APS bus stop

[Anonymous]

APS assigned us to a bus stop that is no where near our house. I called the day the bus stops were released and they said it was clearly wrong and if I filled out a form it would be fixed within 24 hours. Now APS transportation is saying that they just created a new policy that they will not correct any bus stops until after the first two weeks of school.

There is no way for my daughter to get home from school. Our babysitter doesn't drive and the bus stop is too far. We're at work. Do we just have her miss the first two weeks of school? APS transportation says the policy is final and nothing can be done.

[Anonymous]

Option school or neighborhood sxhool? Define ‘clearly to far’. Are you aware of another bus stop that would work better?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Option school or neighborhood sxhool? Define ‘clearly to far’. Are you aware of another bus stop that would work better?

Yes, if it's an option school, the bus routes use "hubs" and no longer make multiple stops within neighborhoods.
Otherwise, I'd just take her to the same stop your neighbor kids go to. They don't always check paperwork to verify the assigned stop. If they do, I would make note on the paper and tell the bus driver you have contacted APS about the error and the official change is pending. Good luck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Option school or neighborhood sxhool? Define ‘clearly to far’. Are you aware of another bus stop that would work better?

Yes, if it's an option school, the bus routes use "hubs" and no longer make multiple stops within neighborhoods.
Otherwise, I'd just take her to the same stop your neighbor kids go to. They don't always check paperwork to verify the assigned stop. If they do, I would make note on the paper and tell the bus driver you have contacted APS about the error and the official change is pending. Good luck.

Close hub stop that we want is very close to the house (0.2-0.4mi). Assigned hub stop is well over the 1 mile walk zone. Kid is a kindergartener. I can try just putting her on the wrong bus in the morning, but I don't want her driving around Arlington on the wrong bus on her way home on the first day. She'll be traumatized if they try to drop her and no one is there.

[Anonymous]

I feel you. My kindergartner's bus stop is half a mile uphill from our house. It's for a neighborhood school. It's walkable, but not easily with the child care arrangements we made, so I'm taking a late bunch every day to retrieve him with his two younger siblings in tow.

Can babysitter Uber to the school to pick her up? I'd also call again on Monday with specifics and politely ask how they will fix it because missing two weeks of school for a transportation problem is not an excused absence and you're worried she'll be considered truant

[Anonymous]

They won’t leave her at the stop. She’ll continue on the bus route and transportation will contact you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel you. My kindergartner's bus stop is half a mile uphill from our house. It's for a neighborhood school. It's walkable, but not easily with the child care arrangements we made, so I'm taking a late bunch every day to retrieve him with his two younger siblings in tow.

Can babysitter Uber to the school to pick her up? I'd also call again on Monday with specifics and politely ask how they will fix it because missing two weeks of school for a transportation problem is not an excused absence and you're worried she'll be considered truant

How can they create a new policy that they won't fix their own mistakes for the first two weeks of school the last business day before school starts? It's not like I put the info in late. Everything was submitted last spring.

[Anonymous]

Is this in Fairlington?

[Anonymous]

Can your babysitter Uber with her for the first two weeks from assigned bus stop? Obviously not ideal and it sucks you are dealing with this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Option school or neighborhood sxhool? Define ‘clearly to far’. Are you aware of another bus stop that would work better?

Yes, if it's an option school, the bus routes use "hubs" and no longer make multiple stops within neighborhoods.
Otherwise, I'd just take her to the same stop your neighbor kids go to. They don't always check paperwork to verify the assigned stop. If they do, I would make note on the paper and tell the bus driver you have contacted APS about the error and the official change is pending. Good luck.

Close hub stop that we want is very close to the house (0.2-0.4mi). Assigned hub stop is well over the 1 mile walk zone. Kid is a kindergartener. I can try just putting her on the wrong bus in the morning, but I don't want her driving around Arlington on the wrong bus on her way home on the first day. She'll be traumatized if they try to drop her and no one is there.

Is it on the same route? If so- don't worry about it- just go to the closer stop. If its a different bus, then I would still just put her on it and send a note to the teacher noting the errror and giving the correct bus. A different bus is somewhat more complicated- a different stop is just irrelevant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can your babysitter Uber with her for the first two weeks from assigned bus stop? Obviously not ideal and it sucks you are dealing with this.

No, the babysitter has other kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Option school or neighborhood sxhool? Define ‘clearly to far’. Are you aware of another bus stop that would work better?

Yes, if it's an option school, the bus routes use "hubs" and no longer make multiple stops within neighborhoods.
Otherwise, I'd just take her to the same stop your neighbor kids go to. They don't always check paperwork to verify the assigned stop. If they do, I would make note on the paper and tell the bus driver you have contacted APS about the error and the official change is pending. Good luck.

Close hub stop that we want is very close to the house (0.2-0.4mi). Assigned hub stop is well over the 1 mile walk zone. Kid is a kindergartener. I can try just putting her on the wrong bus in the morning, but I don't want her driving around Arlington on the wrong bus on her way home on the first day. She'll be traumatized if they try to drop her and no one is there.

Is it on the same route? If so- don't worry about it- just go to the closer stop. If its a different bus, then I would still just put her on it and send a note to the teacher noting the errror and giving the correct bus. A different bus is somewhat more complicated- a different stop is just irrelevant.

It's a different route.

[Anonymous]

Call the school. Have them speak with transportation. They usually get them to move faster. Otherwise I agree with the poster above. Put her on closer bus in the morning. Send a note with her to school and call/ email her teachers and who ever is in charge of dismissal in the front office and tell them the rough bus number and that you want her dismissed on that bus.

If your school sent stickers for dismissal cross out the wrong bus number and write the new one

[Anonymous]

For the next two weeks, you go into work late so that you can bring your daughter to school. Your spouse goes home early each day so they can pick your daughter up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For the next two weeks, you go into work late so that you can bring your daughter to school. Your spouse goes home early each day so they can pick your daughter up.

No. Maybe for two days, but not for two weeks. This isn't possible.