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Bus Off

Last year, Broward County, Fla., school buses failed to pick up thousands of students, or left them stranded, just in the first few weeks. This year, Wilson Cisneros said his daughter, 10, was deposited eight miles from her home stop, in the wrong city. She called him, and he found her among seven students waiting with a hospital security guard. That was the first day of class. The next morning, Jeannette Neerpat waited for the bus so long she gave up and drove her kids nearly 45 minutes to their elementary school. Superintendent Robert Runcie said that with 85,000 students to transport, of course there were some problems, and things really had improved. “We need to put it in perspective,” he said. (AC/South Florida Sun-Sentinel) ...Try putting it in the perspective of one of those 85,000 kids you might misplace.