A former bus driver faces negligent child abuse charges in connection with an incident in November when elementary school students were let off a school bus at a Castle Rock intersection. Court records show that Irving Johnson, 81, faces three counts of negligent child abuse - no injury. Those charges are all misdemeanors. According to the district, Johnson, the since-fired driver, stopped in an area near the third stop on the route, which led to confusion. At that time, the remaining 40 students, all from Clear Sky Elementary School in Castle Rock, exited the bus near the corner of East Wolfensberger Road and Auburn Drive around 5 p.m. Nov. 18. The district said that under their protocols, Johnson should have notified transportation dispatch immediately when the students exited the bus but did not do so. Johnson told 9NEWS that his tablet with directions wasn't working and he was unfamiliar with the route. He admitted he could have done better and apologized when he spoke with 9NEWS in November. "Oh, I would just like to apologize. I am sorry. I wish I had done better," he said. "I should have stopped and shut the bus, and talked to the parents, and gotten in their heads to get the kids back on the bus who had gotten off. And I didn’t think to do that, and that was my fault, and that’s why I got terminated. That’s what they told me." Students said Johnson initially refused to leave the parking lot of the school until the kids stopped talking. “He finally left, and he was skipping all the kids' stops, and when I say all the kids, I mean all the kids,” said Caitlyn Zavadil, a 10-year-old student. “And we felt like when he was driving and missing our stops, like we were getting kidnapped.”