Two D.C. schools employees were fired after a 4-year-old student with special needs was strapped into his bus seat in a bus terminal for six and a half hours Tuesday.

The child was in good health and not crying when he was discovered at the Southwest bus terminal at 2:05 p.m., six and a half hours after he had been picked up from his home. City employees failed to notice he hadn’t left the bus at his school, and the bus returned to the terminal at 8:52 a.m., leaving him strapped into his car seat and sitting in the terminal for more than five hours.