ONE Glenthompson family was almost left stranded recently after they inadvertently discovered that the school bus their secondary school aged child had been travelling on for the past two years to Hamilton, was at capacity and a seat was no longer available.

However, after much angst and multiple phone calls to the Victorian Government’s Student Travel Assistance program, Lowan MP, Emma Kealy’s office, and an email to education minister, Ben Carroll’s office, at the eleventh hour last Thursday evening at 6.13pm, ‘miraculously’ the family had a travel offer approved.