Parents of Columbus City Schools students have tolerated months of busing mishaps. The district says things will be fixed in January. Time will tell.
since her fourth-grade son disappeared into the South Side ether for a full two hours one afternoon in late August.
"It was a good two hours that I didn't know where he was, and they couldn't tell me where he was," she told me."I would have been calmer about the situation if they were able to say, 'Hey, she's new and missed his stop.'""They were so matter-of-fact about it," she said."I ended up calling the police. I didn't know what else to do."
Columbus City Schools officials have offered a range of excuses for the rash of failed pickups, missed drop-offs and late arrivals, including a nationwide shortage of drivers and problems with a $1.5-million software system that was supposed to make this whole operation more efficient.
Flores suspects this because several times since then, on her way back from the school, she has passed a boy who looks to be a little older than her son. She doesn't know him, his parents or their particular circumstances, but she does know that the bus is supposed to pick him up at 8:20 a.m. And he has seen him a few times now, alone, walking away from the bus stop at 8:45.
In the midst of all this bad busing news, there was another story to come out of the school district last week.
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