child with Fragile X takes 45 minute bus ride to school

[MrYikes]

48. The bus driver

should call to make sure a health professional was available prior to arriving at the pick up point. If no health professional is available, the parents would ride with the child or transport the child themselves. The bus driver is never to accept the responsibility of the child's health.
The child would be placed in seat belts by the bus monitor and the monitor would stay in visual contact with the child.

Pulling one bus to transport that one child may have caused three buses to be potentially overloaded and caused the children on those buses an even longer bus ride. One hour on a bus was the target, with one hour ten minutes occasionally overlooked.

You say "In fact hung up the phone on the parents a couple of times." What possibly would cause anyone to do that? Can you think of any reasons? I can.

Then you say "With the threat of bad publicity," Bad publicity does reduce funding, everyone happy now?

And then "This is what makes me angry with our public school system." Now tell me how angry the parents of the children who get home too late (yes the same rules apply transporting home) because of the overloaded buses are going to be and what voice do they use?

Buses cost over $100,000 and are replaced in 10 years with a yearly use of 200 days, therefore it costs $200 per day for the bus for that one child. Insurance, maintenance, fuel cost, driver cost, monitor cost, health professional cost would take the cost to $350. Are we all happy now?

Give the schools enough money and everyone will be happy. One child, one bus. Hey it worked for these parents, why not everyone?

Busing has one focus, safety. Because school bus people do that job well and without fanfare, people feel comfortable telling them how to do their job, therefore rules are created and published. Problems develop when trying to circumvent those rules.
With special needs kids come special rules which take into account various issues. Those rules are published and should be known by parents. Everyone wins when a new rule is added because some parent fought for their child's need. No one is against this, but it cannot be done over a casual phone call.