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PostPosted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 3:09 pm    Post subject: Busdriver check this out... Reply with quote

Am I soft? I mean chit happens. No harm, no foul, right? Filing charges... wha? I guess people can't make a mistake anymore. What do you think Buscrasher?

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Sleeping first grader left on school bus
Tuesday, January 05, 2010
By Jim McKinnon, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A school bus driver has been suspended after she parked her bus at the depot yesterday with a sleeping first-grade student on board.

The driver, Pat Kinnear, returned to her bus just after the boy woke up and another driver was trying to assist him, said Pittsburgh Schools spokeswoman Ebony Pugh.

Mrs. Kinnear then drove the boy to class at Linden School in Point Breeze.

He was unharmed. He had been trying to open the doors of the bus when the other driver noticed him and Mrs. Kinnear arrived back at the scene, Ms. Pugh said.

The boy's parents also were notified of the mishap.

Mrs. Kinnear, a driver for 10 years, is the wife of Terry Kinnear, terminal manager and an executive for Roenigk Bus Co. in Etna.

Mrs. Kinnear, reached by telephone this morning, said she believes reports of the incident have made it sound worse than need be. She said, however, she could not discuss details of the incident, pending a review by her employer.

"I feel terrible at this point. It happened. It's unfortunate it happened, but it didn't happen the way everybody suddenly has it. I'm like a basket case over it," she said.

For the past four years, she has driven the Linden School route, and she is familiar with the boy's family, having driven his older brother last year, she said.

"I talked to his mother yesterday. I called and apologized."

Mrs. Kinnear said the boy, who boarded the bus in Stanton Heights, was returned to school within 15 minutes after the bus had been parked.

Ms. Pugh said the school district today is filing a charge of child endangerment against Mrs. Kinnear.

No arrest had been made this afternoon.

Mrs. Kinnear said earlier that her employer today would decide on her job status.

It is the second time since October that a sleeping student has been left on a parked Roenigk school bus. The earlier case involved a bus that had taken students to Fulton Elementary School in Highland Park.

The driver in that case parked at his home with the sleeping student still onboard, leading to criminal charges and firing by the bus company.

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 6:10 pm    Post subject: Re: Busdriver check this out... Reply with quote

dick wrote:
Am I soft? I mean chit happens. No harm, no foul, right? Filing charges... wha? I guess people can't make a mistake anymore. What do you think Buscrasher?

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Sleeping first grader left on school bus
Tuesday, January 05, 2010
By Jim McKinnon, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A school bus driver has been suspended after she parked her bus at the depot yesterday with a sleeping first-grade student on board.

The driver, Pat Kinnear, returned to her bus just after the boy woke up and another driver was trying to assist him, said Pittsburgh Schools spokeswoman Ebony Pugh.

Mrs. Kinnear then drove the boy to class at Linden School in Point Breeze.

He was unharmed. He had been trying to open the doors of the bus when the other driver noticed him and Mrs. Kinnear arrived back at the scene, Ms. Pugh said.

The boy's parents also were notified of the mishap.

Mrs. Kinnear, a driver for 10 years, is the wife of Terry Kinnear, terminal manager and an executive for Roenigk Bus Co. in Etna.

Mrs. Kinnear, reached by telephone this morning, said she believes reports of the incident have made it sound worse than need be. She said, however, she could not discuss details of the incident, pending a review by her employer.

"I feel terrible at this point. It happened. It's unfortunate it happened, but it didn't happen the way everybody suddenly has it. I'm like a basket case over it," she said.

For the past four years, she has driven the Linden School route, and she is familiar with the boy's family, having driven his older brother last year, she said.

"I talked to his mother yesterday. I called and apologized."

Mrs. Kinnear said the boy, who boarded the bus in Stanton Heights, was returned to school within 15 minutes after the bus had been parked.

Ms. Pugh said the school district today is filing a charge of child endangerment against Mrs. Kinnear.

No arrest had been made this afternoon.

Mrs. Kinnear said earlier that her employer today would decide on her job status.

It is the second time since October that a sleeping student has been left on a parked Roenigk school bus. The earlier case involved a bus that had taken students to Fulton Elementary School in Highland Park.

The driver in that case parked at his home with the sleeping student still onboard, leading to criminal charges and firing by the bus company.


Yes, you are a "softie' and me too, but if you read the above paragraph, After that, I believe the rule was the driver must walk through the bus before leaving it . Clearly she did not. End of case as far as the school is concerned or the sentence
in redwould not be there.


Chit happens, alright, just sometimes not not the way we would want it to.




When my son was 5, he and a 5 year old girl who were both in morning class kindergarten, was dropped off in Lone Pine when they were supposed to be dropped off in Zollarsville,where they live, about ten miles away.



The girl's grandfather got a call from the Lone Pine Market, that they were there, as both moms were at the bus stop still waiting,. That was about 30 scary minutes, but nothing was done about it.
Lucky the little girl remembered her number and grandpa was home.
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