<body><div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=4Goqzz_0vjoVKi400" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=4Goqzz_0vjoVKi400" width="1320" height="743" >WARSAW, Ill. (KHQA) — A Warsaw Elementary School Student was left unattended on a school bus for nearly two and a half hours on Monday, September 16.At around 7:40 a.m. that Monday morning four-year-old Amelia Tibbits was picked up by the Warsaw school bus, but didn't get off at school. It wasn't discovered until after 10:00 a.m. that she was still on the bus and was immediately brought inside to the school nurse's office where she was eventually deemed fine.According to details shared with KHQA by Amelia's father Mike Tibbits, the driver believed he walked to the back of the presumed empty bus to check once parking it at the bus lot at 8:10 a.m. Bus camera footage has been turned over by the school in an attempt to learn more details about the situation. Neither the school nor the Sheriff's Office has been able to view the footage so far. KHQA is working to obtain a copy of the footage once it becomes available.Parents were never alerted that Amelia was missing as the absent call scheduled for 9:30 a.m. did not make it to them.At 10:20 a.m. a nearby Industrial Arts teacher heard Amelia honking the horn on the bus and helped get her inside. However, when a different school bus came to presumably drop Amelia off at home at 10:45 a.m. the family was still not aware. This led to immediate phone calls with the school before they learned of her finding at 10:50 a.m.The family then went and picked her up from the school.The Warsaw School District Superintendent shared a statement with KHQA on the incident:“On Monday, September 16th, we discovered that a student was left unattended on a bus. We immediately took action in making sure that the child was seen by a medical professional, communicated with the parents, and began working with state officials and law enforcement to investigate the incident. We have kept the student's parents apprised of the investigation to the extent that we have any information to share. As a district, we are separately reviewing our policies and procedures to ensure an incident like this never happens again. Our top priority is, and always has been, student safety. Thank you.”The school district is currently allowing the Sheriff's Office and the Department of Children and Family Services to handle the situation further.KHQA will continue to share more details on the story as it unfolds.</div></body>

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Four-year-old left unattended on Warsaw school bus for over two hours

WARSAW, Ill. (KHQA) — A Warsaw Elementary School Student was left unattended on a school bus for nearly two and a half hours on Monday, September 16. At around 7:40 a.m. that Monday morning four-year-old Amelia Tibbits was picked up by the Warsaw school bus, but didn't get off at school. It wasn't discovered until after 10:00 a.m. that she was still on the bus and was immediately brought inside to the school nurse's office where she was eventually deemed fine.