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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 401054" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>In thank you's mind the alarm is to chase off the dogs. Period. This is one way that his brain simply doesn't think "out of the box". He is a very creative kid in many ways, but in social situations he doesn't react that fast and has more problems. I have no idea why more parents don't react except that I think many don't realize that they CAN react. After all, the kids don't know the names of all the kids on the bus (many grades from different schools on the same bus) and the bus barm people are NOT responsive to much of anything. Three or four years ago thank you had 3 winter coats taken by older kids. He would get off the bus in snow and ice, once even freezing rain with no coat and the driver didn't even NOTICE, even though the schools enforce a policy that kids MUST have coats in that kind of weather or they cannot leave the building with-o a parent with a car. Not just with a parent, parent must have a car to drive the child home. At the end of every day the coats were taken off the bus. The next day the drivers could take them home if they had kids/relatives who would wear them (or they wanted to keep them for garage sales as several of the drivers did to earn extra $$ selling "lost" property). Not after a week or two, 24 hours later. If a parent came they could look at the lost and found but nice stuff (esp electronics) did NOT ever get there. Parents were told taht very little is left on the bus because the drivers are "vigilant" to make sure kids have their coats, hats, backpacks, etc... - IF they were told there was a lost and found at the bus barn at all. The secretary/phone person was dating one of the drivers who was holding garage sales and often told parents that found items were delivered to the schools so that the schools could find the owners - part of the reason that you are supposed to put your child's name and school on their belongings. Things got a little bit better when the garage sale of stolen property was exposed to the district (police wouldn't act because "no one" saw the thefts and because it would "embarrass the school district for actions they could not control" or so several of us were told) by a parent who bought designer clothes for her 1st and 2nd grade sons - names like Polo and whoever else is popular and costs $40-$50 for a shirt. She got upset when her boys came home twice with just undershirts or no shirts under their coats. Her boys said that an older kid made them take their shirts off and then handed tehm to teh driver when he got off - and the driver said he didn't have the shirts even though the boys saw him receive them! The shirts were magically "found" and returned to her (with grease stains because the guy worked on cars and was lousy about cleaning his hands). In the way of the "good ol' boys" out here, the secretary got fired for telling people that they had no lost and found and the driver was assigned to another route. He didn't get fired because he was a college kid "trying to make ends meet" and she did even though she was a single parent with kids of her own and no child support. </p><p> </p><p>Those of you who live in small towns will likely be familiar with this kind of thing. In many ways we are a fairly progressive town, but there are still problems, esp in the parts of the school, city gov't, etc... that are not quite as exposed to the public, Know what I mean??</p><p> </p><p>anyway, I have to go and call the school and bus barn now. Seems they don't answer the phone before 8 anymore.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 401054, member: 1233"] In thank you's mind the alarm is to chase off the dogs. Period. This is one way that his brain simply doesn't think "out of the box". He is a very creative kid in many ways, but in social situations he doesn't react that fast and has more problems. I have no idea why more parents don't react except that I think many don't realize that they CAN react. After all, the kids don't know the names of all the kids on the bus (many grades from different schools on the same bus) and the bus barm people are NOT responsive to much of anything. Three or four years ago thank you had 3 winter coats taken by older kids. He would get off the bus in snow and ice, once even freezing rain with no coat and the driver didn't even NOTICE, even though the schools enforce a policy that kids MUST have coats in that kind of weather or they cannot leave the building with-o a parent with a car. Not just with a parent, parent must have a car to drive the child home. At the end of every day the coats were taken off the bus. The next day the drivers could take them home if they had kids/relatives who would wear them (or they wanted to keep them for garage sales as several of the drivers did to earn extra $$ selling "lost" property). Not after a week or two, 24 hours later. If a parent came they could look at the lost and found but nice stuff (esp electronics) did NOT ever get there. Parents were told taht very little is left on the bus because the drivers are "vigilant" to make sure kids have their coats, hats, backpacks, etc... - IF they were told there was a lost and found at the bus barn at all. The secretary/phone person was dating one of the drivers who was holding garage sales and often told parents that found items were delivered to the schools so that the schools could find the owners - part of the reason that you are supposed to put your child's name and school on their belongings. Things got a little bit better when the garage sale of stolen property was exposed to the district (police wouldn't act because "no one" saw the thefts and because it would "embarrass the school district for actions they could not control" or so several of us were told) by a parent who bought designer clothes for her 1st and 2nd grade sons - names like Polo and whoever else is popular and costs $40-$50 for a shirt. She got upset when her boys came home twice with just undershirts or no shirts under their coats. Her boys said that an older kid made them take their shirts off and then handed tehm to teh driver when he got off - and the driver said he didn't have the shirts even though the boys saw him receive them! The shirts were magically "found" and returned to her (with grease stains because the guy worked on cars and was lousy about cleaning his hands). In the way of the "good ol' boys" out here, the secretary got fired for telling people that they had no lost and found and the driver was assigned to another route. He didn't get fired because he was a college kid "trying to make ends meet" and she did even though she was a single parent with kids of her own and no child support. Those of you who live in small towns will likely be familiar with this kind of thing. In many ways we are a fairly progressive town, but there are still problems, esp in the parts of the school, city gov't, etc... that are not quite as exposed to the public, Know what I mean?? anyway, I have to go and call the school and bus barn now. Seems they don't answer the phone before 8 anymore. [/QUOTE]
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