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[quote=Anonymous]Our school only accepts bus changes with a written note.  IMHO if the teacher was going to accommodate with the bus change based on an email she should have printed out the email and taped it up on the wall by the chart of which child goes where on which day of the week.  I think the kindergarten parents at our school are also required to keep a "sign" saftey pinned on their child's backpack.  If the child is a bus rider, they have a yellow shaped cut out pinned on their backpack with the bus number and stop information.  If the child is in on-site after school care they have a different blue cut out pinned on the top of their backpack etc.

For my first grader I send in a (dated) note each time I'm going to pick her up (instead of her riding the bus) and she puts it in the teachers basket when she arrives.  The teacher then tapes it up by the door where they have the list of what child goes where in the afternoon.  As she exits, they take down the note and hand it to her so she has another reminder and so she can show it to any adult that asks why she is going to a different exit than she normally does. If the bus is more than five minutes late arriving at school, the remaining children are released from their classrooms to the gym to wait.  This way the teachers don't get stuck baby sitting a few kids and can get on to their day. (Walkers and car riders are released when school lets out so they don't have the same issue.)  Once the kids are in the gym, it is up to the 5th grade safety patrols (with a few adults supervising) to help make sure the children get on the correct bus.  I believe lists of what children go on what bus are also posted in the gym.

I think riding a different bus may require advance permission from the office so that would be a note earlier and then a separate "reminder" note to the teacher on the day of the change.

Because MCPS bus drivers have to track kindergarteners on their bus I would expect the school would also need to notify the bus driver of the bus your child was riding home to make sure that they had record of where she was supposed to get off and who was supposed to be meeting her at the bus stop.[/quote]

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