WIVB<\/a> that her grandson, Josiah, fell asleep on the bus Tuesday morning on his way to Public School 82 in Buffalo. He was still sleeping on the bus when it was taken to the bus terminal parking lot, and left alone there for hours, she said.<\/p>\nJosiah\u2019s grandmother said he was located by a First Student bus terminal worker around 12:30 p.m. He sitting in the driver\u2019s seat, banging on the windows to get an employee\u2019s attention<\/p>\n
Griffin said the boy was put on a different bus and brought to his school. She only found out about the incident from a manager at the bus terminal when he arrived safely at PS 82 around 1 p.m., but said she was never contacted by anyone at the school.<\/p>\n
Griffin said she called the principal, who apologized but ultimately laid the blame on First Student. Her grandson hasn\u2019t returned to school since the incident out of fear. <\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t feel like he\u2019s safe with them,\u201d Griffin said. \u201cHe keeps asking if they are going to leave him on the bus again… That\u2019s kind of heartbreaking to deal with every morning to hear him asking me that.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to WIVB, First Student placed the bus driver and bus aide from Josiah\u2019s bus on paid leave as the school bus company conducts an \u201cinternal review of the incident.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is completely unacceptable that a BPS student was left on a First Student yellow bus,\u201d a Buffalo Public Schools spokesperson said in a statement. \u201cDistrict officials met with First Student on the same day of the incident to voice the district\u2019s concerns and disapproval and to help make sure this doesn\u2019t happen again. Both the bus driver and bus aide involved in this unacceptable incident ignored multiple procedures in place to prevent this from happening. The school contacted the adult listed as the student\u2019s contact.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 7-year-old child with autism was left on a school bus in Upstate New York for hours, according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[25373,13497,25374,67,13361,2711,9,11,10,49,51,50,16631,25375,2577,23948,1986,3058,25376,10174,142,25377,25378],"class_list":["post-125104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-25373","tag-bus","tag-c0036994","tag-education","tag-flashing","tag-light","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-nobody","tag-one-object","tag-outdoors","tag-public-transportation","tag-safety","tag-school-bus","tag-schoolbus","tag-sign","tag-transit","tag-transportation-industry","tag-tssi011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}