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6 yr old made to get off bus and left on street by driver

 abuse

Wake Forest, N.C. — A Wake Forest mother says that, instead of taking her second-grader to school, a school bus driver told the boy to leave the bus and left him on the side of the road – alone.

At the intersection of Clarincarde Court and Penfold Lane, Lisa McGlohon said she watched son Brady climb on his school bus. Since she thought everything was OK, McGlohon left the bus stop to go about her day.

However, Brady never made it to North Forest Pines Elementary School.

McGlohon said even though the bus delivers children to Brady's school, the bus her son got on Wednesday, July 16, was not his assigned bus. Instead of taking Brady to school anyway, McGlohon said the driver dropped him back off on the corner – all by himself.

"He is 6 years old and he shouldn't be left alone at any given time,” she added.

Brady was frightened and crying, but he was also smart. When he realized he was alone, he went door to door at neighbors' homes asking for help.

A neighbor got Brady safely to school. His mother is still concerned and wants to make sure this doesn't happen to another child.

"I really just don't feel that he should be driving a bus,” McGlohon said of the bus driver.

Wake County school officials told WRAL the driver is no longer driving a bus and that there is a personnel inquiry into the incident.

In the meantime, Brady is riding the car to school.

"Sad, really sad,” Brady said of his ordeal.

School officials agree the incident happened as McGlohon described it. They also said no other buses were scheduled to come by after Brady was dropped off.

• Reporter: Adam Owens

How does a bus driver justify making a child, a 6 yr old child, get back off of a bus once they are on, just because it is not their assigned bus?  This bus was going to the same school, the bus drove past that particular bus sto.  What would it have hurt the bus driver to take the child safely to school and then to have worked out the issue from there?  I just don't understand how an adult, one that is entrusted with the safety of children, could do this.  Even if the bus was not going to the same school as the child attended, the driver upon seeing the parent was no longer at the stop, should have taken the child to either the school where the bus was going and let the administration figure it out from there.  What if the child had not known to go to someone's house?  What if no one had been home?  What if a child molester, murderer, etc had been watching that stop and picked him up?  This story made my skin crawl. 

The bus stop for our neighborhood (elementary, middle school, and high school) is on the corner by my house and since I am home pretty much every day, I am known as a "safe house".  Every neighborhood needs one in the event of idiots like this driver.