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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My child was on the bus; it was definitely a bad situation but she was/is fine.

In response to some specific points made- 
1) my child did call us and we picked her up, took her home to shower and didn’t make her go back.  Am sure she would have been allowed to use a school phone if she didn’t have her own.
2) I got an email that day 5/3 at 9:43 am from assistant principal Bryant with subject  “Bus 1113 incident at school this morning”. Am not sure why people are saying the school tried to hide the incident. Email was to “Westland Middle Recipients” which I assume included families of all Westland students.

I signed the petition and there are still big problems  to solve here.  The bus should absolutely have been taken out of service immediately.  But I wanted to clear up that misinformation.[/quote]

No on the email to all families. I have a kid at Westland, check all emails hourly (and spam once a day) and did not receive any communications about this issue.

I am incensed that the assistant Principal did not see fit to explain what had happened to the community at large.

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[b]I truly don’t think this is a community-wide issue.[/b] As long as the families of the kids involved were notified promptly, there’s no need for a blanket message. My kid has been on buses involved in fender-benders and mechanical malfunctions over the years, and I didn’t think the whole school needed to be notified.

This was a pretty dramatic malfunction, to be sure, but it’s one that’s highly unlikely to be repeated, and didn’t affect anyone else at the school. The people who needed to know, knew. I’d much rather the school keep communications to the essentials, so information is less likely to get lost in the deluge. [/quote]

This is a huge mistake that parents like you and MCPS make repeatedly. It is a community-wide issue because a large group of kids like this are a part of the community. And they're going to share their experiences with the community and that narration of a child is going to be subject to misperceptions and misstatements which WILL get out into the community and lead to confusion or misinformation spreading to parents. So you should address it to the community so that way you get out in front of the rumor mill and have an official, clear, accurate message circulating and to point to.
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