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[video] Bus Driver Kicks Girl Out of Bus Miles Away from Home

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reply to Oleg
Glad the little kids OK

As far as the knucklehead bus driver, there is always a place for a guy like that with bad judgement skills

It is not about driving skills, it is about driver's attitude. As for the kid i am glad she is OK.

yeah i know, maybe the figure 8 will knock a little sense in him!

reply to Oleg
Just looking at the kid i I know there was more to the story. Not that it justifies the drivers actions, but I can't stand it when someone lies on camera.
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I agree.Her coached line "I have very good family that loves me" makes me think she must be a menacing little brat.
Bus driver is still wrong.
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I concur she looks like a little brat I know dont judge a book by a cover, but still

R3d

reply to Smatchimo

Sometimes stories take on their own life
Dianne Williamson
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When I heard about the evil school bus driver who ordered a child off the bus on busy Route 9 and left her stranded, the cynic in me scoffed.

“It didn’t happen,” I told a friend, as we watched the evening news

“What do you mean?”

“There’s another side. There always is.”

There is, and I’m feeling some sympathy for Donald P. Davison Jr. The 65-year-old veteran driver has been fired by AA Transportation in Shrewsbury, targeted as a potential criminal by police and excoriated by the lynch mob, a modern-day media creation of instant armchair critics who post anonymous and often bellicose comments on newspaper Web sites.

(I’m not claiming that every poster is an ill-mannered lout. But let’s just say that some of them make Al Bundy sound like Noel Coward).

When the story first broke, from here to CNN, we were told that Mr. Davison had been fired Nov. 5 after he ordered a misbehaving fourth-grader off a school bus on Route 9, more than a mile from her house. Had she not been rescued by a parent who drove her home, the 9-year-old would have had to walk to Route 20.

“I felt scared of him because he is a big guy,” little Cyrena Medbury, cradled in the warm embrace of her outraged mother, told WCVB, Channel 5.

Gradually, though, small but mitigating details have emerged. For starters, Cyrena wasn’t dumped on Route 9 �€” she actually exited the bus with other kids at an approved stop on Old Laxfield Road in Shrewsbury. And according to the driver’s version of events, he had no plans to leave her there.

Mr. Davison isn’t talking. But yesterday, Jim Pankonen, general manager of AA Transportation, said it was his understanding that the driver intended that Cyrena get off the bus temporarily, then get back on, as a disciplinary measure after she moved to a different seat without permission.

“The intent was, �€˜Let’s begin on a fresh footing, like this never happened,’ ” Mr. Pankonen said. He said other children were also getting off the bus and that Cyrena “disappeared.” The owner of AA Transportation has said that the girl refused to get back on the bus.

The driver radioed his manager “immediately” to report what had happened, Mr. Pankonen said, but the girl had been picked up by a parent by the time the driver and the school department’s transportation supervisor went looking for her.

“He was between a rock and a hard place,” Mr. Pankonen said of Mr. Davison, whom he described as a good, reliable employee and safe driver with no history of problems. “But in this particular case, the judgment he made was not the best, and unfortunately he’s paid for it with his job.”

Fair enough. Did the driver make a bad call? Absolutely. Did he deserve to be fired? Sure. But criminal charges? Come on. Unless he was driven temporarily insane by unruly children, it’s hard to believe that a veteran bus driver would endanger a child �€” and his job �€” in such a careless manner.

But on the heels of public outcry, Shrewsbury police announced Monday that it has filed an application for a criminal complaint against Mr. Davison, of reckless endangerment of a child. A magistrate in Westboro District Court will determine if there is probable cause to charge the former driver, who continues to be thrown under the bus by angry parents.

“What the hell kind of drugs was this guy on?” one reader asked on telegram.com, one of 158 comments posted after the first story. “If that was my kid I’d make sure he suffered in the worst way possible.”

Some readers defended Mr. Davison, bemoaned the manners of modern kids and dismissed the uproar as an overreaction by overprotective parents. One creative but idiotic reader even managed to blame the incident on “whiney liberals” and Barack Obama:

“This is what happens when you elect people like Obama. Now you get all these people sponging off everyone else, and they can’t take care of themselves.”

Er, OK. Back on Planet Earth, Mr. Pankonen described Mr. Davison as a “good, kind person” who doesn’t deserve to be dubbed the latest media monster.

“He’s caught up in something that has grown a life of its own,” Mr. Pankonen said. “It’s kind of scary.”

And it’s kind of unfair.

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Pretty much what I envisioned happening, except with that little brat screaming and crying hysterically.

I feel sorry for this person who is under attack by good for nothing parents who would do this rather than discipline their own child. If I told my mom I was kicked off the bus for "being bad" in any way, I'd have been grounded or worse.

It's people like these that make me fear our future generations.
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By all means marry. Get a good wife, and you'll become happy. Get a bad one, and you'll become a philosopher. -Socrates