*sigh*
The first we heard of the issues E was having on the bus was when the aide called me at home Friday one week before break. He’d been acting out for a couple of weeks, but no one thought to let his autism teachers or me know about it until after a bad pattern had developed and the bus driver was left with no recourse but to write him up.
After a few more weeks of issues and an inability to work effectively with the aide, we had to have an IEP meeting to arrange for Spec Ed transportation for E. We really want S to stay on the reg ed bus – with the bus stop 2.5 blocks down the street – so it is tricky. We had agreed that the spec ed bus would pick E up first, and then I would walk S down to the bus stop. In the afternoon, the spec ed bus will drop E off at the reg ed bus stop before S’s bus and we would wait together, rather than running from the house. However, the bus driver called tonight, and she can’t pick E up until 5 minutes after S’s bus is due, meaning that I would have to walk both boys to the reg ed bus stop, put S on the bus, have E have a meltdown because he couldn’t get on the bus, and then try to get him home in time to meet the other bus.
Needless to say, that won’t work.
So, I’m going to drive E & S to the bus and then E up to school until we can arrange something that works better.
