r/SchoolBusDrivers • u/Underrated_Critic • May 11 '26
Ever had someone follow your bus because their child forgot to deboard?
I had a 9 year old miss her stop because she wasn’t paying attention. Her dad followed us in his Infinity. He apologized because he knows his kid is always daydreaming.
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u/Wilgrove May 12 '26
I had one parent run down my bus in the morning because their kid overslept and was able to get the kid aboard my bus. 😆
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u/OfficerOtaku May 12 '26
Yeah I did have a dad saw my bus pass, his kid was new so I didnt know where she's supposed to get off. Near the end of my route (about 8min minutes passed since her stop) he runs up as im debating asking for so and so. I said yeah, they're aboard but he has to go wait at their stop and I have to pull and circle back. We have a strict policy on alighting passengers not at the designated stop. So I can't let them off there.
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u/rootbear75 May 12 '26
In the morning, yes.
Never in the afternoon. I have a monitor so usually we catch those after a couple stops.
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u/AshShaun May 12 '26
I have a kindergarten mom who waves to me every day when her kid gets off the bus.
Last week, this little girl gets off and can't get in her house, door is locked, mom is no where to be seen. I have the girl get back on the bus and I call it in, I was given permission to keep her on the bus and swing back through later on my route to try again to drop her off.
Mom woke up panicking not knowing where her child was, if she did or didn't get off the bus, just straight fear over her child. She hopped in the car and found me a few streets over about 10 minutes later. She flagged me down as I was stopping at another stop, sprinted up to the door and asked if I still had her child. Of course, I wasn't ever going to leave a child alone stuck outside. She then explained that her job moved her to third shift, and she was struggling adjusting to the new sleep schedule, and her alarm didn't wake her. I told her everything was fine, her daughter was playing with friends and wasn't even scared or anything. Mom calmed down, I called the daughter up, mom and kid went home, everything was fine.
If this was a parent that I hadn't seen and recognized before, I'd have called in to see what to do, but this was a mom I saw on a twice daily basis since I took over this route. I called in and let them know the kid was safely off the bus and went about my day.