‘Panic, fear, anger’: Father says boy spent 1st day at wrong school after bus mishap

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – It’s a parent’s worst nightmare.

One Duval region pupil boarded the schoolhouse autobus connected the archetypal time of people Tuesday, but ne'er marque it to his close school. Instead, the 11-year-old lad ended up astatine a antithetic schoolhouse and attended the incorrect classes each day.

Kevin Munro, the begetter of this child, spoke to News4Jax successful hopes this ne'er happens to different child.

“I enactment him connected the bus, watched him get connected the bus, the autobus drove off, and I went to sleep,” Munro explained.

Munro works nights and watched his lad measurement connected the autobus astatine Naval Air Station Jacksonville.

The kid was expected to caput to Joseph Stilwell Military Academy of Leadership with a transportation astatine Riverside High School. It was there, things went wrong.

“He didn’t cognize what autobus to get on, helium was directed to get onto a bus, that autobus broke down, and the replacement autobus was sent and that replacement autobus didn’t cognize wherever to nonstop him,” Munro told News4Jax.

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The schoolhouse autobus helium boarded ended up astatine Eugene Butler Middle School and dropped him off.

“He arrived 2 hours precocious and arsenic soon arsenic helium walked successful they took down his sanction and thought helium was a caller pupil arriving. They gave him a docket and sent him connected his way. They didn’t cognize helium didn’t beryllium determination until the extremity of the time until it was clip for him to get connected a autobus and spell home, helium didn’t cognize what autobus to get connected and that’s erstwhile they looked successful the strategy and saw helium didn’t beryllium there.”

Meanwhile, Munro went backmost to furniture not reasoning thing was wrong.

“I woke up astatine 3 p.m. and got connected the schoolhouse app to spot what clip his autobus was going to get successful the day truthful I could prime him up and a small notification popped up successful the app saying that helium had 1 unexcused absence.”

Munro said helium was confused and worried.

“Panic, fear, anger, everything, each nightmare script was playing done my caput arsenic I americium sitting there. They started looking country by room, initiated an full schoolhouse lockdown. They got the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office involved, and helium was obscurity to beryllium recovered successful the school.”

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After speaking with the proscription institution and making respective calls, they were capable to find him.

News4JAX reached retired to Duval County Public Schools and was told by a spokesperson that some territory and schoolhouse leaders followed up with this household to apologize and supply enactment to assistance the pupil person a amended commencement to the schoolhouse year.

“While the territory did apologize, it did not supply immoderate details astir what, if anything, would beryllium changed to forestall this from happening to anyone else’s child,” Munro said.

The begetter and lad were reunited astatine 4:55 p.m. aft driving to Eugene Butler Middle School. Munro bought his lad a compartment telephone that night. The lad has not had immoderate issues since.

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