INDEPENDENCE, Mo. -- She won't be able to drive for another nine years but parents of an Independence second grader say she's already had her first collision. Alannah Cheffen, 7, says she ran her school bus into another bus on school grounds. Independence Schools is responding Thursday on the collision that occurred Tuesday outside Three Trails Elementary. Independence police say they weren't notified. No one was hurt. Based on information gathered by FOX4, it appears the bus driver may have been trying to teach the kids what to do in an emergency. But one family says it nearly led to a real emergency. 1 dead, 1 injured in fire, apparent explosion at Excelsior Springs auto body shop Cheffen doesn't sound like the best candidate to drive a school bus. Quizzed about the functions of the gas and brake Wednesday, she had trouble. That's why her family wants to know why she was allowed at the controls of a school bus Tuesday. Three Trails Elementary parents of impacted students received an email Tuesday morning notifying them of "a minor incident involving your child's bus during drop-off this morning where one bus slowly rolled into another while on school grounds. Until she spoke with her daughters, Ambrosia Holt logically assumed a bus driver was driving. "I was blown away. It was actually my child that was instructed to be behind the wheel of a bus," Holt said. Holt says she's since been told by her daughters and a transportation supervisor the bus driver was giving the students training on what to do if she had a medical emergency, like how to open doors and windows. Thursday afternoon, Independence Public Schools released a statement to FOX4 and other media outlets, about what happened: “To clarify, the incident involved one bus rolling slowly, approximately six feet, into a parked bus while students were onboard. After reviewing the footage, we found that the bus driver had invited a student to sit in her seat as part of a demonstration of safety procedures, not to drive the bus. The engine was not running, and the student was not in control of the vehicle in any capacity that could be considered ‘driving.’” The district maintains, “Labeling this event as a "crash" is a gross mischaracterization of what actually occurred. A slow-moving bus rolling backwards at less than 1 mph into a parked vehicle, resulting in no injuries or damage, does not meet the severity of a crash. No police were notified because this was a minor incident. Moreover, the safety demonstration conducted by the driver, while well-intentioned, will be reviewed to ensure such an incident does not happen again.” In its statement the district claims, “FOX4's characterization of the student as unqualified to drive a bus is not only irrelevant but contributes to an unnecessary level of fear and misunderstanding among parents and the community.” The statement wraps up, “The Independence School District remains committed to student safety, and we are taking steps to ensure this type of situation does not occur again. However, it is important that the facts are presented fairly and that minor incidents are not exaggerated to create unnecessary concern among families.” According to the girls when no one volunteered, the second grader was called to the front of the bus for hands on experience in the driver's seat. "She told me to press that thing and when I pressed it it made the whole bus go backwards. Then I pressed the gas button and it stopped out of nowhere," Cheffen said. "When it happened and we hit the back of the bus she just didn't say nothing and she went back and she just parked it like nothing was happening," Cheffen's sister, Amiyah Brown, 10, said. Police say they weren't notified of the collision, parents in the school pick up line Wednesday didn't seem to know about it either, or the hands on training. "It's not something I would be comfortable with my kid being on a bus and being either expected to either help into the driver side or being on a bus with another kid who is driving," parent Sheila Harrison said. "If I didn't know that they have our children doing this I'm pretty sure there's other parents that do no know because this could have resulted into something super big," Cheffen's mother said. Download the FOX4 News app on iPhone and Android Cheffen says the biggest lesson she learned from her training is she never plans to drive a school bus again.