reporter: far from it. bethany. d.j. the handsome lad, that is lewis. reporter: how many kids do you have? i would say 200. reporter: may be even more. no, they are not biologically my kids, but emotionally, they surely are. reporter: that is how attached he is to the students who rode his school bus. a job he held for 27 years, even though it wasn t exactly his first choice. reid sort of fell into the job. well, not sort of. he did fall into the job. in 1990, he fell off a roof working as a handyman. after that, he wanted a job closer to the ground vehicle but ironically, he says no john has ever lifted him higher butt. being in a position where you can love kids every single day is a lovely position to be in. he just made everybody feel safe and loved and cared for, do everything he possibly could to