We experienced something similar with my 5 yo dd yesterday. She is taking a different bus than normal this week. She is supposed to take the 'Apple' bus. We have told her this & every day she gets a bus pass for the bus driver on the ride home. Something got mixed up with her bus pass yesterday, & she had the pass for getting to school, which is a different bus than the one coming home.
At 2:50 I get a call from the school that I missed. They left a Voice mail saying - "Zachary (who is NOT my child, I have a little girl named Logan!) did not have a proper bus pass, he needs a proper multi part buss pass to take a different bus, I have included some in his back pack".
OK - So I call my husband, who is meeting her at the bus stop, yes, he did put a multipart bus pass in her back pack. I call the school to let them know they must have called the wrong parent.
They tell me that no, Logan did not have a bus pass - but that's OK Mrs. W, We put Logan on the Panda Bus. MY HEART SANK.
I said - she is supposed to be on the Apple bus. Where does the Panda bus go??? She had no idea. I tell her to hang up & call the bus driver & let him know she is on the wrong bus. I look it up on the web & the Panda bus route is no where near our house.
Thankfully, she was able to radio the bus driver & locate my dd, who was still on the bus. He had the bus pass with the correct address on it, you would think the guy would know it was not part of his route!!!
I did talk to dd & explain that she cannot ride just any bus.
The little boy in the story should definately be spoken too, but I don't agree he should be punished. Someone needs to explain to him why he was in danger. He may have no idea.
