This from New York 1:

Schools Chancellor Joel Klein got an earful Wednesday night from parents sounding off on the school bus route controversy and other issues that have come up since the school year began. NY1 Education reporter Michael Meenan filed the following report.

“I think it is a crock. First of all, how can you make a decision about what’s happening with the education of children, and you don’t involve the parents.”

That’s how community activist Denise Taylor of Brooklyn characterized the latest phase in the plan to overhaul the city schools, and at a packed town hall meeting in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn Wednesday night, she wasn’t the only one with questions for Schools Chancellor Joel Klein.

“There was one kid I just recently helped, who was signed out of school,” said Taylor. “He was a special ed kid. He had not been to school in three years because his mother died of cancer.

“If you ever had a kid like that again e-mail me,” responded Klein.

Klein’s mission was put to rest questions about last week’s school bus route change fiasco and get parents to concentrate on the big changes coming down the pike: redistricting, new funding formulas, outside partners coming into schools to help teach kids. But one woman said she had heard enough.