A bus driver is being recognized for going above and beyond to help a student on his bus. Larry Farrish saw 6-year-old Levi Carrier, who is a first grader at Engelhard Elementary, was sad last when he got on the bus.
"I asked him, I was like, 'What's going on, what happened?' I am thinking something may have happened at the bus stop and he simply looked up and said he didn't have pajamas," said Farrish. Apparently it was Pajama Day at school, but Levi didn't have any PJs to wear. After dropping the students off that morning, Farrish stopped at a local Family Dollar and bought some.
He came back to the school to drop them off.
"I said this morning you were crying and I felt it," he told Levi. "So I want your day to be a little bit better and I asked him, I said, 'Would you try the pajamas on when you get to class and have a great day,'" he said. "He hugged them and said, 'I have pajamas.'" Carrier said his sad tears turned into happy tears and he wants people to know how great his bus driver is.
Farrish says "A lot of times, we're the first person after their parents leave that they see, and we're the last person they see before they go home, so we can make a big difference in a child's life just by saying good morning," he said.
Levi in his new pajamas!