After months of frustration, one Milwaukee Public Schools parent says she’s had enough.
She says the school bus doesn’t pick her child up on a regular basis and he’s suffering as a result.
“Every unexcused absence that my child has is because of the bus,” said Deborah Watson.
Deborah Watson’s 7-year-old son Deston is a first grader at Hopkins Lloyd Elementary School.
She says since the start of the school year, he has missed close to ten days because the bus hasn’t shown up.
“My child, I will say, twice a week, don’t get on a bus because they don’t come. They don’t communicate. And when I do reach out to them, they’re answering the phone with an attitude, and they’re hanging up on me. I don’t know what to do,” said Watson.
Deborah works overnights and says she depends on the bus to get her kids to school.
Without it, she says the nearly mile and a half walk is almost impossible.
“Before I lost access to a vehicle, my kids’ attendance was perfect. Never missed a day and ever since then, where I had to depend on the bus, his attendance is horrible, it sucks,” said Watson.