Comments on: Bus-ted http://brettberk.com/2008/09/01/bus-ted/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:17:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Beth http://brettberk.com/2008/09/01/bus-ted/comment-page-1/#comment-396 Beth Sat, 13 Sep 2008 03:59:33 +0000 http://brettberk.com/2008/09/01/bus-ted/#comment-396 This was years ago (the kid in question is now a senior in high school), but my sister's first day of kindergarten ended in a scary way due to falling through the cracks. Her friend from down the street and she were supposed to be attending the after-school program, a short walk down the hall from their kindergarten classroom. Instead, they somehow got herded onto the buses and sent home. The home where, y'know, they had no parents (or siblings; I was a freshman in college at this point) home for them. Fortunately, the other girl's back door to their garage was open, and by the time the after-school program determined they were missing, got ahold of parents, and parents got home, the girls were found sitting the in the front window of the friend's house, each with an arm around the dog, tears streaming down their faces as they waited for a parent to come and find them. Nothing bad happened to them, but you can bet that no other little girls were so actively watched and monitored for the rest of the year after the two sets of parents were done with the school. The girls had tried to tell them that they weren't bus students, but they were only five; what did they know? This was years ago (the kid in question is now a senior in high school), but my sister’s first day of kindergarten ended in a scary way due to falling through the cracks. Her friend from down the street and she were supposed to be attending the after-school program, a short walk down the hall from their kindergarten classroom. Instead, they somehow got herded onto the buses and sent home. The home where, y’know, they had no parents (or siblings; I was a freshman in college at this point) home for them. Fortunately, the other girl’s back door to their garage was open, and by the time the after-school program determined they were missing, got ahold of parents, and parents got home, the girls were found sitting the in the front window of the friend’s house, each with an arm around the dog, tears streaming down their faces as they waited for a parent to come and find them.

Nothing bad happened to them, but you can bet that no other little girls were so actively watched and monitored for the rest of the year after the two sets of parents were done with the school. The girls had tried to tell them that they weren’t bus students, but they were only five; what did they know?

]]>