A 5-year-old girl was left alone on the side of Henri-Bourrassa Boulevard by the bus driver on Tuesday in Quebec.
The school says it’s not standard practice, but the carrier disagrees.
The incident happened at the end of the first full day of kindergarten for little Léa-Jade.
A woman reportedly found him and brought him to safety.
The child’s mother was supposed to pick up her daughter from daycare after school, but the child got on the bus by mistake.
He rides the school bus two nights a week, but not on Tuesdays.
The school has informed the parent on several occasions that the driver is obliged to put the child on the bus and take him to daycare after the trip if no adult is present. stop.
Geneviève Gariépy, the child’s mother, decided to remove Léa-Jade from the school bus and file a complaint.
“If I had known that there would be little chance of dropping my son at the bus stop if there was no one there, he would not have stepped on the school bus. This is sure and certain. You never know what’s going to happen, you could be stuck in a traffic jam,” he told TVA Nouvelles.
“When I got off the bus, there was no one at the bus stop,” the girl proudly explained.
The Premières-Seigneuries School Service Center responded that “the drivers do not have formal instructions to deliver each student. However, the CSS asks the carriers to raise the awareness of their drivers and pay attention to the habits of families to prevent such incidents.
