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I would storm down to the school district office with your hubby and make a lot of noise...and contact your school counsel member as well. This is outrageous. They are responsible for the safety of the child first & foremost. No excuses, scooter or no scooter.
Not Yet - the school office closes at 4:30 and it was nearly 5 when we got home. DH and I will go to the district office firt thing in the AM. I am writing a letter now that I will e-mail and bring in in case I am still so mad that I can't speak. My blood is still boiling, so I am reading happy posts to try and keep from shaking.
I don't have a photo from today, but this is from earlier in the year, and the street looked much the same: Thank God she never made it that far! her bus usually arrives at 10 after 4, she called at 3:58. If she were late, I would have assumed that it was because the bus took the back route due to the floods. She comes home quite late then, as she is dropped off at a different school to take their bus, they drop all those kids off, and then take her in the back way, and she gets hom at 4:40 when the road is flooded. I don't like thinking of what could have happened in the mean time had she not stopped at the gas station.
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I asked her for more details before she went to bed and it gets worse. She told the duty in charge that she was going to ride her scooter home (new duty who we don't know - she does not know where we live. Usually the principal is out overseeing the lines, but he was out this afternoon). Duty told her to go slow since the weather was terrible. She decided to go by my work in case I was still there (she forgot it is Wednesday and she had her harp lessons ... I leave early on Wednesdays to tune the beast). The man she saw was NOT my boss. He was some guy smoking a cigarette outside of a bar between the school and my office! (the smoking area is the sidewalk that she would have to pass on). He asked her what she was doing out in such terrible weather and told her that little girls should not be riding scooters in such weather. Then he told her he thinks he knows who she is. She said she did not talk to him, but kept going. She assumed he was my boss becasue I told her he is tall, old, has grey hair and reeks of cigarettes but he is very nice and he likes to talk.
After you get all this cleared up...consider getting her a cell phone. It has bailed my son out a few times. When in doubt, call mom. He has had a phone since K. I make him bring it to school. It is turned off. Juast there if he needs to call mom. Just cost me $5 a month via T-mobile family plan. With that rate, my MIL & mom has them too. Life saver...especially when mom is running late & he needs to stay clam.
Good investment.
