No child left behind (aboard the school bus)

It's a school superintendent's nightmare: A 3-year-old girl riding a school bus fails to get off at her stop and spends more than two hours locked in the bus barn.

Area superintendents say they rely on training, drivers' familiarity with their passengers and other practices to prevent that from happening in their districts. When they buy new buses, they purchase them with automatic alarms that require drivers to walk the length of the bus before they can shut it down.

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