Transportation rights | Autism PDD
[QUOTE=Dremakeranch]I beleive the Federal mandate requires the transport to be door to door. Your first step is to call trasportation and report. Try to get the driver changed. If they refuse make a formal request for an IEP(in writing). Let the IEP team know that the drivers behavior is having a negative effect on your sons progress. Put everything including the loud music into your IEP. If they will not provide accomidation then the district is required to pay for a private transport of your choosong. The IEP has to be done first, but you can call as manny IEP's as needed untill the problem is resolved. Good luck![/QUOTE]
Wrong. Depends upon what is checked in the IEP in regards to transportation. You have to have someone at the IEP meeting that can make decisions for the district. It would help if you also had letters from their doctors and specialists backing up your point too. But it all goes back into what is checked in the IEP in regards to transportation. The only federal mandate there is , is that the school district furnish transportation for special needs kids.
Tammy
look on your iep. does it say he needs curb to curb service. if so driver has to come pick him up at your door whether he likes it or not. if the loud music bothers your child and you can document it like having teacher say he is unsettled when he gets to school, you can ask district to have him stop playing loud music. also can call bus company and complain that driver honking horn too loudly and your neighbors are complaining. would let school district transportation office know about all your complaints. may treat you like a pain in the a-- but usually they do something about it. we live in phila. and my son being transported for 14 years now can not tell you the hell i have been through with them.Actually depends upon the district and their regulations in regard to transportation. Like here I can't have a meeting with transportation, in that I can't call a meeting with transportation. You first have to call an iep meeting, bring it to the iep leader's attention. Then insist on having a transportation meeting. And have it very specific in the iep in regards to transportation.
Tammy
This summer I have had a lot of problems with Gavin's bus driver. Heis extremely rude to me and has an incredibly short fuse. He plays
loud music on the bus and honks his horn as he is driving to make
sure ducks and geese do not cross in front of him. Gavin is also
scared of him for some reason and begs for me to drive him to
school every day. I also live in an apartment complex and have a
hard time getting the driver to pull into my parking lot. It is a
circular lot and buses pull in here all the time without problem, but
this guy won't so I have to walk a block and a half carrying my two
kids out to a busy street to wait for the bus. I am worried that I will
be assigned the same bus driver in the fall and I want to request a
different driver, but I'm not sure if I have the right to do that. Does
any know about our rights as far as transportation is concerned? Do
I have the right to request a different driver? Can I also insist that
they at least pull into my parking lot so I don't have to wait on a
busy street? I don't want to be a nuisance but the situation this
summer has driven me to tears several times and I don't think I
could take it for the full school year.
Gavin's Mom,
I argee with Nick'smom. This man is way out of line.
Is this a special needs driver or city transport? If you already said I didn't catch it.
I also have a wonderful special needs busdriver. She can't quite come up my drive (it would tear up her bus) but she does pull in and beep if we aren't there never when we are in sight. She always greets Takoda who just ignores her usally. But she is so nice he went through a stage were he was so comfortable with her he climbed over to her lap and asked her about the door controls.
Goodluck! Nelle Hi Gavin's Mom I'm sorry to hear that you having trouble with your son's bus driver. My DS has been taking Specail Ed Transportation(provided by the public school system in our town) to and from school for 4 years now. We have never had a problem with any of the drivers so far. I think if I did I would call the person in charge of the public schools transportation and report it to her.............this guy sounds like a total jerk momof1 Honestly, I don't have any children in school yet or using a bus. But what you describe to me sounds incredibley unfair, as far as what you and your son have to go through just to take a damn bus! Myself, I would report him. I don't know how to do such a thing, but playing loud music, being rude, making your life difficult, etc! I don't see why he has that right.
Amber Gavins mom I was under the impression that they have to do door to door service! Especially for a child your sons age!! My son is 5 and riding a bus with preschoolers all with special needs and he is brought up the drive way in all kinds of weather. Thank goodness for his bus driver if she is early she gets off the bus brings him to the door she even carried him one day when he was asleep!! She has also been somewhat educated in autism so that helps she will let us know if she is taking the day off so we can prepare for a substitute driver. Sorry things are going bad for you and your son I would deffinetly complain you and your son have rights and you don't want him ruined from riding the bus he has many years of school ahead of him. I would find out about the door to door service for sure. Good luck
............who has no patience and should not be transporting kids with special needs. it makes me mad that this guy is scaring kids because our kids have enough challenges as it is. I'm sure you can request another driver especially if your son is afraid of the guy. Good Luck and keep us posted.
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