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Wake County mom panics after seeing 5:30 a.m. bus pick-up for kindergartner

Tuesday, June 25, 2019
RALEIGH (WTVD) -- When Wake County mom Courtney Hodge Manning saw the bus schedule for her two elementary school kids, she thought there had to be a mistake and she was right.

"It was just mind-boggling," she said. "I thought it absolutely had to be a typo. I thought, there's no way."
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A letter said that her third grader and kindergartner would have to be at the school bus at 5:35 a.m. to get to North Forest Pines Elementary School.

"I cannot fathom waking up a 5-year-old at 5 a.m. to go to school when school doesn't even start until 7:45. She'll be up three hours before the day even starts," said Manning.
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She worries her kids would be tired and it would affect their learning.

ABC11 contacted the district and learned there was in fact a typo. An official told ABC11 the transportation department is in the process of correcting the problem.
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