BUDA, Texas (KXAN) – As students settle into the new school year, some Hays CISD parents are raising concerns about crowded school buses.
One parent, Holly Sewell, shared video with KXAN showing students on a bus Tuesday after school at Dahlstrom Middle School. Sewell said her 13-year-old son, Desmond, recorded the video.
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Sewell said she was concerned after seeing students sitting in the aisle and near the emergency exit.
“I was pretty shocked because that was a really dangerous situation for all of those kids to be in. They should never have taken off with the kids sitting in the aisles and my son was sitting directly against the emergency door in the back, and even in the video, his hand touches the red handle of the door and anything could have opened that door,” Sewell said…