Marshfield has this system as well. It is a lot more strict, though. Tardiness is even awarded with a fine.

Ok. I apologize for ranting. I went a little overboard. I hope the staff removes that comment.

Bubs-good idea on having a parent earlier on the route call.

nurse4u,
While I understand your frustration, it doesn't appear that the bus company is being as unreasonable as you might feel.
With all the things that can slow a bus route and make bus stop times hard to predict (students running late for the bus, accidents, red lights, etc.). If every parent with a child with less than perfect health requested driveway pickup that takes just "an extra minute", your daughter's bus might be even less timely.
It sounds like your daughter is being offered a viable alternative, drive-way pickup on a bus that is shorter than average. While schools do mainstream as much as possible, it is sometimes necessary to give students with unique conditions different facilities or services. If your daughter takes half an hour to walk a block or two, the other students likely realize that she has a condition that causes this. Will riding the "short bus" but not being subjected to walking a difficult distance in weather that might exacerbate her condition really be worse for her?
As this law is focused on truants and your daughter has a medical condition, I would assume that with doctor's notes and an understanding of your inability to drive, you could work out a medical or excused absence with the school which would exempt her from truant status. You might be able to get a parent earlier on the route (or the bus driver) call you when the bus reaches a specific stop so that you can better judge when your daughter should leave.

Police officers can do more than one thing at a time. Cocaine at MHS does not require the entire PD to spend their work week investigating the issue. I would hazard a guess that drunk driving is less common during school hours.
While I certainly think that analyzing and critiquing time spent by police departments is important, it seems that people can never be happy. Sometimes they must spend their time doing things that aren't related to stopping drunk drivers or drug houses or stopping terrorist plots. There are more aspects to being a cop than just working on what everyone else considers important. In addition to those things, officers should and do spend time doing community policing and making themselves visible in the community as a deterrent.

What exactly IS there to do when skipping school in Milton???

TOMS "restuarant" and Stop & Go closed YEARS ago.....

"Forget about the cocaine in the Middle School Officer Bob, why is that child not in school?" Come on Milton! We have cocaine laying around in a teachers area of the school yet you want to fine kids and parents when the kids aren't in school? Sounds like skipping is the safer option here!

Maybe the police should start dealing with the bigger issues, like CRIME. If a kid skips school, give them a detention. Let the SCHOOL take care of it. "Oh, Im sorry I missed that drunk driver that just killed someone! I was writing a truency ticket to a ten year old!!!!"

basically boils down to they want more of the parents money, do these kids have money to pay the fines no, but the parents , wouldnt have a choice if it went through the court system, i would like to see these teachers and staff park 2 miles away from school and have to walk in all kinds of weather and make it to school everyday, there ya go new challenge to the teachers and staff park and walk,any takers?

I am tired of begging the Milton School District Bus Company to give me a narrow window of when to expect the bus.
Plus when asked if they could pick my daughter up at the driveway they told me she needs to ride the short bus. HHMM. I thought that children with disabilities are incorporated into the mainstream school to ensure they are not singled out. You don't think my daughter riding the short bus would single her out?
It would take an extra minute to pick her up and it takes a half hour for her to make it to the bus stop. I can not drive right now because of my injury. It is very frustrating.

Here's a thought:
What if the children take the bus to school and the parents have only one car or the car is broken and the kids miss the bus?
Let's be honest here.
My kids have to walk over a block to the bus stop. My daughter has a heart and lung condition. She tires easily and gets sick easily. The school buses come anywhere from 7:55am to 8:30 am. I am sorry but when it is raining or freezing out do you not think it is unrealistic to expect these children to wait in the rain and cold?
Maybe the children could catch the bus if the bus was here at a consistent time every day.
MAYBE just maybe, that could contribute to truancy.
JUST A THOUGHT.

have they considered not all kids attending milton live in the city , so its unlikely if those not liviing in city limits skip they will get caught in the city , kind of makes the ordinance a little unfair, the sad part is a comment a child made or is claimed to have made about having no punishment , makes the punishment extreme, what ever happened to dealing with the parents over their childs behavior,we hear constantly that the schools want parents to be involved but yet the schools shrug more and more of their responsibility off on the police department there was a time when the principal said they were calling your parent s, and that is the last thing you wanted to happen, now they call the police, and the kids are actually glad their parent came

If one takes into account recent articles, it becomes obvious that there is a further infiltration of police in our public schools, especially (perhaps) in Milton. This is scary. Back in the day, a student could make a mistake, even get into a brawl, and he would be punished by the school administration only. Now, he's punished by the police and even gets a record. Do we really want this kind of society?