SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) -- On Thursday, Dec. 12, the San Diego Police Department found a 5-year-old boy stuck in the busy intersection of S. Woodman and Altaview Drive alone. The boy's dad, Adrian Mora, says the holidays might have looked different. “It’d be a whole different holiday," he said. "We wouldn’t be doing anything really if something bad happened to him.” Mora says he got a call from SDPD, saying they had his son, 5-year-old Alex Mora. “I thought the worst, so it was pretty scary to get that phone call and not have much context,” the dad said. The San Diego City Schools Police Department report says someone called in after watching the boy cross the busy intersection when it wasn't his turn. Mora says his son attends Zamorano Elementary School and was supposed to be in the PrimeTime Extended Day Program. Mora says while on the way to pick their son up from police, his wife called the program asking about their son's whereabouts. “When we called, they said, ‘yea, he’s here. We’ll go get him,’ and then they hung up. I’m guessing they realized he wasn’t there, and then we called again. They’re like, ‘we actually don’t have him,’” Mora said, remembering the call. The police report says there was "some confusion" because Alex said he was getting picked up from school early, but PrimeTime never confirmed that. Mora told FOX 5/KUSI PrimeTime's policy is parents must send a written confirmation if they plan to pick up their kids early. That didn't happen in this case. Instead, they let the boy go back to class to pick up a gift he left behind. Alex's teacher thought he was headed back to the program, but PrimeTime thought he was staying in the classroom. That's when Alex left. “When we picked him up, he was covered in dirt. He was saying it was his fault, and it was just kind of like heartbreaking to see that,” Mora said. Mora says his son was missing for an hour after school let out before police found him alone on the street. “The only thing I could do is reassure him that it wasn’t his fault," he said. "He did everything right. He survived National City for an hour by himself at 5 years old.” In a statement, a spokesperson for the San Diego Unified School District, said "Student safety is of the utmost importance to the San Diego Unified School District. Poor judgement by an employee of our contracted after school provider resulted in the child leaving the site unsupervised. We have spoken with the contractor and employee, reinforced our expectations about student safety and enacted corrective measures to prevent a similar incident in the future. It’s important for San Diego Unified families to know we’ve met with the student's parents to receive feedback and apologize, and that we are committed to keeping all students safe on our school campuses. ” Mora and his wife met with PrimeTime and the San Diego Unified School District who say the staff will walk children out of the program to ensure they get reunited with their parents. “I just hope they take this serious. This could have been way worse,” Mora said. FOX 5/KUSI reached out to PrimeTime for comment on the situation but did not hear back.