30-year-old juggles 2 jobs and double shifts but keeps losing work due to school drop-off: ‘As a mom, you just find a way around it’

After leaving early in her function in the Amazon warehouse in Houston several times, Rivera was destroyed-but he was not surprised-when she was expelled.

Rivera, 42, said: “At the present time, I am depressed. I am depressed because of the simple truth that it is difficult to find a job, and there are bills that I must pay. But at the same time, children have to go to school,” Rivera, 42, said.

Rivera is far from the only father who was forced to choose between his job and teach their children, according to a new survey conducted by the Associated Press Nork Research for Public Affairs and Hopskipdrive, a company that relies on artificial intelligence and a network of drivers who use their own cars to help educational areas face transportation challenges.

The survey found that most parents pushing their children to school, and these responsibilities can have a great impact.

About a third of parents say that taking their children to school may cause the work to be missed, according to the poll. Nearly 3 out of 10 says they were prevented from searching for jobs or taking them. And 11 % say that school transportation causes them even to lose a job.

Mothers may say that school transport needs have interfered in their jobs and opportunities.

Smaller salaries, greater twice

The effect is not proportional to low -income families.

About 4 out of 10 parents who have a family of less than $ 100,000 a year said that they had missed work due to receiving needs, compared to about 3 out of 10 parents who have a family income of $ 100,000 or more.

Merridith Sayed and her two children, between the ages of 7 and 10, used to live in homeless shelter in North Carolina. Sayed said that the child’s father has been imprisoned since May.

Although the family is eligible for the government’s transfer to school, Sayed said that children will arrive early or leave very late under this system. Therefore, I decided to drop them and capture them on its own.

She was working in dual transformations as a gun and server at a French restaurant in Wilmengton, but she lost this job because of her loss over and over the dinner rush.

“Sometimes when you have children and you don’t have a village, you have to do what you should do,” said Sayed, 30 years old.

The latest obstacle: a broken car. You couldn’t fix it, so I sold it to an undesirable square. She hopes this year that the school will provide transportation that works better for her family.

Not all children can reach a school bus

Although about half of the parents who live in rural areas and small towns say their children are still taking a bus to school, this has decreased to about a third of parents in urban areas.

A separate AP-NORC/HOPSKIPDRIVE of school officials found that nearly half of the school bus driver deficiency was a “big problem” in their area.

Some school systems do not provide bus service. In other cases, the options available to families do not work.

The community in Long Island, New York, where my two children, Dorothy Krescollo provides schools service, but she does not want to ride them because they were diagnosed as nervous.

“I cannot be my children on a bus for 45 minutes, with all screaming and screaming, then I expect them to be fine as soon as they arrive at school, and they learn,” said Carskolo, 49.

So CRICUOLO drops them, and her wife picks them up. Many do not interfere with their work, but it hinders Criscuolo sleep. Since her typical transformation from 7 pm to 7 am and her children start at different times in different schools, it is not uncommon for you to get only three hours of sleep daily during the school year.

The transmission burden is heavier on mothers

It is often mothers who lead their children to and from school, as 68 % said they usually receive this task, compared to 57 % of parents.

Most mothers, 55 %, say they were absent from work, lost their jobs or kept from personal or professional opportunities due to school transportation needs, compared to 45 % of parents.

Serena Franklin says she had no choice. Her secondary school’s father died, so she had to take them and a 5 -year -old grandson to various schools in South Side in Chicago.

After she was more than 10 times late, she lost her job as a post at the post office and moved to driving for Uber and Einsakart to meet her needs.

Franklin, 41, said: “Most children have people who help to drop and capture them,” Franklin, 41, said.

When both parents are able to participate, duties of school capture and exit can be easier.

Computer programmer Jonathan Heiner takes his three children to school in Bilbruk, Ohio, and his wife picks them up.

“We are definitely very distinguished because of the fact that I have a very flexible job and it is a teacher, so it starts when the school comes out,” said Hiner, 45.

Parents want more options

Although the use of school buses has decreased for years throughout the United States, many parents want to see schools offer other options.

Nearly 4 of every 10 parents said that the transfer of their children to school would be “much easier” or “somewhat easier” if there are more school buses, or transportation services arranged by schools or infantry infrastructure and improved bikes near the school. About a third was martyred with an early or late start times, or the receipt sites and the central home buses.

Joanna McFarland, CEO and co -founder of Hopskipdrive, said that the provinces need to restore the responsibility for making sure that students are riding to school.

“I do not think that the way to solve this is to ask parents to search for innovative ideas,” said McFarland. “I think we really need to reach innovative ideas systematically and institutionally.”

In Houston, Rivera awaits a rear examination of another job. Meanwhile, she found a new solution to the needs of her family transportation.

Her 25 -year -old daughter, who is still working in Amazon in a day, returned to the house and dealt with her three younger brothers.

“She is going well,” Rivera said.

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The AP-NORC poll was conducted for 838 American adults who are parents of school-age children from June 30 to July 11, using a sample derived from the NORC-based amespeak panel, which was designed to be a representative of the United States. Sampling error for adults in general is plus or minus 4.6 degrees Celsius.

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Sanders mentioned from Washington.