D.C. Boy Left on School Bus for 5 Hours

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From: Ken M.
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 06:57

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Boy Left on School Bus for 5 Hours 
D.C. Fires Driver, Attendant Who Missed Special-Ed Student 

By Justin Blum and Perry Bacon Jr.
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, June 16, 2001; Page B01 

A 10-year-old special education student suffered dehydration yesterday
after spending about five hours alone on a District school bus because
the driver and an attendant failed to notice that he was still inside 
after the other children were dropped off, school officials and police
said.

The student, Ronald Stevenson, was treated at Children's Hospital and
released. School officials last night fired the driver, Mawiyah Green, 
and the attendant, Donald Dailey. Green did not return a message last 
night and Dailey could not be located for comment.

The other children on the bus were dropped off at Moten Elementary 
School in Southeast just before 8 a.m. Neither Green nor Dailey 
realized that Ronald, also a student at Moten, was still asleep in the
vehicle, school officials said. The driver took the bus to a lot on 
New York Avenue NE, where the boy was found just before 2 p.m., 
according to police.

"It was terrible, inconsiderate and I don't think they care," said 
Ronald's mother, Latrice Wright, of Northwest Washington. "He could 
have died."

Alfred Winder, the executive director of transportation for the D.C.
schools, faulted the two employees for failing to check the bus for
sleeping children at the end of the route, as school system policy
requires. Officials said the two employees told them they had done a
walk-through.
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