Forgotten kindergartener wakes up in bus parked outside driver's home six hours after drop off

The grandma of a Kansas kindergartener is demanding answers aft a regular schoolhouse time turned into a harrowing ordeal for her grandson, who was near connected a schoolhouse autobus for respective hours erstwhile they fell dormant connected their mode to school.

Five-year-old Lane Meitl ended up successful the driveway of the driver's ain location aft completing the morning's schoolhouse dropoff.

The operator had parked the conveyance wholly unaware determination was inactive a young rider dormant connected the seats of her bus.

Lane woke up hours aboriginal to find himself stranded and locked wrong the autobus successful the tiny metropolis of Hoxie, location to astir 1,000 people.

Lane's grandma was successful disbelief. 

'How could that happen?' Leta Meitl said to KWCH. 'You number 3 getting disconnected the bus. You number 3 getting connected the bus. It's not rocket science.' 

The Hoxie School District acted swiftly and confirmed the pistillate autobus operator is nary longer employed with the territory since the October 28 incident. 

'We learned that a pupil had been near connected a schoolhouse autobus for a information of the schoolhouse day. Thankfully, the pupil was not harmed, and we are continuing to enactment the family,' the territory said successful a statement. 

Despite the district's assurance that Lane was unharmed, Leta couldn't halt imagining her grandson's disorder and fear. 

'I cried. I conscionable kept wondering what was going connected successful his small mind,' she said.

Over the past fewer weeks the grandma has been looking for answers arsenic to however the incidental occurred. 

Thankfully, upwind conditions successful Kansas were neither excessively acold nor excessively blistery and the small lad was good but his household shudders to deliberation of what mightiness person happened nether harsher upwind conditions. 

Leta said she hopes that drivers volition present marque it a wont of checking their buses astatine the extremity of their shifts, earlier walking out. 

'It takes little than 10 seconds to locomotion to the backmost and backmost to the beforehand of the bus,' she said.  

Despite the scare, Lane's mother, Taylor, expressed gratitude for the district's response. 

'Hoxie has been precise benignant to america astir this and continuing to enactment us. We bash emotion Hoxie and are precise grateful for the schoolhouse district,' she wrote online.