Sixth grader Andrel Henderson has missed more than one hundred days of school this year. A couple weeks ago, a school social worker arrived at his home to confront his mother Charise Henderson about his chronic absenteeism.
“So I said, ‘Hold on, but never are y’all addressing he didn’t have transportation,'” Charise explained.
Wake County Schools has assigned three of Charise’s sons, Andrel, Keanthony, and Zamont, to take vans to school driven by contracted vendors instead of a typical yellow school bus, because each of her sons has special needs. They rely on these vans…