I can't understand why another child on the bus would find it strange that kyron wasn't on the bus. I don't know this family of course, but if one of my kids didn't ride the bus one day or rode in the morning but not afternoon...none of the kids here would find it strange.
We had drama, after school for one child, so we picked him up. We had art club for another on a different day, so we picked her up. Why would a child find this strange if he didn't ride the bus.
I was going to say maybe he fell asleep on the bus, but nobody seeing him at the school that day and him being marked absent, eliminates that possibility. My daughter is 1 month almost exactly younger than Kyron, so this really hits close to home. I always give my kids a lecture when cases like this happen...
I keep trying in my mind, to vision Kyron, where could he have went, what would make him leave the school. I don't know about him, but my 7 yr old daughter, would never leave the school with anyone except a teacher(principal, office staff) or her dad or me. My kids go to school on a closed , guarded campus type thing (military family), but I still worry and talk to them constantly. My kids school is K-12, so I don't believe his school being K-8 had anything to do with his disappearance.