For the Search that Bus poetry contest by Miranda Hawley

What to Submit? The sad news is that every year there are children left alone on a bus.  This should not even be a thing ever, or anywhere, but here we are.  In the state of Indiana between the years of 2009 and 2018 a total of 221 students have been left on the bus unattended.  2018 was the worst year with 32 times a child in Indiana has been left alone on a bus.  

Now that you have the bad news my contest will address this sad fact.  Imagine you are a dispatcher and you are instucting your bus drivers, bus monitors and support staff to make sure they do a complete job SEARCHING their bus for any student so they don't make the big mistake of leaving a child unattended on their bus.  After all sometimes children crawl under the seats or perhaps lay down on the floor of the bus.