Jamestown  (Valley News Live) – A Jamestown mother says her son with autism was hit on the head by his bus driver. She claims she didn’t hear about it until the end of the school day.

Now, she wants something done to change within the district.

She reached out to Valley News Live’s Whistleblower Hotline.

Washington Elementary School student, Kyler Smith says, he was hit on the back of the head, on the way to school one morning.

Amber Smith tells the T.V. station that her son  Kyler was riding the school bus to Washington Elementary.

She says two kids decided to change seats on the bus. But that’s when Smith says the driver mistook her son, who she claims wasn’t doing anything, for one of the kids changing seats.

Amber says “The bus driver smacked my son in the back of the head pretty hard,” says Jamestown Mother.

She says, she didn’t hear anything from the school, adding that  she found out about it through her daughter when her kids got home.

That prompted the school district and the bus company, Dietrich, to investigate. First, the driver was suspended. Then shortly after, the bus driver as they put it, was let go.

There’s  a new a bus driver now on his route.

She says school Superintendent  Robert Lech apologized to her and she’s grateful for that. But now she says if something like this ever happens again to her child, she wants to know.

An official with the Jamestown Police Department tells KVLY that  they investigated the incident and it’s now been passed over to the State’s Attorney office. They’ll review if any charges are necessary.