I thought perhaps we’d survive this round of budget cuts untouched.
No so fast, Solo-dad.
It seems that due to ‘budget cuts’ – really getting to hate that phrase- the school bus routes that served our area are now no longer in use.
At first, the school’s website posted a note saying that bus service was being effected by the budget cuts and that they’d be reorganizing existing routes to incorporate regional stops.
OK, I thought. So He can walk a little further in the afternoons. No problems there.
I check the update this morning only to learn that the closes regional stop is as far away as the school.
This is Problematic.
As I wrote in a previous post, summers can be a problem for single parents. My solution was to bring the issue to my supervisors at work and ask for a flexible schedule.
They agreed to a summer exception to the unwritten flex-time or work-from-home policies. I say ‘unwritten’ because there isn’t a published policy to support working off-site. Still, they were sympathetic and willing to give it a try.
I now must turn my attention to pitching it on a more permanent basis. I’m not hopeful they will be agreeable. Still, nothing ventured, nothing gained. 
