JCPS bus driver buys PJs for 1st grader who didn't have any on pajama day
A bus driver is being recognized for going above and beyond to help a student on his bus.
Larry Farrish says he noticed 6-year-old Levi Carrier, who is a first grader at Engelhard Elementary, was sad last Friday 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.
It was pajama day and Carrier was sad he didn't have pajamas to wear.
So, after Farrish dropped off the kids at school, he went to the store and bought him 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.
"That he is kind and that his heart is filled with joy," said Carrier.
Farrish says this small act goes to show the big difference bus drivers make in the life of kids.
"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.
The district is currently hiring bus drivers. You can apply by heading online.