Afterschool bus fail

Hi folks, I'm so pissed to receive this message today (one day *after* my kid was left twiddling her thumbs at the Brooks for an hour+ and didn't get to her afterschool until after 4pm).

We regret to inform you that we were notified this week by our yellow bus vendor that they are unable to provide us with the additional bus we requested last year to accommodate all of the Brooks students going to Sigma Martial Arts and Ready, Set, Kids North St (RSK).We have been trying to work with them to figure out a solution, but the best they are able to offer (until they can hire additional drivers) is to have a bus loop back after their assigned route (for the first few days of school, they were able to employ their back-up driver to do the Sigma/RSK run). Unfortunately, the loop-back bus won't get to Brooks to pick up until around 3:30.We are continuing to push our vendor to address this but for now, this is our only solution. We have notified Sigma and RSK of this.Again, we sincerely apologize for this inconvenience and we will keep you informed as we get updated.

I plan to contact the bus coordinator, principal, and perhaps the superintendent, but I'm posting it here in the hopes that some of our city councillors and school committee members might see it here. We have a *big* problem with the buses, and just foisting it on the school to provide an extra hour of supervision while they wait for a *very* late bus is a pretty terrible solution.