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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My child is starting kindergarten in the fall. Does anyone know when the school bus schedules come out or when I will find out if my child is designated a walker or school bus eligible? I  haven't gotten much information from the school since completing the paperwork.  Is there any other information that I may have missed?[/quote]

You can call the school to find out if your child is a walker of bus rider.  The bus schedules are usually mailed about a week or less before school starts.  At our ES, class assignments usually come out the night before school starts or the night before open house the Friday before school starts.  At our school, they are posted on the entry doors by teacher listing First names and last initial.   [/quote]

I am sure this is revisted every year but that seems so last minute to me. [/quote]

They go over the school bus routes in August when they have a better handle on the students who will be coming.  Classes are also subject to change if they are close to having to add a class if enrollment increases before school starts.  After school starts, they generally do not add a class and just add to the classes (almost always one or two more kids in the class after the beginning of the year- even if it is over the "maximum").  Kindergarten is especially hard, our Principal once said that 50% of the incoming kindergarteners  that show up in Sept are not registered until August and that make it more difficult.  Many times they know they are there,because of surveys and preschools, but they can't add them to the roster until they are officially registered.  We are in a more stable school with a lower than average mobility rate, so it is worse in schools with higher mobility rates.    It was harder for families when kindergarten was half day and you didn't know until the week before if your chid was going to be in morning or afternoon k. [/quote]

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