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Her son is now too anxious to take the bus, she said.
A student looks out the window of a school bus on the first day of school in Boston Public Schools. Tanner Pearson for the Boston Globe
What was supposed to be the end of an exciting school day turned into a nightmare when a Boston mother reportedly waited hours for her first-grader to get home on the bus.
Ronda Johnson told CBS News Boston that her first-grader, Justice, was eager to ride the bus home for the first time earlier this week. He was scheduled to be home at 3:30 p.m.
Johnson told the station she waited 30 minutes, then an hour, and then she started to worry and fear about what had happened to her youngest son. The new bus tracking app wasn’t working.
The mother began calling the school, then the bus dispatch center. Eventually, staff found her son after searching the bus yard, and he was brought home after 7 p.m.
“I run onto the bus and I run down the aisle looking for my son. He’s passed out on the seat with a puddle of drool,” Johnson told CBS News Boston. “My baby was on that bus for about four hours.”
Johnson said the driver apologized but did not explain how the crash happened.
“The safety of our students on the yellow school buses is our top priority, and we will work with our contractor to find out what happened and ensure any appropriate follow-up action is taken,” a Boston Public Schools spokesperson sent a statement to Boston.com.
After the harrowing experience, Johnson told CBS News Boston that her son was now too anxious to ride the bus.
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