Just my opinion, but I think that BISD made a major miscalculation in the realignment this year.
I drove to SFA from Copperfield this morning. Not knowing what to expect, (having been at Rayburn last year) we left home at 7:20 to grab breakfast and get to SFA by 8:05. Going there went perfectly with my dropping my student at 7:45. The trip back home was insane. WJB was backed up to Villa Maria with people trying to cross Highway 6 at Boonville. Boonville was backed up all the way past the cemetery with people trying to turn right on the feeder to Rayburn and to cross Highway 6.
Picking up my student at 3:47 was only slightly insane, but helped by the fact that the students were permitted to walk to cars parked along the side of SFA. As I was going to SFA, I noted that traffic turning right off Boonville to north bound feeder road (Rayburn) was sitting all the way back to the new Taco Bell. Getting home though, was crazy. WJB was backed up to Villa Maria, The southbound feeder road, left lane was backed up almost to MLK. I continued to Briarcrest on the feeder, to go to Copperfield.
Copperfield Drive was backed up to the school zone sign with parents waiting at 4:25. (The lights had already turned off for the school zone)
A school bus dropped kids by my house this evening at 6:30 - followed immediately by the robo-call apologizing for today's confusion and delays.
My guess is that BISD lacks enough buses and/or drivers to make a more palatable bus schedule. As it stands, my student would be on a bus with a transfer at Bryan High for about an hour each way. Call him a snowflake or whatever, but I think it is a lot to add two hours commute time to a long enough school day. (Most of us would complain about a one hour commute here in town, to work)
TLDR: Bus schedules are long and tedious and more parents than ever are driving kids to school, causing massive amounts of traffic. Having every single 5th and 6th grader consolidated into two schools, as well as every 7th and 8th grader the same way has caused a traffic overload that no one saw coming.