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School Bus Driver Kicks Kids Off

By Eddie Farah

This Jacksonville school bus driver had simply had enough. Several Ribault Middle School students were messing around on the bus, threatening to open the emergency door on the back of the bus.

A student, Kaylan Edem, admitted to Channel 4 that kids were disorderly and that students on the bus kept pulling the emergency handle. The bus driver threatened twice, then pulled over and told kids to exit the bus.

"The second when time they did it, she stopped right down there and said, 'Get off,'" Edem said. "I was pretty mad because I didn't feel like walking and she's supposed to take us to our correct stop, and it was inappropriate for her to just do that."

So Edem and a bunch of other kids were dropped at an elementary school two miles away. Students then had few options, walk back to their old school, call their parents, or try to walk home.

Edem’s mother was called by her daughter to pick her up. Lisa Jackson says,
“When we leave our children in the care of school officials, whether it’s a bus driver or a teacher, we expect for them to be safe, and at this day at this moment my student was not safe.”

First Student, the bus company, will have videotape onboard the bus to tell them what happened. The driver could have pulled over, called police, or taken the kids back to their school where parents would then have to deal with the problem.

Leaving them to find their own way home is unforgivable and against the rules of the Duval County School District. Fortunately no one was injured in this incident. The county just dodged a bullet. #

Originally posted at InjuryBoard by Eddie Farah

Full post as published by Jacksonville Personal Injury Lawyer on February 21, 2009 (boomark / email).