Scary school bus incident and safety petition

[Anonymous]

My child was on the bus; it was definitely a bad situation but she was/is fine.

In response to some specific points made-
1) my child did call us and we picked her up, took her home to shower and didn’t make her go back. Am sure she would have been allowed to use a school phone if she didn’t have her own.
2) I got an email that day 5/3 at 9:43 am from assistant principal Bryant with subject “Bus 1113 incident at school this morning”. Am not sure why people are saying the school tried to hide the incident. Email was to “Westland Middle Recipients” which I assume included families of all Westland students.

I signed the petition and there are still big problems to solve here. The bus should absolutely have been taken out of service immediately. But I wanted to clear up that misinformation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid is at Westland but doesn't use that bus.

WHY DIDN'T THE PRINCIPAL SEND OUT A LETTER TO THE FAMILIES?!?!

This is something families should know.
Thank you, OP, for informing us.

Extremly sorry to hear to families of this bus and sincerely hope students and the bus driver are okay. ALL families with kids riding a bus should be livid and concerned hearing this.

Let's guess why communication wasn't send out...
A. Optics
B. Central office has yet to approve of any communication that the Principal can send out to families.
C. Optics
D. All of the above

D for sure!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid is at Westland but doesn't use that bus.

WHY DIDN'T THE PRINCIPAL SEND OUT A LETTER TO THE FAMILIES?!?!

This is something families should know.
Thank you, OP, for informing us.

Extremly sorry to hear to families of this bus and sincerely hope students and the bus driver are okay. ALL families with kids riding a bus should be livid and concerned hearing this.

Let's guess why communication wasn't send out...
A. Optics
B. Central office has yet to approve of any communication that the Principal can send out to families.
C. Optics
D. All of the above

D for sure!

read the post immediately above yours. An email did go out

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My child was on the bus; it was definitely a bad situation but she was/is fine.

In response to some specific points made-
1) my child did call us and we picked her up, took her home to shower and didn’t make her go back. Am sure she would have been allowed to use a school phone if she didn’t have her own.
2) I got an email that day 5/3 at 9:43 am from assistant principal Bryant with subject “Bus 1113 incident at school this morning”. Am not sure why people are saying the school tried to hide the incident. Email was to “Westland Middle Recipients” which I assume included families of all Westland students.

I signed the petition and there are still big problems to solve here. The bus should absolutely have been taken out of service immediately. But I wanted to clear up that misinformation.

The MoCo360 article said the bus was taken out of service. Do you know that to be false?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My child was on the bus; it was definitely a bad situation but she was/is fine.

In response to some specific points made-
1) my child did call us and we picked her up, took her home to shower and didn’t make her go back. Am sure she would have been allowed to use a school phone if she didn’t have her own.
2) I got an email that day 5/3 at 9:43 am from assistant principal Bryant with subject “Bus 1113 incident at school this morning”. Am not sure why people are saying the school tried to hide the incident. Email was to “Westland Middle Recipients” which I assume included families of all Westland students.

I signed the petition and there are still big problems to solve here. The bus should absolutely have been taken out of service immediately. But I wanted to clear up that misinformation.

Thank you! OP sucks for hyping up the incident into something it was not. Glad tour child is ok and that you spoke up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My child was on the bus; it was definitely a bad situation but she was/is fine.

In response to some specific points made-
1) my child did call us and we picked her up, took her home to shower and didn’t make her go back. Am sure she would have been allowed to use a school phone if she didn’t have her own.
2) I got an email that day 5/3 at 9:43 am from assistant principal Bryant with subject “Bus 1113 incident at school this morning”. Am not sure why people are saying the school tried to hide the incident. Email was to “Westland Middle Recipients” which I assume included families of all Westland students.

I signed the petition and there are still big problems to solve here. The bus should absolutely have been taken out of service immediately. But I wanted to clear up that misinformation.

Thank you! OP sucks for hyping up the incident into something it was not. Glad tour child is ok and that you spoke up.

You mean all parents suck because it was lots of parents who were upset. But, please, go after one person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My child was on the bus; it was definitely a bad situation but she was/is fine.

