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I support the bus driver. Just because you're blind doesn't give you a pass card to physically assault others. Little guy could have easily put an eye out.
I think the pool noodle was a very rational step. If your cane is the only means you can see by, I highly suggest you don't use it as a Spartan club of death.
I support the bus driver. Just because you're blind doesn't give you a pass card to physically assault others. Little guy could have easily put an eye out.
I think the pool noodle was a very rational step. If your cane is the only means you can see by, I highly suggest you don't use it as a Spartan club of death.
I agree with you 100% and the bus driver should be commended for doing the right and rational thing.
The mom is the culprit when she stupidly attempted to play the victimhood game and the reporter stupidly went along as an ally.
I support the bus driver. Just because you're blind doesn't give you a pass card to physically assault others. Little guy could have easily put an eye out.
I think the pool noodle was a very rational step. If your cane is the only means you can see by, I highly suggest you don't use it as a Spartan club of death.
I agree. And now we know the rest of the story.
The boy struck another kid with his cane. Had the driver not taken away the cane afterwards, and had the other kid been seriously injured, the bus driver would be in hot water for that.
So, you all support taking away the cane and not giving it back? Doesn't make sense to me.
I could see taking the cane and giving it back when the kid got off the bus and was in an environment where someone else who was not busy driving could control him; and then telling his parents that he will not be welcome back to the school until he changes his behavior. But to take it and then say go ahead and wander around the building with a pool noodle and good luck to you is not just cruel, but also dangerous - inviting a lawsuit.
I would hope there would be more to the story that said after getting off the bus, he was told to sit in the "nurses office" until his parents arrived, but it does not read that way. Hopefully more information will be released.
So many things about this story I am confused about. First, why did the bus driver have a noodle on the bus to begin with? Second, why was it the school's responsibility to supply the kid with a cane? Third, why did the blind kid hit another kid to begin with? Was there an altercation and he was defending himself? Was it an accident? After all, he is blind.
If he hit another child, then punishment is definitely called for. Taking away his cane is NOT appropriate punishment. If a child in a wheelchair rolled over another child's toes, would they take away his wheelchair and give him a moving dolly?
A pool noodle is not the same as a cane. He's lucky he didn't wind up tumbling down a flight of stairs.
I agree the cane be taken away but should have been given back once off the bus. If h hit another student, then take it away for whatever time is deemed punishment. WTH is a pool noodles? Never heard of that. What is its purpose? Why is the cane property of the school? Why doesn't this kid have a personal cane? Very strange story.
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