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Parent tells board district transportation repeatedly lost her special‑needs son
Summary
A Fallbrook parent told trustees that the district's transportation department has repeatedly failed to locate her special‑needs son, citing multiple incidents last year, late dispatch notifications, and daily waits up to an hour for bus service; she asked the board to address these safety concerns.
Parent Mikaela Hutchinson used her allotted public comment time to describe repeated failures in the district transportation system affecting her special‑needs son.
Hutchinson said the transportation department "has now, multiple times, lost my special needs son," adding that dispatchers have been unable to tell her where he was or whether he had been dropped off at his daycare or left at school. She described six separate incidents last year in which dispatchers ran late and failed to notify the school site, and said the San Luis Rey CDC (on base) reported insufficient bus spots this year that leave children waiting at school up to an hour.
"I understand that the district received additional funding for transportation this year, and I'm really hoping that they'll make these changes so our kids aren't waiting an hour plus after school," Hutchinson said.
Her remarks requested the board take the safety and timeliness issues into consideration; the transcript records the comment, and the meeting adjourned later in the evening. The board did not provide a response on the record during Hutchinson's comment; next steps would require staff follow‑up to investigate the incidents and report findings back to the board.
