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This story is from last year, but it still annoys me to think about it, so I'll post it here. My son goes to preschool in the mornings 4 days a week from 9-12, but he rides the bus, to and from so it's more like 8:30 to 12:30.
He rides one bus with one driver to school, then rides a different bus with a different driver on the way home. He also has Autism and somewhat limited communication skills. So I put him on the morning bus with no incident, and all is well.
Then in the afternoon, the bus was supposed to arrive at 12:30. So I decided to go out and wait for the bus at 12:15 since the drop off times aren't always accurate in the first couple days, as they get issues with the route and stuff sorted out.
So I waited outside from 12:15 to 12:45, and no bus ever came down our street, let alone stopped at our house. So I decide to call the school, to find out what's going on.
The receptionist answers and asks how she can help me. I tell her my son's bus was supposed to drop him off at 12:30, it's now 12:45 and there's been no bus. She immediately launches into a lecture about how I must have missed the bus and that my son is on the bus and was taken back to the school, then she starts lecturing me on the importance of being out there to get him off the bus on time, and about the drop off policy. I tell her that I've been waiting outside since 15 minutes before the bus was even scheduled to drop him off, and I've been outside the entire time, so no I did not miss the bus.
This finally shuts her up for a second then she asks me, "Your son's name is Joe right?" I tell her no, that's not my son, and give her his name. Then she tells me that some other parent forgot to get their kid off the bus and they had to take the kid back to the school, and that's why my son's bus was running late. It did finally show up at 1:00, 30 minutes late.
I was still really annoyed with the receptionist assuming I'd just forgotten to get my kid off the bus, and not even checking to see which kid I was talking about before launching into her lecture.
He rides one bus with one driver to school, then rides a different bus with a different driver on the way home. He also has Autism and somewhat limited communication skills. So I put him on the morning bus with no incident, and all is well.
Then in the afternoon, the bus was supposed to arrive at 12:30. So I decided to go out and wait for the bus at 12:15 since the drop off times aren't always accurate in the first couple days, as they get issues with the route and stuff sorted out.
So I waited outside from 12:15 to 12:45, and no bus ever came down our street, let alone stopped at our house. So I decide to call the school, to find out what's going on.
The receptionist answers and asks how she can help me. I tell her my son's bus was supposed to drop him off at 12:30, it's now 12:45 and there's been no bus. She immediately launches into a lecture about how I must have missed the bus and that my son is on the bus and was taken back to the school, then she starts lecturing me on the importance of being out there to get him off the bus on time, and about the drop off policy. I tell her that I've been waiting outside since 15 minutes before the bus was even scheduled to drop him off, and I've been outside the entire time, so no I did not miss the bus.
This finally shuts her up for a second then she asks me, "Your son's name is Joe right?" I tell her no, that's not my son, and give her his name. Then she tells me that some other parent forgot to get their kid off the bus and they had to take the kid back to the school, and that's why my son's bus was running late. It did finally show up at 1:00, 30 minutes late.
I was still really annoyed with the receptionist assuming I'd just forgotten to get my kid off the bus, and not even checking to see which kid I was talking about before launching into her lecture.
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