Bus driver leaves four-year-old at stranger's house

[egarrard]

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=local&id=3925751
All a four-year-old boy wanted to do was go to the bathroom. Now a Dayton ISD bus driver is suspended for what happened next. That bus driver is in hot water for leaving the child alone while she continued with her bus route.

"I had to go potty real bad," he recalled.

Cameron was apparently crying when he told his school bus driver he had to use the restroom. It's what happened next that has the child's mother furious.

A representative for Dayton ISD says the bus driver stopped at another child's house and told Cameron to go inside and use the restroom.

"She lets him off the bus, she continues on her route," said his mother. "She comes back around, waits another five minutes for him to come out. When he didn't come out, she sent my eight-year-old daughter off the bus at the same stranger's house to go and get him."

"I went all by myself," said Cameron.

Don't people even think about the consequences of what they do anymore? :lmao

You new parents need to keep things like this in mind. It isn't like when you grew up. :Sigh

[nighthawk15]

That bus driver needs to be fired. Who leaves a four year old kid alone at a strangers house?

[eire1274]

That bus driver needs to be fired. Who leaves a four year old kid alone at a strangers house?
Note: this is Dayton, Texas.

In Texas, school-bus drivers are state bonded and state monitored. This driver WILL BE fired, and most likely will do jail time! Dropping off a child, even a high-schooler, at an address or location not approved of by the child's parents, constitutes gross child neglect.

Furthermore, this driver will no longer be able to work as a school-bus driver (or day-care worker) ever again, per Texas law.

Of course, assuming that the charges are filed and some lawyer doesn't sweep it under the carpet.

[Tivon]

I recall needing parent notes to get off at other stops and signed by a teacher or someone that works for the school.

That sounds ******ed, better fire that person just to keep the kids safe.

[wazman]

I recall needing parent notes to get off at other stops and signed by a teacher or someone that works for the school.

That sounds ******ed, better fire that person just to keep the kids safe.

I'll have to ask WazLady, since she does know a thing or two about being a bus driver (contrary to some peoples' beliefs ( :Yea right ) ), but I do know you have to go through a lot to even have someone else get your child off the bus (around here, anyway). If the school, the bus company, and the driver don't have clearance, the driver will happily drive right on by and not let your child off the bus until you personally give them direction on what to do.

[egarrard]

Same here. I've been dropping off and picking up my neice and nephew for the past 5 years. However, only their parents can pick them up at any other time.

(It must be my cane that makes them say no, hmmm? I must seem like some demented, old pervert... :lmao)

[Kindom934]

I'd say that the bus driver was in a somewhat lose lose situation here.

If he had not let the children go use the bathroom at somebody's house (another children house), the children would have peed in the pants and might rat how the bus driver "didn't let him use" the restroom (with nowdays lawsuits, this could be a possibity.). Then again, this really isn't the bus driver's fault for not letting the kid using the restroom, then again it's not the child fault as you can't control body functions.

The next one is to go out with the child to go "monitor" or keep tab of the child while he uses the bathroom, If he did that, he'll get screwed by all the other parents because he left the bus unattened.

I'm not saying that he did the right thing (he went and litterally left the child as he went around his route to come pick him up so thats a no no), but if you think about it, did he really have a much better choice? You could always drop the kids off so that one kid could use the bathroom at the school and make the rest (The onces that didn't get pick up yet) all late for school. Maybe if he had stop the bus and waited while the stranger's house child took that child to use their bathroom, his punishment wouldn't be too bad. Still yet, not sure what I would do if i was in his place.

I guess the best thing would have just not mention anything about using the bathroom and tell that child to wait until we get to school.

[egarrard]

That's a good question. I know I'm from waaaaayyy back in the dark ages, but they never let us off just to go to the bathroom. It was have an iron bladder or else. And a 2-hour ride on the band bus? You went before you left and again after you got there. There wasn't any stopping. :Nope

Have they changed that in these modern times?