In response to some specific points made-
1) my child did call us and we picked her up, took her home to shower and didn’t make her go back. Am sure she would have been allowed to use a school phone if she didn’t have her own.
2) I got an email that day 5/3 at 9:43 am from assistant principal Bryant with subject “Bus 1113 incident at school this morning”. Am not sure why people are saying the school tried to hide the incident. Email was to “Westland Middle Recipients” which I assume included families of all Westland students.

I signed the petition and there are still big problems to solve here. The bus should absolutely have been taken out of service immediately. But I wanted to clear up that misinformation.

The MoCo360 article said the bus was taken out of service. Do you know that to be false?

Sorry to be unclear- I don’t know if the bus was taken out of service but it definitely should have been! My kid wasn’t on the afternoon bus to report whether it was the same one later that day, that is, if the floors and seats where still slimy and sticky as stated by some posters here.

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My child was on the bus; it was definitely a bad situation but she was/is fine.

In response to some specific points made-
1) my child did call us and we picked her up, took her home to shower and didn’t make her go back. Am sure she would have been allowed to use a school phone if she didn’t have her own.
2) I got an email that day 5/3 at 9:43 am from assistant principal Bryant with subject “Bus 1113 incident at school this morning”. Am not sure why people are saying the school tried to hide the incident. Email was to “Westland Middle Recipients” which I assume included families of all Westland students.

I signed the petition and there are still big problems to solve here. The bus should absolutely have been taken out of service immediately. But I wanted to clear up that misinformation.

The MoCo360 article said the bus was taken out of service. Do you know that to be false?

Sorry to be unclear- I don’t know if the bus was taken out of service but it definitely should have been! My kid wasn’t on the afternoon bus to report whether it was the same one later that day, that is, if the floors and seats where still slimy and sticky as stated by some posters here.

Same poster here- I just asked DD. Apparently yesterday morning, Monday, enroute to school, bus alarm went off three times and the bus had
to stop briefly each time for an issue DD thought was “overheating”. Maybe was a different bus , but if so, that’s also bad. No problems today (Tuesday). Will need to get more info tomorrow about whether they are now on a different bus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My child was on the bus; it was definitely a bad situation but she was/is fine.

In response to some specific points made-
1) my child did call us and we picked her up, took her home to shower and didn’t make her go back. Am sure she would have been allowed to use a school phone if she didn’t have her own.
2) I got an email that day 5/3 at 9:43 am from assistant principal Bryant with subject “Bus 1113 incident at school this morning”. Am not sure why people are saying the school tried to hide the incident. Email was to “Westland Middle Recipients” which I assume included families of all Westland students.

I signed the petition and there are still big problems to solve here. The bus should absolutely have been taken out of service immediately. But I wanted to clear up that misinformation.

The MoCo360 article said the bus was taken out of service. Do you know that to be false?

Sorry to be unclear- I don’t know if the bus was taken out of service but it definitely should have been! My kid wasn’t on the afternoon bus to report whether it was the same one later that day, that is, if the floors and seats where still slimy and sticky as stated by some posters here.

Same poster here- I just asked DD. Apparently yesterday morning, Monday, enroute to school, bus alarm went off three times and the bus had
to stop briefly each time for an issue DD thought was “overheating”. Maybe was a different bus , but if so, that’s also bad. No problems today (Tuesday). Will need to get more info tomorrow about whether they are now on a different bus.

Are you saying your DD was not on the bus OP was posting about?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My child was on the bus; it was definitely a bad situation but she was/is fine.

In response to some specific points made-
1) my child did call us and we picked her up, took her home to shower and didn’t make her go back. Am sure she would have been allowed to use a school phone if she didn’t have her own.
2) I got an email that day 5/3 at 9:43 am from assistant principal Bryant with subject “Bus 1113 incident at school this morning”. Am not sure why people are saying the school tried to hide the incident. Email was to “Westland Middle Recipients” which I assume included families of all Westland students.

I signed the petition and there are still big problems to solve here. The bus should absolutely have been taken out of service immediately. But I wanted to clear up that misinformation.

No on the email to all families. I have a kid at Westland, check all emails hourly (and spam once a day) and did not receive any communications about this issue.

I am incensed that the assistant Principal did not see fit to explain what had happened to the community at large.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My child was on the bus; it was definitely a bad situation but she was/is fine.

