Nov 6, 2008 9:30 am US/Central
Mom: School Girl, 9, Dumped For Angering Driver
SHREWSBURY, Mass. (CBS) ―
A bus driver in Massachusetts was fired for allegedly dropping off a fourth grader on a random road when she tried to move seats without asking, reports CBS station WBZ-TV in Boston.
The 9-year-old's mother, Melissa Doyle, said the bus driver got upset when her daughter tried to move closer to the front of the bus.
When he reached an apartment complex on Route 9, Doyle said the driver threw her daughter off the bus and drove away. Doyle said her daughter could not remember her home number, so she walked to a nearby ice cream shop that she knew was on Route 9.
One of the other students on the bus who saw the incident told her father what happened. They both jumped in the car and began looking for Doyle's daughter. The two finally found her and brought the little girl home.
The mother did not know the father or the student that picked her daughter up, but she told the Worcester Telegram and Gazette that her daughter accepted the ride because she recognized the girl inside the car from the bus.
Doyle said she is upset because it could have been anyone who picked her daughter up from the ice cream store.
Doyle called the school and told them what the bus driver allegedly did. A short time later, the bus driver was fired. "It is the worst possible judgment that any bus driver can make," Shrewsbury School Superintendent Anthony Bent told the paper. "It's almost beyond words, that he would drop her off there. That bus driver will never drive children in Shrewsbury again."
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