This sounds very unsupportive of working mom and dad’s. Schedules vary for working parents and the buss should be able to accommodate that flexibility. We brag about our school system--the buss is part of it! Don't brag about this lack of ability to be flexible.

I agree - while I understand the concern for safety I also think this is punishing working parents. What about those 1/2 Kindergarteners...how are working parents going to manage that when they have to juggle multiple childcare providers to make up for the other hours that the child isn't in K? There has got to be a more common sense approach to addressing safety (and presumably liability) concerns.

I agree that this is not a good idea. There are children in different child care situations and how would these be handled in families where both parents work or in a single parent family. Isn't there enough pressure for parents,now?

They are trying to hide behind the word "safety"? Really? Were there that many kids that ended up missing, hurt, or worse last year with the old policy in place?

Wow. I am shocked that the school committee would enact such a change TWO WEEKS before the school year begins! We are one of the two-parent working families who rely on before and after school child-care part of the week. This creates a predicament for not only us, but scores of East Greenwich families. We are highly unsupportive of this change!

I am shocked by this. I agree with Greg, two weeks before school starts. This is going to be a major issue for our family. Our children didn't need to go to after-school care every day, but is a necessity for the days they do. As a working parent now I have to find a way to pick them up at dismissal, or pay for another day of after-school care that they don't need. How is this better? Why weren't parents notified of this meeting? Was it easier to not have us there to voice our concerns? We live in East Greenwich because it's wonderful school district, I'm sad to say that included the busses here. I can not believe EG school district let this happen!

Terrible decision! It will it make life much more difficult for working parents and divorced parents. And the timing is unbelievable! You really blew it, school committee.

I really feel for all those parents this is effecting. All I can say is the committee is reviewing every policy it has and there are only 7 people making the decisions on changes. They welcome public voice but push through the policy changes quickly. This is taking much time away from needed work like all day k (which would solve many of the daycare bus problems), language implementations, and technology fixes. There is a primary on September 11 and an election on November 6th.

It is great that they sent out a List serve to parents on August 10th did they also send one out to the community? After all I am sure at one point people stood up to get transportation to daycares- are they still in school now? The problem is not changing the policy- the problem is why change the policy. Numerous times at the meetings money savings was mentioned, how much? If the town was willing to come together previously to have bussing than why change it now? This is the first policy this year sent out on list serve- they have changed many. Every policy is being reviewed by a small subcommittee on the school committee. Let’s hope this will not happen with other policies/laws in government -changes in these documents should be coming from a community concern- the policies have been set over years -having an open committee on every policy and only discussing it once it is changed is not a good idea.

I agree, I would like to know how this will save money and how much money will be saved with this change. After all, each bus will run every day anyway, whether there are 20 kids on that bus or 22. I don't see how money is saved whether a kid comes home on one bus or another.