3 year old left on school bus--3 hours

[QueenBee]

How can any driver get off the bus and not check for kids? Especially when driving little ones. Apparently the kid called out to her as she was getting off and she never stopped. As of the other day, he still will not get back on the bus.


School district fires bus driver accused of leaving 3-year-old on bus



A Yates County school bus driver accused of leaving a child alone on a school bus has been fired from the Penn Yan Central School District.

District Superintendent Ann Orman today confirmed that Penn Yan’s Board of Education voted unanimously Wednesday night to fire the driver, Janet Lane, 55.

Lane, who worked for the district for about two years, was terminated immediately, Orman said.

Lane was charged with endangering the welfare of a child after she allegedly left a 3-year-old unattended on her bus last week.

According to Penn Yan police, Lane is accused of leaving a child on board her bus after an early dismissal day for elementary school and Head Start students.

She will answer the misdemeanor charge in Penn Yan Village Court.

Karen Wagar said her 3-year-old son, Kenny Wagar, is the child who was left behind.

The boy spent nearly three hours alone inside the bus, which was parked at the district’s bus facility.

Part of the Head Start program, Kenny was dismissed from school at 12:15 p.m. Friday and was supposed to be dropped off at a local church after-school program. When Wagar went to the program to pick her son up shortly after 3 p.m., she discovered he wasn’t there. She called the district bus garage and Kenny was quickly found, still strapped in a car seat.

Orman said the district is working closely with police. A full review of the district’s driver training procedures and policies is under way, she said.

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[Lady Cop]

this not only has happened repeatedly, but there has been an incident of a child DYING due to overheated school vehicle after being left by "accident".

[Lady Cop]

ABC
ROYAL PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Another local day care has been disciplined after a boy was forgotten in a van -- the same way a 2-year-old girl died a month earlier in Delray Beach.

It was on the Academy for Child Enrichment’s van that state investigators report the 4-year-old boy was left alone for 2½hours.

The Florida Department of Health report stated that the “mother arrived to pick up (the) child and … (he) was not inside (the) building … (so the) staff stated, ‘Let's look outside in the child care van.’”

They did so and the boy was found.

"The two violations that they have, one is that the child is left in the van,” Palm Beach County Health Department spokesman Tim O'Connor said.

O'Connor said the day care went on to make a second equally serious mistake.

"It's incumbent upon them to report it within 24 hours, so they also did not report this,” O’Connor said.

The pre-Kindergarten student was not harmed, but the Sept. 29 incident is especially troubling to some because it came just about six weeks after a death at Katie’s Kids Learning Center in Delray Beach. It was there Haile Brockington died after being left in a hot van.

Jorge Perez, the Academy for Child Enrichment’s president, said they had a procedure in place as a result of Katie's Kids that was covered with the staff two weeks prior to the incident. Perez said the process called for a walk-through of the van, both front and back, but that wasn't done.

"We messed up in that sense," he said.

Unlike in Brockington's death, the weather was a life saver that day. The boy was left alone on the coolest day of September. The high was 75 degrees.

"It's a checks and balance," O'Connor said. "You have a child's life in your hands and their well-being."

Perez said the employee responsible for making sure the child was brought inside and verifying the transportation log was fired.

[QueenBee]

I wish all districts had this..I have seen some buses here, with a dign in the back window..."Bus has been checked, no children on board." Kind of a shade thing the driver has to pull down after checking the bus at the end of the day.