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And Another Thing for Parents to Worry About

Elementary school children in Westchester County, N.Y., started texting their parents: something was wrong on their bus ride to school. “I was telling him ‘you’re supposed to make this turn and go this way,’ but he wouldn’t even listen to us,” reported one 10-year-old girl. Parents leapt to action, using their kids’ cell phones to track them, and finding the bus. But even that didn’t help much: “I passed the bus three or four times on the Bronx River Parkway,” said the 10-year-old girl’s mom. She found the bus, two hours after it had picked up her daughter. “They’d be going in one direction, then they’d turn around.” The bus company, First Mile Square Transportation, fired the driver for not following proper procedures when he realized he was lost. (RC/WCBS New York) ...Note to the bus company: it’s the last mile and the round trip are the important parts.