STOUGHTON, Mass. — Parents in Stoughton are fired up after about 150 students who signed up for a bus this year were denied a seat.
Many parents voiced their concerns during a virtual meeting Monday night, as they scrambled to figure out how to get their kids to and from school in just a couple of weeks.
“I’m a single mom, so I have no option of picking him up, I don’t work from home, I have no other choice but to have him take the bus,” said Jamie Brough, a mother of a 6th grader in Stoughton.
School district leaders say the buses are at capacity for a few reasons.
One is the district is down a bus from last year, and the demand for them went up about 12% this year.
“Since the announcement last week, we’ve reviewed all transportation requests one by one,” said Joseph Baeta, Superintendent of Stoughton Public Schools. …