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[quote=Anonymous]The dirty little secret is that it happens more frequently than we all would like to think. My son wound up on the wrong bus on the first day of K!! It took them the better part of an hour to track him down since they basically had to radio all the buses and figure out which one had an errant passenger (who didn't necessarily know he was on the wrong bus). We were hysterical, but he was fine. In subsequent months and years I saw neighborhood kids miss their stop (reading or goofing around) and other mishaps. We've also had a lot of issues when an on-site afterschool activity was cancelled without notice to parents and kids are sent home unexpectedly.

There's not really anything you can do to ensure that there is never a mistake like this, and in the case of a kid who gets on the wrong bus I really don't think you can blame the school or the teacher. If it's a public school, they cannot personally escort every kid to every bus. The one thing we tried to develop was a protocol for unexpected arrivals at home - here's where you go (x neighbor, y neighbor), here's what you say, as a backup wait in the backyard by the swingset, etc. My oldest is in third grade and it still makes me anxious. [/quote]

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