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District, contractor face criticism after clubs-bus misload, hourlong parent alarm
Summary
At a Pottsgrove School District board meeting, CMD COO Jennifer Hovey reviewed a Feb. 13 incident in which students from multiple routes boarded the wrong activity bus, prompting a police response and an hourlong delay before some parents were notified. Board members urged immediate fixes to district-contractor communication with families.
At a meeting of the Pottsgrove School District Board of School Directors, Jennifer Hovey, chief operating officer of contractor CMD, described a Feb. 13 evening in which multiple errors on activity/club bus routes led to children from different runs boarding the same bus, a police stop and an hourlong delay before a number of parents were notified.
Hovey told the board that the problem began when a Ringing Rocks driver picked up students and then, at Lower Pottsgrove Elementary, allowed additional children to board whom the driver later could not match to the roster. "The driver that was involved, really their biggest mistake was not, stopping the children from boarding at the time time that it happened," Hovey said. She described…
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