by TomL
School bus driver resigns after being accused of Child Abuse. I am sure it is very humiliating and embarrassing for the school bus driver of 30 years to be charged with such a crime and of course the media got them another headline and plays it up.
As I understand what happened, the child has the problem. The day this incident happens a school teacher / (employee) struggled to escort the student from the containment unit to the bus. The law states all students must be seat belted in. This is a bus for challenged students. The student would not let the aide seatbelt him in. The student punched the aide in the face and struck her in the head with the buckle of the seat belt. The bus driver went to assist the aide, they struggled with him for a few seconds and the bus driver was charged with child abuse.
This child should not be in the school system if he is violent. He was certainly out of control that day. I ask, how much abuse does a school bus driver and their aide have to take before the school system will acknowledge there is a problem and support them.
As I understand it, the mother complained to the school and the Marion County School System charged the driver with child abuse. If I was that driver and aide I would find a good attorney and teach the school board how to stand behind the drivers. I hear there is a shortage of drivers all over the country. I wonder why! They get things thrown from the back of the bus at them and many drivers have been hit with things that do damage and the child is off the bus for a couple of days and then comes back to act the same way. This is not new. It has been going on for years in Marion County. The system pushes them aside and hires another. The school bus driver also should get an apology from the daily newspaper for getting the story wrong and ruining her career.
