This is for all the parents of children riding our school buses.
When the bus driver tells a six-year-old child to get off the bus at a stop that is not hers, then leaves her there, with no parent or guardian, in the middle of winter, what happens? This is definitely child endangerment.
When the bus got to her stop, the parent asked the driver "where is my daughter?"
The answer was she never got on the bus. The other children on the bus piped up and said "yes she was, you made her get off back there."
The child was traumatized, crying and very scared. If not for another child there, she would have been totally alone. Eventually she was found and was safe, but think of all the things that could have happened, and there are all kinds of scenarios.
This is being dealt with and hopefully it doesn't happen to anyone else's child.
The people running our school buses need to deal with this and take appropriate action.
If they don't, then the school board needs to step in.
If they don't, then it's time for the MLA to start asking questions.
We as parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents need to make sure our children our safe.
This driver didn't do that.
Kelley Hodgins
Prince George
