The school district explained that the driver involved followed most of the end-of-route protocol, except for a crucial step that was missed.
, it has spent much of its time working on major issues with transportation: the school year started with a shortage of drivers, weather and road conditions became part of the reasoning behind multiple inclement weather days which kept kids from school beyond the amount allotted for this year, and now, the district is facing issues with its end-of-route protocol, which last week left a 6-year-old boy wandering the streets of Eagle River and its featured high traffic and snow berms.
“I noticed he started taking a long time to get from this neighborhood over here, which is not our neighborhood,” the boy’s dad, Darrel Maillelle, said, adding that he “almost broke down” when he was reunited with his son. “The driver got his end-of-the-route buzzer, walked the aisle to check the seats,” Holland said. “ found one child left on the bus, addressed that child, ‘What’s your name?’ etc., engaged with the child, asked the child the name of the bus stop. The child responded with a stop that is on the route, then that driver doubled back to that stop, asked the child if they know the way home from there, got an affirmative answer, and let the child off the bus.
The driver isn’t a new hire, Holland said, and the driver filed an incident report upon realizing what had happened.
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