You have to wonder what goes on in school board circles when a bus carrying 13 kids flips off a winter road onto its side and nobody calls the parents to let them know there’s been an accident.

Surely this speaks volumes about the need for school boards to get more in touch with their constituents.

Parents should have been contacted immediately and every step taken to ensure that none of the kids were unnecessarily traumatized by this accident.

To do nothing is simply not acceptable.

School boards throughout the province are not exactly enjoying the best of times these days. Witness the recent firing of the entire Halifax board.

And they all ought to be ever mindful of things like letting parents know what’s happening, especially in the case of an accident.

The irony is that school boards and schools are quick to implement policies dealing with things like photographing students but not so quick to pick up phones and alert parents about what’s just happened to the bus their kids were passengers on.

Instead of worrying about things that aren’t apt to have any serious impact on kids, they best start looking more seriously at dealing with very real situations like the one 13 kids and a bus driver just found themselves involved in.