Bussing woes again irk Lawrence district families

Once again, bussing problems in the Lawrence School District has provoked upset among the parents of some yeshiva students.

“We need more organization of the transportation office,” said Cedarhurst resident Emily Oami, who works full-time and has two boys in Yeshiva of South Shore, in Woodmere, and two girls in Shulamith School for Girls, in Cedarhurst. “I had to physically come into the office,” she added. “It is not user-friendly.”

 Lack of communication and poor organization are the two major complaints voiced by parents about during the first several days of the new school year.

Oami’s issue — a change of bus stop location — was eventually resolved.

Rachel Guetta said she left 20 messages over a week’s time about getting her two daughters a bus to the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway. Guetta, who also works, said she registered the change on Aug. 28, and was told by transportation office staffers that it would take a week. When the bus didn’t show up when school began at HAFTR the following Thursday, Guetta began making calls.

 “There’s a bus stop right across the street from my house in North Woodmere,” she said. “Right now I’m just asking and inconveniencing friends [to get my kids]. They’re rearranging their schedules to help me.”