An 11 year-old is telling his story, after being left on a hot school bus for hours.

His mother is demanding answers while D.C. public schools admit the bus driver made a big mistake.

Kaseem Brown was supposed to be dropped off at the High Road Academy on Kansas Avenue, but ended up at the D.C. Public Schools bus lot two hours later.

"I guess they didn't know I was still on," said Brown.

The boy had fallen asleep on his way to summer school Wednesday morning. He was one of just four students on the bus. But somehow the driver -- and the attendant -- failed to notice when he didn't get off and continued on to the bus lot, where they left the bus and Kaseem behind.

"I woke up, because I was hot and I was sweating. And they locked all the doors and stuff," said Brown.

He said after pounding on the windows, he found the latch that opened the door, then found a man on the lot, who helped get him back to school.

Shortly after 11 a.m. his grandmother -- who happened to be at the school for a meeting -- saw her boy.

He was having trouble breathing. He has asthma. He didn't have his Ibuterol with him, he was sweating," said Evelyn Sykes, Kaseem's grandmother.

She took him to Children's Hospital, where a doctor said he'd had a panic attack. Then she took her questions to the District.

They should have checked to see if my son was on the bus. And how can they let off three children right here at this building, and with four children on the bus, they let three off and left him sitting there," said Sykes.

A District spokesperson admits it should not have happened. He says three people have been disciplined. The driver, the attendant on the bus and the attendant at the bus yard, who also should have checked the bus.

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