Bus stop ID check?

[WolfpackWife]

I was just stopped for a school bus and noticed it was taking forever. I paid attention and realized every single person meeting a child was presenting an ID to the driver and she was checking them against what appeared to be a Master sheet. I was floored. Is this a thing now? Do you have to present an ID to pick a child up from the bus stop? What do kids who have two working parents do? I know I don't have children but am I alone in thinking this is just way overkill?


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[MrsK]

I think that it's a great idea until the driver knows the kids. Maybe it was a new driver?

[spotty_dog]

For our district, kindergarten and first graders have to be taken off the bus by an approved person. Second and older can walk home from the stop alone. The bus driver gets to know the procedure for each family, and I expect her to follow her gut when there are deviations. Eg. I usually meet my second grader even though I don't have to, so if I am not within visual contact she often holds him on the bus until I get there. But if I send my mom to the stop to meet them and they jump off screaming, "GRANDMA!" then she's hardly going to question that. When she has a substitute driver, I kind of wish he'd be more careful and cross-check who's meeting each kid. He lets kindergarteners off willy-nilly regardless of who's there.

Maybe that district recently had a scare with someone trying to walk off with a kid? We've had issues with creeps being creepy around the bus stop before.

[Ladybug]

Ours is such a small community. We just wave. Older kids can walk younger sibs home here too. They are pretty laid back here. I wonder if something happened there or there is an alert on a kid (family members that can't pick up per court order)