Posted on 01/10/2007 4:55:55 PM PST by shrinkermd
The school bus driver let Rachel Armstrong's three kids board the bus Monday morning, but he warned them that he wouldn't give them a ride home that afternoon, nor could they ever ride his route again.
The problem: Armstrong's 10-year-old twin girls and 8-year-old son speak English. The driver told them the route had been designated for non-English speakers only.
Armstrong said Wednesday that she got a call from a worried daughter who didn't know how she was going to get home. "She thought they had done something wrong," she said.
So a furious Armstrong had to leave work early to pick up her stranded kids from Phalen Lake Elementary School.
School administrators apologized but didn't agree to let Armstrong's children keep riding the bus, as they'd been doing all year.
"It is our responsibility to ensure the safety of these kids and we made a mistake," said Dayna Kennedy, a spokeswoman for the district. "The kids should have gotten home that day."
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
Incredible, how about this, US busses are for those who speak, or are learning the national language.
I can understand having a bus route that specializes in Hispanic students. But to deny access if they speak English? Please tell me this is from another country.
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They'll bus in Hmong to the school, but these whities are outside the area....Nice.
Yep!
Actually, they're not white kids. Not that it matters. It was handled very badly by both the driver and the school district.
I often wonder what peoples' thought prcocess is when they say stupid crap like this.
The Number One home of white guilt!
We usually wonder if a buttmunch will get their panties in a wad.
So they'll pay to bus Hmong, but not non-Hmong to the same school, presumably from similar areas... Happier now?
Earlier story: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1765303/posts
I wasn't talking about YOU. I was talking about the driver and the school district.
Sorry if I wasn't clear.
Oops. I've had a grumpy day. Please accept my apology.
It happens FRiend. No harm, no foul......
Follow the money.
Ping.
This is from the new mooselimb congressman's state, no wonder. What makes me sick is that it is also where I tell people I am from.
Welcome to Bush's America...
Exactly, and that's exactly what the bus was.
From what I've read (in other places), the bus was only going to "language academies" that taught Hmong children to speak English. The kids got ON THE WRONG BUS and somebody didn't explain or understand it.
the School's explanation....
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