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Guest	Posted: Tue, Sep 13 2011, 5:12 pm EDT    Post subject: Re: CRANBURY: District changes its school bus vendors Guest wrote: Guest wrote: Please specify the bus number that has issues. Already did. Read previous posts. #2 Does the bus route have too many stops? If so, you and your neighbors (or anyone on this route) should write a complain letter (signed by parents) to the BoE.
Guest	Posted: Tue, Sep 13 2011, 4:22 pm EDT    Post subject: Re: CRANBURY: District changes its school bus vendors Guest wrote: Guest wrote: Guest wrote: People complaining to the school board seems to be how we ended up in our current situation. Is it possible people forgot how lousy Dapper was? Or maybe they didn't get to experience it for themselves. http://eastwindsor.patch.com/articles/cranbury-school-board-examines-transportation This seems like change for the sake of change without any real plan. I remember when everyone used to know their bus driver and developed a relationship with them through the years. With all these changes its impossible for a child to get to know their drivers. We did know the bus driver last year. She lived, and still lives, in Cranbury. In all the years of the service, she is the only one who ever responded to any attempt by the parents on our street to get to knwo them. She cared about the kids and got them there on time. Now she's out of work. It's unfortunate that kids are now late to school and a hard working Cranbury resident had to lose her job over this. Because one driver allegedly backed in to a tree, which there was no evidence of.
Guest	Posted: Tue, Sep 13 2011, 3:42 pm EDT    Post subject: Re: CRANBURY: District changes its school bus vendors Guest wrote: Guest wrote: People complaining to the school board seems to be how we ended up in our current situation. Is it possible people forgot how lousy Dapper was? Or maybe they didn't get to experience it for themselves. http://eastwindsor.patch.com/articles/cranbury-school-board-examines-transportation This seems like change for the sake of change without any real plan. I remember when everyone used to know their bus driver and developed a relationship with them through the years. With all these changes its impossible for a child to get to know their drivers. We did know the bus driver last year. She lived, and still lives, in Cranbury. In all the years of the service, she is the only one who ever responded to any attempt by the parents on our street to get to knwo them. She cared about the kids and got them there on time. Now she's out of work.
Guest	Posted: Tue, Sep 13 2011, 3:28 pm EDT    Post subject: Re: CRANBURY: District changes its school bus vendors Guest wrote: People complaining to the school board seems to be how we ended up in our current situation. Is it possible people forgot how lousy Dapper was? Or maybe they didn't get to experience it for themselves. http://eastwindsor.patch.com/articles/cranbury-school-board-examines-transportation This seems like change for the sake of change without any real plan. I remember when everyone used to know their bus driver and developed a relationship with them through the years. With all these changes its impossible for a child to get to know their drivers.
Guest	Posted: Tue, Sep 13 2011, 1:50 pm EDT    Post subject: Re: CRANBURY: District changes its school bus vendors Guest wrote: Please specify the bus number that has issues. Already did. Read previous posts. #2
Guest	Posted: Tue, Sep 13 2011, 1:46 pm EDT    Post subject: Re: CRANBURY: District changes its school bus vendors People complaining to the school board seems to be how we ended up in our current situation. Is it possible people forgot how lousy Dapper was? Or maybe they didn't get to experience it for themselves. http://eastwindsor.patch.com/articles/cranbury-school-board-examines-transportation
Guest	Posted: Tue, Sep 13 2011, 1:17 pm EDT    Post subject: Re: CRANBURY: District changes its school bus vendors Please specify the bus number that has issues.
Guest	Posted: Tue, Sep 13 2011, 12:57 pm EDT    Post subject: Re: CRANBURY: District changes its school bus vendors Stop complaining here and go to the next board of Education meeting. Let them know your concerns.
Guest	Posted: Tue, Sep 13 2011, 12:46 pm EDT    Post subject: Re: CRANBURY: District changes its school bus vendors Guest wrote: The bus service has been just as good if not better then last year stop complaining Sinmply not true. Last year was the best year we've had it in at least 5 years. Perhaps it wasn't for you, but it was for us. Last year we had a driver who cared, who lived here locally, who interacted with the kids aand who managed to deliver them on time. So you're saying you have no problem with kids being 15 minutes late every day and missing tests. Or as long as it isn't your kid it's fine.
Guest	Posted: Tue, Sep 13 2011, 12:21 pm EDT    Post subject: Re: CRANBURY: District changes its school bus vendors The bus service has been just as good if not better then last year stop complaining
Guest	Posted: Tue, Sep 13 2011, 11:28 am EDT    Post subject: Re: CRANBURY: District changes its school bus vendors Getting rid of the Negba without any plan for something better seems pretty shortsighted.
Guest	Posted: Tue, Sep 13 2011, 11:25 am EDT    Post subject: Re: CRANBURY: District changes its school bus vendors First day delays are understandable - it is not acceptable, but understandable if drivers did not spend time getting familiar with their routes as they should have done. But to have these problems continue into week 2 is hard to justify. Affected people should definitely document the problem and inform the school/school board. I wonder if there are non-performance clauses in the contract.
Guest	Posted: Tue, Sep 13 2011, 11:09 am EDT    Post subject: Re: CRANBURY: District changes its school bus vendors Yesterday my kids didn't make it to class until 8:45 straight from getting off the bus. One of them walked in half way through a quiz. They have yet to arrive on time. If the school is going to tolerate the bus regularly delivering kids late as it did the last time they used this company they need to be fair to the kids and not penalize them for their late arrivals by missing classwork.
Guest	Posted: Tue, Sep 13 2011, 10:57 am EDT    Post subject: Re: CRANBURY: District changes its school bus vendors The problems seemed to continue in to this week as well. Why exactly did we switch? Was it just a cost issue? I remember hearing something about some parents wanting to switch but I never got the details. Can anyone enlighten me?
Guest	Posted: Fri, Sep 9 2011, 8:20 pm EDT    Post subject: Re: CRANBURY: District changes its school bus vendors Guest wrote: Guest wrote: The bus never showed up today at all. That's two days for two it failed to deliver kids before school started. Do you know the bus number? Our bus arrived on time so far. #2 It probably doesn't help that it has a ridiculously wide route that goes from the school to Route 130 at the end of Main to Old Cranbury, up Old Trenton, across Ancil Davison, up Cranbury Neck to George Davison, George Davison to Plainsboro Road and down Plainsboro, etc. It seems to circumnavigate almost all of residential Cranbury, some of Plainsboro and part of East Windsor.
Guest	Posted: Fri, Sep 9 2011, 12:34 pm EDT    Post subject: Re: CRANBURY: District changes its school bus vendors Is there any recourse built into the bus contract - for example, penalty for these types of problems?