Posted on 05/10/2010 9:27:56 PM PDT by naturalman1975
A four-year-old Tasmanian girl was left distraught when she was thrown off a bus and told to walk by herself to school.
Tiarnah Fahey of Gagebrook was thrown off a Metro bus at 8.24am yesterday because her free school bus pass or Greencard didn't work, The Mercury reports.
Her family says the female bus driver told the prep student that she had to walk to school up a hill and across busy double lanes of the East Derwent Highway until she could get her Greencard working.
Her quick-thinking sister Chloe, 13, jumped off the bus to save Tiarnah from being abandoned alone to walk to school. The bus then drove off, leaving the girl in tears.
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Tiarnah finally arrived at Herdsmans Cove Primary with the help of Chloe, who then had to walk for another hour to Bridgewater High.
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If that were my kid, I would not rest until that driver had lost her job. And she would then consider herself lucky that I hadn’t choked her.
Looks like the Aussies have consolidated school and public bus systems. Which sounds like it makes sense until something like this happens.
The driver should be arrested for child endangerment.
There’s a mixture - lots of kids travel to school on regular buses (or trains or trams), others on buses hired as charters from the regular bus companies, some on buses belonging to their schools.
Different policies in different places on different community needs.
I just thank God her older sister was there.
What a good sister :)
Dittos to that!
Wow. She could be Drew Barrymore’s twin when she was a kid (”ET”)!
What kind of soulless POS could abandon and endanger that precious child? If that were my little girl someone would get hurt....
They were probably safer crossing the freeway than on a public school bus.
I raised my 4 boys alone. In order to be with them as much as possible, and because school bus driving paid better than ‘women's’ jobs - I drove bus. (this gave me the same hours and vacations as my boys.)
I cannot conceive of such an action. And anyone who shows such an abysmal lack of judgment does not belong in ANY job that involves children - EVER.
Of course, when I was four, school wasn't for two more years, unless one opted to go to kindergarten.
If that were my child, I’d kidnap the driver, blindfold her, drive her to a remote mountain valley and kick that bus driver to the road. Find your way home!
that crazy bitch needs to be fired and then whipped
This is what socialism brings. Their bus and school systems should be privatized.
Very cute little kids.
How on earth could this bus driver be so heartless?
I am 60 years old and lived in NY NY for 3 years growing up. We used city buses and a bus pass in the early 1960's without a problem. This is not the vault of the system but of an damn fool driver.
State run schools damage children, families, and freedom.
/johnny
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