WILKES-BARRE -- Parents whose children attend a day care facility in Wilkes-Barre are suddenly finding themselves stuck without transportation.
The Wilkes-Barre Area School District stopped busing the kids to the day care and the end of the practice has parents perplexed.
The owner of "Count On Us" day care says after 24 years the Wilkes-Barre Area School District has decided to stop picking up and dropping off kids at her day care. Now she is in danger of losing half the kids in her day care.
Parents say they might have to quit their jobs to now take their kids to school.
"I've been here 24 years, trying to accommodate working parents, and this may be the end," said owner Judy Marshall.
Marshall owns the day care center on Blackman Street in Wilkes-Barre. She takes care of more than 20 children, but she may lose half of them because school buses are driving past her day care and will no longer pickup her school-aged kids.
"They said in 1949 there was a law that said they had to bus from home to school and school to home."
Marshall says busing kids from her day care to school hasn't been a problem in 24 years, so she doesn't understand why the district is making it one now.
"I'm a homeowner. Do they want me to lose my job over having to take my son to school when the transportation is already being provided, just at a separate location?" said Cassandra Seemon.
Parents with children at this day care, like Cassandra Seemon, are frustrated especially since the school bus depot is just two buildings away.
There are even two bus stops along this street.
The owner says not only will the district no longer pick up students at her day care, those students also cannot use the bus stops down the street.
"I've already missed the last two days today and yesterday being one of them, where I had to not go to work so I can get him to school on time," said Seemon.
"It makes it more difficult for the parents to make sure their kids are taken care of by good people, and know that they are getting taken back and forth to school," said parent Theresa Vandemark.
We tried several times throughout the day to reach the superintendent and members of the Wilkes-Barre Area School Board. No one was available for comment.
Parents with kids at the day care and the owner are hoping to figure this all out at a school board meeting Monday night.