Friday, March 23, 2007

Hey, She's Only 5 Years Old!!!

What, exactly was the school district of New Rochelle, NY thinking?

It appears that the policy for dropping children off a school bus is to simply leave them, even if no parent is there to meet them. We're not talking teens, we're talking as young as five.

While the school district will now re-visit that policy in light of the news story that broke, it makes one wonder exactly such a thing could even occur.

So during the same week that Chubb goes over the top trying to stop a law firm from blogging because of too much imagined risk, a school district is found to have not even considered risk for its youngest students. A little common sense on both ends seems to be in order.

Labels: Blogging, Interesting Cases in the News

posted by Eric Turkewitz  # Permanent Link

Comments:

While the idea of leaving a 5 year old alone on a street corner is troubling, this is a situation with no viable solution. Let's assume Mom fails to arrive to pick up her kid because she's having a good ol' time sipping chardonney with her girlfriends at the local spa. She forgets all about junior. No one shows.

In the meantime, Bus Driver has a bus with 38 kids on board, all of whom have moms (and dads) awaiting their safe, happy return. Bus driver waits and waits for tipsy but happy mom to show, and she never does. Kids are sitting on bus for a half hour, getting cold. Moms and dads are waiting on street corners getting hot, wondering who kidnapped their babies and how they're going to pay the bills when they get back to work and the boss tells them to take a hike.

It's a sticky situation. At some point, somebody has to be responsible for something. But who?

# posted by  Scott Greenfield : March 24, 2007 5:48 AM

 

I think the solution is to keep the kid on the bus and return him/her to the school at the end of the run if the parent doesn't show to pick up. And I have to assume all drivers have a phone to use to call school and/or home. But simply leaving a 5-year old on the street is the worst of all choices.

--ET

# posted by  Eric Turkewitz : March 24, 2007 1:26 PM

 

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