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After my divorce, my ex-wife rented an apartment in our children’s current school district. I unfortunately had to rent an apartment outside the school district for monetary reasons; child support and alimony. Sound familiar? So, I drove them to-and-from their elementary school daily. A few years later I remarried and we looked for a house that would be in the school district. This way I would no longer have to drive them and they could now be bused to-and-from school.
We found a beautiful house with a yard for the kids to play in, that we are still in today, while my ex has uprooted the kids 4 times. Only to be told by the school district that their “Bus Policy” is a child can only be bused to one household. With today’s current divorce rate I was baffled to find that this was an issue. I have 50/50 custody, but they can not take the bus home to my house? The bus stop is five houses from mine, a stone throw away, but I had to drive by all the other kids from their school taking the bus. My argument with the school district was I own my house, pay school taxes, while my ex-wife who rents her apartment is the only house they will bus my children to! UNBELIEVABLE!!
Numerous phone calls to the school superintendent yielded no results.
I didn’t stop there. I had my lawyer draft a letter to the superintendent of schools. Seems that lawyer stationery has magical powers! My kids could now take the bus to my house, the primary custodial parent. At the beginning of the next school year my kids brought home there welcoming packet of papers, much to my surprise included the re-written “Bus Policy”. Now included busing children of divorced parents to both households. Common sense you would think but I had to jump through hoops to make this happen.
Fight the Power!
