A five-year-old Broad River Elementary School student was dropped off at the wrong bus-stop Monday afternoon, left wandering alone. A good-willed man took the frightened boy to the Shadow Moss housing office where his parents later picked him up. His mother, Lequann Cueves, said she waited at his regular bus-stop on Mink Point Blvd. and was shocked when he didn't walk off the bus.
"I said, 'Where's my son?' And [the bus driver] is looking. She's calling his name. She couldn't tell me anything and went on about her routes."
Jackie Rosswurm, with the Beaufort County School District says it's a "sad situation" and apologized Tuesday. She said changes are already in place with the dismissal system.
"They've met with the teachers, administrators, spoken with the bus drivers, everyone who is involved with dismissal, so that this should not happen to this young child or any child again," Rosswurm said.
Meanwhile, Cueves said she'll continue questioning the teachers, district and bus drivers until she figures out exactly what went wrong. She said she filled out all the paperwork and took extra precautions, like marking her son's bookbag with his bus number, to make sure such an event never happened.
The wrong person could have picked him up. I mean, he could have gotten hit by a car, the list goes on and on... this should not have happened and it can't happen again," she said.
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