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A lot of talking has been “stirring” these last several days concerning a situation that happened on a Magee School Bus. Errors were made…judgments questioned… below is the quote Megan Cowan Booth (mother of Mason and Braydon) posted on Face Book. (I am re posting with her permission)
“So I’m sure a lot of u may heard but y’all know I never complain about Magee schools but this is too much. So yesterday I get a phone call from Mason and Braydon telling me to come get them, that the bus driver had left them on the side of the road, but didn’t know where they were. 1st off she was on her phone the whole time in the video we watched.. I understand that the kids have an assigned seat. Mason came to the front of the bus to sit with Braydon because he was crying not wanting to sit by hisself so Mason took him to the middle of the bus to sit with him, which he should have never done. The bus driver then decides to stop the bus and tell mason to bring his brother back up front that the little kids can’t go to the back. So Mason sits there without getting up, when he should have gotten up and went back to the front. So the bus driver opens the doors and told them to get their ASS off. Then tried covering her butt by sending other kids off the bus to tell mason and Braydon to get back on, only to say they refused to get back on. Leaving them on the side the road.my child couldn’t even tell me where he was so I could pick them up had no idea what backroad he was on. Her punishment is 5 days suspension without pay and probation for the rest of the year. Nope not enough. No way she should be working for the school district after leaving a 6yr old and a 13 year old on the side of the road”
According to Principal Pete Howell his decision for 5-day suspension without pay and probation for the remainder of the year for the driver was following procedures in past cases. Mr. Howell must follow procedures in place…if additional action is taken in the case of the bus driver, the punishment will come from the Simpson County Office.
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