Posted on 10/11/2012 6:46:49 AM PDT by massmike
A bus driver told a 12 year-old student that he should have been aborted because his family had a Romney-Ryan sign in their yard.
The child attends a Catholic school in New Berlin. He rides a Durham school bus. The company also provides service to the New Berlin public school district.
Apparently, the Romney-Ryan yard sign bugs the bus driver and she’s been harassing the boy, making rude comments to him related to politics.
When the driver engaged the 12-year-old boy in a political conservation, he responded by saying that Obama is pro-abortion.
The bus driver allegedly said to the child, “Maybe your mom should have chosen abortion for you.”
Understandably, this really upset the boy. Other kids on the bus verified the boy’s account and are providing written statements.
The mom made her son’s school aware of the situation. She also went to Durham School Service in New Berlin and spoke to Michael Bennett, the manager.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
“Complete birth abortion”?
tolerance...
Lemme guess....one of Holder’s People?
Add another to the unemployed rolls, fire this jerk!
What a pig! I pray that he gets fired.
It’s okay... the UNION will save this creeps’ job.
At least the transportation company did the right thing and fired her ass.
Let’s see whose rights prevail. The boy’s, or the militant feminazi bully who intimidated and offended the boy.
Apparently this person didn’t spend much time in the institutions she is transporting these children to and from.
Update at bottom of article, “bus driver was fired”.
Story update said driver WAS fired.
http://content.clearchannel.com/cc-common/mlib/3627/10/3627_1349899227.pdf
That's a statement from the school district. The relevant part:
Mean old feminazi.
78 year old bus driver — ?
UPDATE: The bus driver was fired after the report on Mark’s show.
Apparently she’s been darkening children’s lives for 78 years.
There is no fool like an old fool.
Well, since you can’t match wits with a 12 year old, and all you can do in life is drive a bus, maybe your ‘mom’ should have done the same with you.....................
She, and she did.
>>Mark Belling discussed this story on his radio program yesterday. It’s another tale of a Leftist behaving badly.
The Leftist, a 78-year-old woman, a New Berlin school bus driver, has been harassing a student on her bus route because there’s a Mitt Romney yard sign at his home.
(snip)
>>UPDATE: The bus driver was fired after the report on Mark’s show.
Why do we we hear so many cases about harassment of kids by the left, but never by the right?
This is the second one in as many weeks -- the other one being the girl that was harassed by her geometry teacher for wearing a Romney/Ryan T-shirt. The teacher apologized, BTW -- before the entire school.
Is it because the ones perpetrated by the right aren't reported? Or because it just isn't reported here on FR?
Or is it because they simply don't happen?
I'm not asking a rhetorical question. I'm truly curious -- have you ever heard of someone on the right harassing a kid over their political views?
they initially said she would still drive,just for a different, public school they have contracts with. local talk show host Mark Belling, a regular Rush fill-in, was the guy that broke the story and put pressure on by getting the story out and allowing other parents and such to get involved. at first thecompany stonewalled
I’m gonna play Devil’s Advocate here....remember we all recently saw just how nasty a bunch of kids on a school bus can be in the case of of that elderly woman who was working as a bus monitor. This is a case of a 78 year old woman who is still working. I salute her for that (though it does make me a little nervous that she’s driving a school bus at that age.)
If she was really harassing this kid then I’m glad she got fired. But I’d like to know a little more about just how much “crap” she has put up with from these kids on a daily basis. Maybe she was just giving back as good as she got.
Let’s not pretend kids are necessarily a bunch of little angels.
Whatever happened to editors.
FIRE THE BUS DRIVER
Oh, so funny... Was looking for more info.
Src > There’s a job opening for a bus driver for Durham svcs in New Berlin, WI at www.indeed.com (etc).
The description says only one in five applicants is qualified... Oh noes!
Kids can be cruel. But, she is an adult.
There's no excuse for an adult, especially in that position, to say something like that to a child, under any circumstances.
If she had said something like that to my child in my presence, I would have told her that she had better hope her last paycheck was a large one.
If she had said something like that in my wife's presence, she would have had lost her dentures on the floor of the bus.
Well, it did regard conservative values...
Good
:: Maybe your mom should have chosen abortion for you. ::
That -right there- is a DEATH THREAT. The parent of each child on that bus should be filing a restraining order on the driver.
after the report on Mark’s show.
5 day suspension, gather the evidence then publically fire her @$$
The bus driver should have been immediately terminated, but in today's world, it will probably promoted.
You make a good point, but if my parents had caught a 12 year old me mouthing off to any adult under any circumstances I wouldn’t have sat down for a month. (And for the record, I’m pretty thankful that they never had a clue as to half the stuff that went on on my school bus.)(Or at least, I don’t think they had a clue, as I get older and rethink it, I realize they knew a lot more than I thought they did at the time.)
So the driver Maybe gets fired your wife gets arrested for battery, your child learns that violence is the best first course of action and you possibly loose your house and life savings in a law suit.
Yeah I think we can call that plan "B". These parents handled it correctly.
I really love the way that the anonymous Internet invites people to posture.
Whoa. This lady told the kid she wished he was dead (in so many words). She should be fired. It sounds to me like the kid was having a debate with her. He may be a pain in the butt, but a 12 year old kids willing to discuss politics (and abortion politics at that) are rarely troublemakers.
Also, if the kid was a troublemaker to the level of being wished dead, there should be plenty of documentation of that behavior and you can be sure she would've brought it up in her defense.
Who writes this stuff???
FMCDH(BITS)
Do you seriously think that a jury would convict my wife of assault or award damages to the driver under those circumstances?
Maybe in your part of the country, but not in mine.
My thought exactly! I can’t think of any story about a conservative adult picking on a kid. And I can’t believe the media would bury such a gem.
I can only assume such events are few and far between.
I guess if you don’t have the facts to debate an informed adult you’re reduced to picking on kids.
Romney has been too, for the last forty years. But this driver deserved to be fired and evidently that happened.
Wow, They killed him? Normally, your employment would be terminated but apparently, this bus company doesn't fool around when it comes to customer satisfaction.
At least as described, I didn't see any indication that the kid was "mouthing off" to the driver. According the the story, she initiated the harassment, and the child's response was that Obama was pro-abortion.
Was there more than that? Probably. But again, the driver was supposed to be the adult in this encounter.
I’ll add one other point, if I had gone to my parents complaining that the bus driver said something mean to me, I know exactly what their response would have been....”What did you say to her first?”
Let’s add this guy to the current rolls of the unemployed.
Yup, I would have asked the same question, and I would have been asked the same question.
But, there's NOTHING that would rationalize what the driver said to that child.
Since you brought up the bus driver that was harassed earlier, I'll point out that she didn't lash back at the children, and when people were calling for the kids to be suspended or expelled, she asked for forgiveness.
Then, SHE was the adult.
I love a story with a happy ending.
You're so sentimental, Laz. :)
Sounds like that's what happened here, doesn't it? Kid: "Hey Ma, the bus driver told me you should've chosen to abort me." Mom: "Oh Yeah? Why'd she say that?" Kid: "Because I told her Obama was in favor of abortion."
I don't disagree with you and having coached CYO basketball for many years, I've seen some mouthy, even out of control kids and their apologist parents. But I will maintain that any 12 year old kid willing to discuss political issues (especiallyl abortion) is not a troublemaker - he may well be a pain in the ass, but that's an entirely different thing.
It was so happy, I’m in tears.
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