In response to some specific points made-
1) my child did call us and we picked her up, took her home to shower and didn’t make her go back. Am sure she would have been allowed to use a school phone if she didn’t have her own.
2) I got an email that day 5/3 at 9:43 am from assistant principal Bryant with subject “Bus 1113 incident at school this morning”. Am not sure why people are saying the school tried to hide the incident. Email was to “Westland Middle Recipients” which I assume included families of all Westland students.

I signed the petition and there are still big problems to solve here. The bus should absolutely have been taken out of service immediately. But I wanted to clear up that misinformation.

Thank you! OP sucks for hyping up the incident into something it was not. Glad tour child is ok and that you spoke up.

Stop trying to minimize the incident. The PP signed the petition and is not pleased.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My child was on the bus; it was definitely a bad situation but she was/is fine.

In response to some specific points made-
1) my child did call us and we picked her up, took her home to shower and didn’t make her go back. Am sure she would have been allowed to use a school phone if she didn’t have her own.
2) I got an email that day 5/3 at 9:43 am from assistant principal Bryant with subject “Bus 1113 incident at school this morning”. Am not sure why people are saying the school tried to hide the incident. Email was to “Westland Middle Recipients” which I assume included families of all Westland students.

I signed the petition and there are still big problems to solve here. The bus should absolutely have been taken out of service immediately. But I wanted to clear up that misinformation.

The MoCo360 article said the bus was taken out of service. Do you know that to be false?

Sorry to be unclear- I don’t know if the bus was taken out of service but it definitely should have been! My kid wasn’t on the afternoon bus to report whether it was the same one later that day, that is, if the floors and seats where still slimy and sticky as stated by some posters here.

Same poster here- I just asked DD. Apparently yesterday morning, Monday, enroute to school, bus alarm went off three times and the bus had
to stop briefly each time for an issue DD thought was “overheating”. Maybe was a different bus , but if so, that’s also bad. No problems today (Tuesday). Will need to get more info tomorrow about whether they are now on a different bus.

Are you saying your DD was not on the bus OP was posting about?

She was on route 1113 Friday morning. Did not ride home on the bus Friday, as we picked her up after the antifreeze leak. Has ridden bus this week (same route 1113) but she’s not sure if the actual vehicle - which stopped/alarmed 3 times on the way to school is the same bus or a different one. Hopefully a different bus but if so, not good that this bus also seems to have overheating issues.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My child was on the bus; it was definitely a bad situation but she was/is fine.

In response to some specific points made-
1) my child did call us and we picked her up, took her home to shower and didn’t make her go back. Am sure she would have been allowed to use a school phone if she didn’t have her own.
2) I got an email that day 5/3 at 9:43 am from assistant principal Bryant with subject “Bus 1113 incident at school this morning”. Am not sure why people are saying the school tried to hide the incident. Email was to “Westland Middle Recipients” which I assume included families of all Westland students.

I signed the petition and there are still big problems to solve here. The bus should absolutely have been taken out of service immediately. But I wanted to clear up that misinformation.

The MoCo360 article said the bus was taken out of service. Do you know that to be false?

Sorry to be unclear- I don’t know if the bus was taken out of service but it definitely should have been! My kid wasn’t on the afternoon bus to report whether it was the same one later that day, that is, if the floors and seats where still slimy and sticky as stated by some posters here.

Same poster here- I just asked DD. Apparently yesterday morning, Monday, enroute to school, bus alarm went off three times and the bus had
to stop briefly each time for an issue DD thought was “overheating”. Maybe was a different bus , but if so, that’s also bad. No problems today (Tuesday). Will need to get more info tomorrow about whether they are now on a different bus.

Are you saying your DD was not on the bus OP was posting about?

I think she means her child was on the antifreeze morning bus on Friday. On Monday the morning bus had to stop 3 times in response to an alarm. Usually it's always the same bus that does a student's morning route every day. The child's parent is not sure whether MCPS took the Friday bus out of circulation (they claim they did, but maybe they didn't) and the Monday bus was a different one, or whether the Friday and Monday bus were the same vehicle.

[Anonymous]

So where is Ms. Serino in all this? Why are the assistant Principals doing what is usually her job?