Pam Girardo learned her children would be prohibited from riding the school bus this year by way of an automated phone call.

Citing concerns for the safety of her first- and third-grade children at Taylor Elementary School, Girardo had appealed a new set of rules from Arlington Public Schools that said they had to walk nearly a mile to school each day.

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