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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OMG. This is just awful. [b][u]Thank goodness it wasn't hot out or that child would be dead.[/u][/b]

"The employees admitted disabling a buzzer alert in the back of the bus, Mahaley said. That alert normally forces a driver or attendant to walk to the back of the bus to turn it off while checking for children.

The attendant sat up front with the driver instead of in the back seat where she belonged, which also is against the rules."

Is this criminal behavior? It should be.[/quote]

That was my first thought, too!

At my child's school, if DC hasn't arrived by 15 - 30 minutes after school officially begins, I get a call from the office asking if there is a problem (and it was really embarrassing too, even though we were at the Dr's office at the time, for an appointment).

If DCPS had such a policy in place, it would help to alleviate the alarming incidents that remain completely systemic to SN education in DCPS.  Walker Jones (the child's school) has a very high SN population because of its autism program.  But as ever, the situation is apparently that the children aren't students, they're just numbers to punch on the way to a paycheck.

"Grist for the mill" - after all, they don't pay union dues.

Kaya, step away from the charter schools unless and until you can clean up your own messes.[/quote]

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