Maintaining a system of route sheets for all special needs buses is an essential service to assure appropriate services to all special needs students. The route sheet provides updated and valid routing information that the Substitute Driver will require when the regular driver is not able to drive. Only an updated and valid route sheet can work that is maintained in the Special Need Route Manager's office. That route sheet can be faxed to anther bus station or copied and handed to the Substitute Driver. Tracking the time length of each student's AM or PM ride.
Most school districts state their standard for maximum length of ride to be one hour or less.
Your child may have a longer ride than the maximum length of the bus ride should be. You may have your special needs child assigned to a special education program in a building that is distant from your home. The program available and appropriate to your student may be at the opposite end of the school district map. Your child may be picked up first during the AM route because your home is the furtherest away from the special education building or program destination. Other children are picked up next and progressively as they live closer and closer on the inbound bus route.