Diabetic 6-year-old sells pumpkins to buy alert dog after he wasn't allowed to take school bus
Ian Unger was asked to stop taking the school bus because his type 1 diabetes requires constant supervision which the school was not able to provide
Ian Unger, a six-year-old boy, was excited to start the new school year as a first grader in Sand Lake, Michigan when he heard from school officials that he would have to stop taking the school bus because of his type 1 diabetes. 38-year-old Katrina Christensen, his mother, said that the school was not going to provide him with an aide to ride in the bus and monitor his blood sugar.
She told PEOPLE: "[The district doesn’t] feel like it’s safe for him to ride the bus without [another adult] on it. So, they were gonna pick him up on an empty school bus at 8:45 a.m. — school starts at 8:30 a.m. He just wants to be like everybody else … to put him on an empty bus is unfair."