A dad who was fed up of children in his neighbourhood missing school due to a shortage of bus drivers decided to take as many as he could to class himself.
Sean Rogers Jr's daughter missed school on Friday, when her bus failed to show up, amid a state-wide issue in Ohio, in the USA.
He decided to use his family's limousine, and offered the service to children across Colombus.
On the first day he took 25 young people from home to class and back and by the second day that had reached 42 pupils.
The dad said he needed parents’ permission to take them to school but wanted to take action, rather than have the children left at home or out on the streets.
Dozens of parents, mostly from his Linden neighbourhood responded, local news ABC6 reported.
Mr Rogers said: “Everybody is so shocked like who is this guy pulling up in a limo and then they wonder who is in the back seat.
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“Everybody always wants to say let’s help the community, let’s stop this violence, that type of stuff, but I feel like a big step of stopping the violence is getting kids to school instead of letting them skip school and go out and get into trouble."
Not being able to make it to school has been heartbreaking for many students who look forward to class after missing so much last year during the pandemic.
“A little girl almost made me cry yesterday," Mr Rogers added.
"She cried because she missed, I think they said she missed almost a week of school just due to transportation, and she cried because she was so happy to go to school."
The bus shortage has been affecting students across central Ohio, ABC 6 reported.
Columbus City Schools superintendent Dr Talisa Dixon said that 15 to 20 percent of the district’s drivers were off sick almost every day last week.
