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[quote=Anonymous]I agree with the advice about getting the principal involved in resolving the situation with transportation.
But also- and I hate to say this- if transportation is a big issue for you, you need to reconsider your choice to go to an option school.  We ended up pulling our kids out of an option school, and into our neighborhood schools, in significant part, b/c of problems dealing with transportation.   Among other issues- transportation insisted that our son was eligible for transportation, but our daughter was not- this was not special ed transportation- and I was running into the same absolute roadblock you describe.  I ended up having to get Cintia Johnson (when she was asst superintendent, not interim superintendent) involved to reverse transportation's bizarre edict.
The point is- APS transportation has deeply imbedded problems.  I can't even count the number of new directors they have gone through in the last few years- many people have come into that position with good intentions and tried to fix it.   
Dealing with transportation to a neighborhood school is just so much easier- you have all your neighbors fighting the same battles with you.  It is closer, so usually walking is an option, even if it is not a daily option.  When transportation does bizarre things like order all buses to stop doing their routes b/c the weather is deterioting while denying that they have in fact issued that order- you have neighbors who can help transport kids to school.  Setting up playdates is easier. Retrieving forgotten items from school or picking up sick kids is easier.
I remember one of the many school board work sessions on 'fixing' aps transportation.  Transportation came in and told the school board that the reason why they couldn't make the buses work was special ed transportation - and their solution was they were going to say that all changes to special ed transportation had to be in by april of the year before.   This was actually stated- and they had to be told in public that that would violate the law- that in fact they had to transport students with disabilities who needed accomodations no matter when it happened.   I mention this b/c it is the culture of transportation- its a culture of no, can't do it, and reasons to not make things work.[/quote]

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