A mother is angry after her latchkey child showed up on her doorstep two hours too soon.

Linda and Penn Tanni's six-year-old daughter goes to an afterschool program until she is picked up at 6:00 in the evening.

This year however, she was sent home by bus, not once but twice, alone after school.

Linda Tanni returned home early from nursing school last Friday to cook for her family. She answered a knock at the door around 3:30 and saw her six-year-old daughter standing on the porch. Tanni asked her crying daughter why she was home.

"She said, 'I told my teacher I'm not supposed to get on the bus. And my teacher told me to get on the bus anyway." I told her "stop crying, you didn't do anything wrong." And she continued to say, "I knew I was going to be left on the street alone."

Last year the same thing happened. Tanni's daughter had to sit on the porch for almost two hours until her parents got home.

Pleasant Valley Elementary School Superintendent Allen Johnson says, "the big thing is we're dismissing latchkey students five minutes early...so the school can compare their notes with Rogy's to see who's present and who's sick."

Pleasant Valley's Latchkey program is run by Rogy's Childcare Center.