4 year old left on the bus

[Huskylover1]

Just heard about this on the news.

A 4 year old boy, gets the bus home from school. He misses his stop. Doesn't alert the driver. Driver gets back to the depot and parks up the bus and leaves. Bus driver has now been sacked for this.

In my book, a 4 year old, is way too young to get the bus home. Especially as there was no parent waiting at the bus stop even! Had there been, the parent would have alerted the bus driver that their son was on board, and needed to get off. Usually, this boy makes his own way home from the bus stop, lets himself in, and his parents arrive home from work, shortly thereafter.

Cue lots of moaning by the parents, that they've been let down. No mention from anyone, that perhaps this little boy shouldn't be making this journey alone.

I just can't fathom, how any parent can thinks it's good judgement to let a 4 year old:

• identify the right school bus to get on
• realise when he needs to get off
• walk from the bus stop to home, and let himself in

Bonkers!

Thread full of amazing parents, none of whom seem able to RTFT or any of the articles linked....

Sadly it no longer amazes me that people will embellish facts or make up bits to make a story worse. Nor does it surprise me that people will believe the first thing they read or misinterpret statements without doing their own research. Information and facts are so easily accessible with the internet but crap is still spread.

Maybe before scaremongering or plucking "facts" out of thin air, it would be worth doing some research.

faith I posted that earlier, the county of Fife sounds completely wrong, it’s definitely a kingdom

LipstickHandbagCoffee

That 4 in a block could be so many schemes, knightswood, shettleston, north lan

KNIGHTSWOOD?! Surely, Knightswood does not have schemes! The idea!!

Fife is a kingdom! Absolutely! It has for spade loads of Royal Burghs.

Scotland does not have mere counties.

And again. Grrrrr

Fife is a kingdom! Absolutely! It has spade loads of Royal Burghs.

Scotland does not have mere counties.

Love all the "kids shouldn't get the bus at 4" comments. I'm in Somerset and lots of village schools round here get the bus - school bus for kids only. This is from reception and parents are asked not to drive as parking is non existent. I can think of 3 schools in my area alone. Parents usually meet from the bus stop though.

KNIGHTSWOOD?! Surely, Knightswood does not have schemes! The idea!!

Knightswood has booootiful schemes, if you believe everything you see on Rightmove. Just like Carntyne. 😉

I’m acquainted with the nice and not-so-nice parts of Carntyne. Less so Knightswood. Although I may have walked through it once, on all ill-fated treck to reach The Campsies.

Yes,Knightswood is a scheme.know it well.

I may have walked through it once, on an ill-fated treck to reach The Campsies
This made me How ill-fated must that treck have been to end up in Knightswood?! Plus it made me realise that everyone in/near Glasgow probably has an ill-fated walking story. Mine was trying to treck along the canal to somewhere. I ended up in a field of rhubarb, gave up and came home

Pinkponies - I did see your post!

I was just so outraged that I had to post again 😂

This made me grin How ill-fated must that treck have been to end up in Knightswood?!

Very! This was the days before Google maps and all that jazz. Think I eventually gave up on reaching the Erskine bridge.

And then there was the time where I took a "short cut" through the mile long Clyde pedestrian tunnel on my tod without realising how very loooong it was.

Nightmarishly terrifying. 😱

Ooh! I've always wanted to walk through the pedestrian Clyde Tunnel but I only remember when I'm driving past it. You're brave!

WooWoo I lived in Springburn and once just kept walking to see where I ended up. I smelt cow shit remarkably quickly!

WooWoo I lived in Springburn and once just kept walking to see where I ended up

I took a gander up there earlier this year to look at a flat. Spectacular views.

Got thoroughly lost (sensing a theme here) and was wandering around with the brand new, sparkly iPhone 7 held aloft as I perused Google maps.

No-one even looked twice at me, so I surmised that the gangs of marauding neds I had been forewarned of, was perhaps a bit of an exaggeration.

Well, I know I'm not a wandering ned!

Butchy
I used to work in the hospital up there and did the same thing - taking a "shortcut" (according to Google maps ) through Springburn park waving my phone about. A large burly man did approach me and asked if I needed any help. Turned out he was a patient from the hospital who very kindly escorted me to the ward I was meant to be in!