something ridiculous. One parent was tracking her kid and said the bus drove way off the route in circles and never went back to our stop.

[Anonymous]

GPS is okay to have but what is more okay then this is the seatbelts on the school buses.
Why in heaven there are not seatbelts on the school buses since every other car on the road is required to have it and used because
apparently they save lives.
It is all beautiful of you who in three.. two.. one.. will start throwing at me your statistics .. no thank you.
I know your statistics and I have my own statistics that show that there are enough of all kinds of accidents minor and major
that would be prevented if a kid would wear a belt. Every child counts. Statistics do not protect kids. Belts do.

Can we please have one of them threads to finally get seatbelt installed. If they are only decorative in the nature then
all the other school systems around the country that are using them must be truly out of their minds!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am not willing to pay as MCPS took away our buses saying they were less than a mile when we are not in less you cut through woods.

Get your child a Verizon Gizmo - $5 a month if you are on Verizon and $15 a month if not. It has a GPS, phone and very limited texting. Works great. We are very happy with ours.

Do you mean cut through woods, like bushwhacking, or cut through woods, like there's an actual paved path for people to walk?

No its not a paved path. Its just a worn dirt path in a heavily wooded area that has been used as a cut through for years.

I don't get parents wanting to track their kids but don't get a cheap phone or gizmo.

Does this path have an official legal existence (dirt or not)? Or is MCPS saying, "it's less than a mile to school as the crow flies?"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know if GPS would help or not but we have had some ridiculous bus failures this year, including today in which a new driver skipped my child’s stop in the afternoon and refused to go back claiming the stop was not a stop or something ridiculous. One parent was tracking her kid and said the bus drove way off the route in circles and never went back to our stop.

Ashburton?

[Anonymous]

I'd much rather lobby for cameras on buses, and increased background checks for drivers.

GPS is nice for parent convenience, but cameras and background checks are important for student safety.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd much rather lobby for cameras on buses, and increased background checks for drivers.

GPS is nice for parent convenience, but cameras and background checks are important for student safety.

We have cameras on buses. That is how they caught the driver who was sexually abusing the special ed students.

+1 to background check and mandatory testing for drivers through out the school year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'd much rather lobby for cameras on buses, and increased background checks for drivers.

GPS is nice for parent convenience, but cameras and background checks are important for student safety.

We have cameras on buses. That is how they caught the driver who was sexually abusing the special ed students.

+1 to background check and mandatory testing for drivers through out the school year.

Okay so here is the final shopping list:

- cameras on busess - check.
- mandatory testing of the divers - to do
- GPS - to do
- seatbelts on busses - to do

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just put tracking on your kid's phone.

Oh God no. Don't be THAT parent. WTF????

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'd much rather lobby for cameras on buses, and increased background checks for drivers.

GPS is nice for parent convenience, but cameras and background checks are important for student safety.

We have cameras on buses. That is how they caught the driver who was sexually abusing the special ed students.

+1 to background check and mandatory testing for drivers through out the school year.

Okay so here is the final shopping list:

- cameras on busess - check.
- mandatory testing of the divers - to do
- GPS - to do
- seatbelts on busses - to do

Buses with cameras to get license plates of cars who don't stop. They can rack up a lot of money with that. GPS is not needed. What a waste.

[Anonymous]

I want all of the buses to have that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am not willing to pay as MCPS took away our buses saying they were less than a mile when we are not in less you cut through woods.

Get your child a Verizon Gizmo - $5 a month if you are on Verizon and $15 a month if not. It has a GPS, phone and very limited texting. Works great. We are very happy with ours.

Do you mean cut through woods, like bushwhacking, or cut through woods, like there's an actual paved path for people to walk?

No its not a paved path. Its just a worn dirt path in a heavily wooded area that has been used as a cut through for years.

I don't get parents wanting to track their kids but don't get a cheap phone or gizmo.

Does this path have an official legal existence (dirt or not)? Or is MCPS saying, "it's less than a mile to school as the crow flies?"

No its unofficial. We aren't getting buses. We have to walk or drive our kids. We had them at one point but they removed them which is absurd given we don't have sidewalks on 1/2 the streets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just put tracking on your kid's phone.

Oh God no. Don't be THAT parent. WTF????

All phones have a way of tracking. Do be that parent. Why wouldn't you?