Minneapolis, MN
Minneapolis mother says school bus mix up left 6-year-old girl missing for hours
Minneapolis mom says faculty bus combine up left 6-year-old lady lacking for hours
A Minneapolis mom says a mistake by the varsity district left her younger daughter with particular wants lacking for hours on Monday.
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – A Minneapolis mom says a mixture up with the varsity bus left her younger daughter with particular wants lacking for hours on Monday.
Celestine Clayton’s six-year-old daughter is barely partially verbal. As particular wants first grader at Folwell Faculty in south Minneapolis, when the bus drops her at their house at Lake and Hiawatha, the rule is a father or mother or guardian should be there. Celestine says on Monday she was there however the faculty bus wasn’t.
“I went downstairs,” stated Clayton. “I waited from 3:05 till 3:17. The bus is meant to be there at 3:11.”
She known as the varsity and was advised the precise reverse.
“So then he advised them he could be again in ten minutes,” she stated. “Thirty minutes handed and he nonetheless hadn’t got here again.”
Utilizing notifications on her telephone, from the “Right here Comes the Bus” app, Clayton went off to search out the bus, solely to find, she says, her daughter was really on a distinct bus. Finally, she was taken to the transportation hub, which is protocol.
In an announcement, the district stated: “We’re conscious of a state of affairs the place a father or mother is stating her little one was by no means dropped off at residence yesterday. We’ve investigated, and our GPS data present the bus arrived on the little one’s home twice, however every time, nobody was there to obtain the coed.”
Clayton insists she was there and she or he desires this discovered for her and her daughter.
“She’s afraid to go to high school as a result of she stated the person on the bus simply stored driving and I wished to go residence,” Clayton defined.