10-1-14 lomira school officials change procedures after child misses the bus

A Brownsville woman says like any mother she feared the worst when her son didn’t get on the bus after school.   Marjorie Cobb tells WFDL news her four year old son Aiden is in the 4-K program in Theresa and was supposed to transfer to another bus in Lomira for the ride home Monday.  He never got on the bus.   Cobb says Aiden was supposed to meet up with his older siblings for the bus ride home…but on this day became confused apparently because there was a substitute bus driver.    “He did not recognize the bus driver and the bus driver did not recognize him and apparently told him he had to go find his bus and so he  (Aiden) was confused and started to go looking for his bus.  The buses drove off and so he thought he had to walk home,”  Cobb said.   Cobb says when her 13 year old son called to say Aiden wasn’t on the bus…she immediately got into her car and drove to Lomira.   “I walked through the door approached the principal and said what is being done, where is my child?  They said they don’t know they were looking for him they were radioing the other bus drivers seeing if they could find him.”  Cobb says she told school officials to call police.  Cobb says 45 minutes to an hour seemed like an eternity not knowing where her child was.  She says a woman spotted her son on the sidewalk…several blocks from the school and called police.  So what was Aiden’s reaction when he saw his mom?  “He was very relieved and was crying and screaming and said mom I was screaming for you did you hear me?”   Lomira School District superintendent Bob Lloyd says it was “an unfortunate situation” and says procedures have been put in place to prevent this from happening again.