The school bus exists to make parents’ lives easier. For many people, pick-up and drop-off times conflict with work or other obligations; That’s when the bus comes in handy.

One family tried to take advantage of these benefits, but it turned out they were unfairly targeted by the school bus driver.

A concerned mother says the school bus driver repeatedly skipped her autistic son’s stop.

“My son is in eighth grade and has autism,” he said. He wrote in his Reddit post:. “To make the mornings easier, we decided to use the bus for the first time this year, and now we have a baby on board.”

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During should have made things easier for this familyThis only made it more difficult.

“So far the bus driver has only picked him up a few times. “He will skip his stop,” he continued. “I had to load the baby six times and leave him late for school.”

“I talked to the school about this to excuse his tardiness, and I use the bus’s GPS and the bus app to show him skipping his stop,” she said. “But he didn’t bring my son home yesterday.”

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According to his mother’s statement, the bus driver completely blew up her son’s bus stop.

“He was taking his usual route, but my son texted me to say he had bypassed our neighborhood,” she recounted. “When she notified (the bus driver), he told her he wasn’t coming back and that we had to pick him up ‘at school.”

The mother did everything she could to make sure the right people knew about the incident.

“I called the school and they spoke to the bus driver, who said he drove her to her stop and she refused to get off,” he said. “However, in practice it appears that he skipped his stop.”

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The mother also called the bus hotline to confirm that the bus driver was lying.

“That was yesterday,” he added. “He skipped the stop again this morning, so I called the bus hotline again and they finally arranged for him to finish his high school route and then come back. take him to school almost two hours late.”

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Commentators suggested this could be a case of discrimination.

Although this mother was baffled as to why this was happening to her son, Reddit users thought they had a pretty good idea of ​​what was going on.

“This seems so scary to me Bus driver discriminates against disabled child“This is not a good look for him, the bus company, or the school district,” one user said.

A second commenter added: “This isn’t something that happened once or twice, it’s a recurring problem that is interfering with your son’s education and worrying about possible discrimination.”

This woman’s son has the right to education.

As stated in the comments, the school bus driver is preventing this child from receiving an education. This right is protected whether he knows it or not.

US Department of Education says“The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is a law that provides a free and appropriate public education to eligible children with disabilities nationwide and provides special education and related services to those children.”

Because of IDEA, this school bus driver is technically breaking the law and could be punished for doing so. He must be informed of the seriousness of his actions.

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Mary-Faith Martinez is a writer with a BA in English and Journalism who covers news, psychology, lifestyle and human interest topics.