CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – A communication mix-up has some Albemarle County students and their families scrambling for a ride to school ahead of the first day of classes.
Parents said the school division failed to communicate the procedure for adding students who are transitioning from elementary school to middle school or middle school to high school and who need bus service for the first time to the bus schedule.
“There would always be reminders in the summer for parents to check PowerSchool and make sure that certain selections were in their profile, and there were none of those messages this year,” said Andrea Zimmerman, whose youngest child does not have a bus assignment for Wednesday’s start at Journey Middle School. “We realized after I saw a message on Facebook on the Journey page said that someone’s kid didn’t have an assignment. Then I checked and realized one of my kids didn’t have an assignment.”…