Re: Bus driver threatened to cut off boy’s head, suit alle...

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Saying such a thing was bad enough, but actually taking out the axe! That goes beyond the pale.

In a message dated 8/24/2009 1:34:48 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, no_reply writes:

Bus driver threatened to cut off boy's head, suit allegesBy Tim Shufelt , The Ottawa CitizenAugust 22, 2009

[Guest guest]

What the bus driver did was wrong, but I doubt the mother's story of the child's

lasting trauma from it. If she had any understanding of her son's brand of AS,

she would not be letting her son ride the bus in the first place. Possibly

sending him to school in a cab would be better.

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" Saying such a thing was bad enough, but actually taking out the axe! That goes

beyond the pale. "

In a message dated 8/24/2009 1:34:48 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,

no_reply writes:

" Bus driver threatened to cut off boy's head, suit alleges "

[Guest guest]

wrote: " What the bus driver did was wrong, but I doubt the mother's

story of the child's lasting trauma from it. If she had any understanding of her

son's brand of AS, she would not be letting her son ride the bus in the first

place. Possibly sending him to school in a cab would be better. "

Here's the thing, . In Canada, the SCHOOL BOARD decides if a child is to

walk to school or be transported to school at the school board's expense.

If the child is to be transported to school at the school board's expense, the

SCHOOL BOARD decides if the child takes a regular school bus, a smaller bus for

children with special needs or a taxi.

If the parent disagrees with the school board's decision, that's just too bad.

It's the school board's money (allegedly) and they get to call all the shots.

If the parent does not have the financial wherewithall to pay for a taxi to

school and back every day the school is open and if the parent does not own a

vehicle himself or herself, the parent has no other option than to let the

school board direct how the child arrives at school and is returned home each

school day.

The article did not state what kind of bus the child was on at the time of

incident.

As for the mother's account of the lasting trauma, it is possible that the

school bus incident was just one of many incidents visited upon her child and

because it was so vivid (an axe was used to drive home a threat), it may have

been the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back sending the child into the

state in which he now finds himself.

Raven

[Guest guest]

" As for the mother's account of the lasting trauma, it is possible that the

school bus incident was just one of many incidents visited upon her child and

because it was so vivid (an axe was used to drive home a threat), it may have

been the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back sending the child into the

state in which he now finds himself. "

I agree with this statement. It is doubtful the driver's thought was to go for

the axe more than this one time because the child would have been used to the

threat and would not have taken the threat seriously. But the driver might have

THREATENED to use the axe prior to this.

Further, it is doubtful the driver went from nothing to this extreme threat.

Chances are the driver was making different threats on other days and got very

extreme on this particular day.

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