Farrish has been a bus driver for seven years, and he described the students who get on his bus as ‘his kids.’
Larry Farrish Jr., a 35-year-old Kentucky bus driver, touched the heart of one of his first graders on Feb 9. The Engelhard Elementary School student was having a bad day at school because he had no pajamas for pajama day.
According to a Jefferson County Public School press release, when Farrish pulled up at one of the stops on his bus route, he saw 3rd grader Levi sitting on the curb and looking upset. He recalled to Today News, “Normally when I pull up, he’s standing there waiting for me with a big smile, but on this day, he was sitting on the ground with a jacket over his head.”
“I asked him, ‘Hey buddy, what’s going on? What’s wrong?’”
Farrish said Levi had “a face full of tears,” and the boy explained that he couldn’t participate in Pajama Day because he didn’t have any pajamas at home.
Farrish told the outlet, “I thought, ‘I gotta fix this. It hurt me so bad. That just wasn’t my Levi, and I wanted him to have a good day. No child should have to miss out on something as small as pajama day.”