NYC special ed students left on school bus over 4 hours, probe finds

What BBN said about it

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorIt's 9:30 Eastern, this is The Pile-On: Late, and tonight a city investigation says six nonverbal special education students, aged six to eight, rode a Brooklyn school bus for over four hours last December.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThe bus was due before nine in the morning and showed up at about one twenty-five in the afternoon.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThe driver was lost and called nobody.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorAnd the matron, with nearly twenty years on the job, also called nobody. I'd describe that as a communication style that was very consistent.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorWell, the company says both employees are on leave and banned from its buses, so at least somebody finally followed up.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorFollowed up after ten months, Chip. At eleven forty-five a dispatcher told the school the driver was lost and would arrive in about fifteen minutes.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorFifteen minutes?

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorOff by an hour and a half. And the only live tracking came from parents, with AirTags in the backpacks.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorSo the parents became dispatch. They were tracking that bus while the actual system had no idea where it was.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe investigators' own word was egregious, and for once I can't find a nicer one.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSeal that fifteen minutes in a jar, label it maybe, and open it at one twenty-five Eastern. We're back same time tomorrow.