Some Moorhead Elementary School parents are unhappy with the route their students are taking home. Specifically, it's a route they say took them more than an hour and a half, via bus the first day, and in some cases left them at the wrong stop.
Parents say when the kids were more than an hour late getting home, they took to their cars to go find their children. Kindergartners and first graders were the ages parents reported being affected. Some kids were dropped off at home, rather than at the day cares they were supposed to go to.
The next day, one small boy was dropped off at home again, instead of day care. This time, though, the bus left him three blocks away from his home. His father, Corey Benesh, says the boy was already in tears the first day, and this didn't help.
"That's a scary fact for a kid. There's bad people in this world, and I don't want my kids at that kind of risk," says Benesh.
He also says his son, a first grader, tried to tell the bus driver on the first day he was supposed to stop at the day care, but the bus kept on going, upsetting the child. Thursday, he says, both children will be dropped off and school and picked up by one of their parents.
The district's transportation official says the district's computer system that tracks day cares isn't communicating properly with his transportation software. It wasn't available to check out until two days before school started, he says, and they're still working toward a fix to get the two computer programs to interact the way they're supposed to.
In the meantime, he says, they're relying on parents to call in -- and they'll update their information by hand.
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