Occasionally this format causes some issues. Parents sometimes refuse needed second language support for their children because it is more important to them that they stay with older siblings at the attendance school than receive the language support.
This is currently the case for a little girl at my school who is now in an all English kindergarten room, but speaks zero English. The mildly ironic thing about the parents refusing services is that our kindergarten program is only half day, so the kid goes home on the bus without her older sibling anyway.
On day three of our new school year, the little girl was trying to tell the bus driver something on her midday trip home. The driver, who speaks no Spanish, made the deduction that the girls was becoming ill and (while driving) handed back to her the little garbage can normally housed at the front of the bus. Upon receipt, the little girl proceeded to drop trou and take a nice big piss in the garbage can. Hey, when you gotta go...
After the office was informed by the bus company, we had a chuckle in the about the situation and all commented that it didn't take long for things to return to 'midseason form' in terms of the everyday adventures of school operations. But when school ended, the students father showed up. And he was mad...
Dad spoke a little English, but he was so animated in his anger that we were having a hard time understanding him. Besides, what exactly was he pissed about? I mean, they refuse services and then piss in the school bus garbage can. There are lots of people who should be upset here before this guy. Right?
Well, it turns out after we settled him down a little that he wasn't particularly upset about any of the events that took place on the bus that afternoon. He was upset because the bus driver elected to leave the garbage can full of his daughter's piss on his driveway. He wanted the bus company to send the driver to his house to remove it. So that's a first.
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