School bus driver refused to drop my daughter home

Why are you so insistent on justifying him?!

I'm assuming he meant over his working hours not his tachograph hours. If he wouldn't drive the child to her designated drop off point, because his shift had ended, it seems highly unlikely that he was planning to wait until the mum arrived, because, errr, that was also after his shift ended.

Not "supposition", but very likely!

15 mins would not put him over his hours, with a child involved, yes, this is wrong, find out who was on that day regardless and report him.

You can on what he failed to do - ie deliver the OP's DD to her designated stop!

Those saying driver can only drive certain hours are veing ridiculous as traffic and delays would have been taken into consideration when allocating shifts. I think it's outrageous behaviour and you need to pursue this with the school and bus company

I haven't read anywhere what the actual contracted bus stop is.. hence the statement my fully qualifed bus driver partner made... but he did say the attitude of this driver left a whole lot to be desired and was unacceptable, at the very least report him for this

Where’s ‘the door’?

Like the poster you are respondng to, I suspect it is likely the contract is to the stop he dropped her at. For secondary schools it is very unusual for a school bus (private school or not) to collect from the door as part of the contract. It is normally as an obligement they go further.

Has the OP can come back with what the school or bus company said?

The driver, an adult being paid for a service, deviated from his normal, agreed route, then kicked his passengers off at a random stop. Is that ok?

I don't know whether the driver's actions were ok or not. That's why I've repeatedly said OP needs to have a proper conversation with the bus company.

All we know is that he didn't take OP's DD to her normal stop. There may or may not have been a good reason for this, which OP needs to find out.

I simply don't think people should be viified for things they may not have done. That's why we have an "innocent until proven guilty" system in the UK. An awful lot of posters have claimed a variation of "he dumped her on her own in the middle of nowhere". This is simply untrue. OP's DD was thankfully quite safe at all times. I totally agree that OP should follow up and work out if the correct procedure was followed. But there is no evidence the bus driver did anything he shouldn't have done.

Why are you so keen to make the driver's actions not ok? it's intriguing.

There was one teen where I live who was raped in the cemetery walking home from school.This is a well used route and the cemetery is manned during opening hours. Any teenage girl left somewhere to stand alone or left to walk alone is vulnerable. What if you were 30mins away? It would have been quicker for him to drive the route than wait for you to get there surely. . The driver just couldn’t be arsed to go the correct route. Were there others who were dropped off before their stops too?

Why are you trying to make the drivers actions ok? It’s intriguing.

RTFT. Or at least the OP’s posts. This has been covered. It’s to a bus stop. He failed to take her to her bus stop.

Exactly. OP got there in time. Her daughter was not abandoned on her own as so many people on this thread keep stating.
Absolutely no one knows what the driver would have done if she hadn't turned up in time. That is for the OP to ascertain with the bus company.
You can't vilify a person on the basis they "might have" done something.

Jesus Wept

Partner is a school bus driver.... it depends on the service provided.. is the route door to door ( as in home) or is the route usually to the bus stop and he's been driving to home as a courtesy?

He drives a school bus not a HGV he won’t go over hours driving children to and from
school

All these people who think it was okay for him to leave a young child at a completely different bus stop are morons.
He is a school bus driver not a friggin HGV driver. He won’t have been driving ALL day. Once he’s done his drops in the morning he then doesn’t drive until pick up time!!
let’s hope none of your children get on his bus and are dropped off in a random place all because he would have to drive for an extra 15 minutes

More likely 13 if we are getting specific

Most grown women I know would be stressed at being abandoned somewhere random in the dark and having to wait by the side of the road for some time.
At 13/14 I would have been terrified.

This doesn't mean he is absolved of safeguarding. You can't dump a child somewhere random and leave them there

Please complain to school, bus company and the council. He put her at risk. Partner has done london buses, national express and school bus driving. Yes national is limited to hours can do, but during this crazy weather you can put in a report to state the date and they will see it was crazy with weather. School bus drivers are not governed by these limits yes he might do taco driving elsewhere but they would of known this as track it and knew traffic was bad. So you really need to complain.. don't let it lie, parents pay alot for these services so the child should be dropped off where it states on route. If the road was closed then they would make changes clearly but due to traffic he is a pathetic man for treating a minor in such a way.

This isn't a standard school bus organised by a local authority or a bus company. It's a privately organised bus catering for one school. I doubt that it has the option to be fussy about its route.

"Lots of other children" is a red herring anyway. It doesn't help OP's daughter that she gets off somewhere she doesn't know with a group of other children who fairly obviously won't be hanging around to give her moral support because they will be carrying on with their journey home.

No, OP was fortunately able to arrive before he got there, so he can't be given credit for waiting for her. He told the child "he would drop her somewhere 15 minutes away and she would have to have someone pick her up" and he told OP that he couldn't take her child to the home stop because it would take too long. So presumably if it would take too long to drive her, it would also take too long to wait with her as he did not know even whether anyone was available to pick her up.

What has this got to do with OP's post? She paid for a bus which is her daughter's only means of getting home from school. It's nothing to do with the LA and nothing to do with what happens in your area.