Parents Raising Money For Carpool Van Sunday In North Tulsa

Residents of a Green Country neighborhood are desperate, saying Tulsa Public Schools is abandoning their kids because their only bus stop is gone.

And now parents are even more concerned about their kids walking to school after a student was hit and killed crossing a nearby intersection.

Parents at the Comanche Park Apartments say 70 kids lined up for the bus on the first day of school. But the bus never came, and the parents say TPS told them it won't come.

Two parents are now fundraising to buy vans for carpool.

They say they'd take kids from the apartments to Walt Whitman Elementary, which is about a mile away.

The parents say that without a ride to school, their kids have to cross the busy intersection at 36th Street North and Peoria Avenue and walk where there are no street lights or supervision.

Parents are now standing in as crossing guards, pooling resources to make sure their kids are safe.

"The people driving don't pay attention to kids,” parent Jo Nix said. “They don't have any courtesy or anything for them, so we had to do something. We can' t just let the kids keep getting hit."

The parents say TPS first told them it's not safe to have a bus stop there. They say TPS then said that the stop used to be a courtesy stop, not an official stop.

We haven't heard back from TPS about the matter.

The parents are selling turkey legs and barbecue on Sunday to raise money for the carpool vans.

They'll be at the gas station at 36th Street North and Peoria starting around noon.