OVIEDO, Fla. -- A massive traffic jam clogged the road leading to a Seminole County elementary school Thursday morning and it was all done on purpose. Parents staged a "drive-in" protest at Evans Elementary School in Oviedo.

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The construction is wrapping up near sidewalks along Alafaya Trail in Oviedo. The construction here is wrapped up. With those dangers removed, Seminole County Schools intended to end busing for children living nearby.

But parents say, in some of their neighborhoods, there still aren't sidewalks, and they want more than a curb separating their children from six lanes of traffic.

Julie Clyatt's six-year-old boy attends John Evans Elementary School in Oviedo. He has always taken the bus home from school, but his mother and the parents of more than 300 other children living within two miles of the school were told that would end in January.

The school district has since suspended that decision.

"I think, even if they deem it to be unsafe, at this time our concern is [that] in six months it won't be any safer," says Clyatt.

Thursday morning, parents demonstrated their objection to the possible end of bussing for their children by driving their children to class in droves.

Clyatt says she doesn't want her own child put in the same situation on Alafaya Trail as she was walking along Red Bug Road in Seminole County when a driver came up on the sidewalk.

"That was the most frightening experience of our lives and we said we'd never walk it again and we didn't and I can't imagine my child having to face that," Clyatt says.

"What the school district and what parents want are the same thing. We have the same intent; we have different approaches to make it happen," says Kenneth Lewis, director of Seminole County Schools transportation division.

Lewis says the district's safety committee is studying options that might make the intersection safer for students. They'll discuss those options next week with parents.

"If I have to sit in the car for 5, 10, 15 minutes, so be it, because I'd rather sit in the car for 15 minutes than lose my child," says Alison Sitar.

The district and parents will take part in a safety meeting on November 16th. A number of parents will be speaking at that meeting.