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Special Kids Sexually Assaulted Buses - Politics, Business, Civil, History - Posted: 29th Feb, 2008 - 9:09pm
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School officials still aren't saying what they will do to stop it
Special Needs Kids Sexually Assaulted In Buses
Shame, shame, shame! This is something GOING ON people, not an isolated case. Why are the officials so quiet on the matter and why is it so hard to put monitors in school buses!
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| All they want is a safe ride to school, but Metro's special education students have become targets. And school officials still aren't saying what they'll do to stop sexual assaults on special-ed buses. But a lot of school systems are doing what Metro does only after some children have been molested. Police say the two latest sexual assaults could have been prevented if Metro had put monitors on the buses. That's what two other young autistic victims, Jenna and Gilbert, got -- after they were violated. Gilbert's mom says she had begged for a monitor on his school bus. She finally got it after a troubled 19-year-old special ed student forced her autistic 9-year-old to perform oral sex on the way home from school. "Why did Jenna's innocence, Gilbert's innocence have to be sacrificed to get a monitor?" asks Kimberly Lopez-Ruiz. "Why did they have to be abused to be protected?" It's a question that school board chair Marsha Warden didn't want to answer when NewsChannel 5 chief investigative reporter Phil Williams caught up with her at Tuesday's school board meeting. "Can you tell me one thing you've done to protect students," Williams asked. She wouldn't say. But in Williamson County, special-ed teachers say the answer to protecting students is simple. "We have assistants on every one of our special education buses," says special education coordinator Carol Hendlmyer. Williams asks, "Would you dream of not having them?" "I don't think that would be a good thing," she answers. And a survey of surrounding counties reveals most school systems have monitors on every special-ed bus to help with the students' special needs, instead of counting on the drivers to do it all. "The driver is driving the bus. They have to watch the traffic and the roads," Hendlmyer says. In fact, a federal civil rights investigation of Metro's special-education program eight years ago noted that "bus drivers stated that having aides on the buses would assist them in keeping order on the buses; however, District officials have not responded to their request for aides." (Read the 2000 report from U.S. Dept. of Education.) |
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I believe the whole school board and the superintendent need to be fired. They have a responsibility just as every school in the states to provide a safe environment for kids to learn in. The bus is an extension of the school. If they need to get monitors on the bus then do it. I know my kids schools have video cameras in all the buses and the special needs buses have a extra person helping kids get on or off plus assisting the driver to keep order on the bus trip to and back from school. The school district in this article clearly is not doing that. They need people in there that will have the interest and the safety of the children in mind when they decide to add or deny any services to the school.
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Whats up with the bus driver cant they hear or see nothing? Those buses are usualy lots smaller than the regular ones so its not like he was all the way in the front and they were 30 feet in the back.
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So what if you put a monitor, it doesnt mean the kids wont get abused. someone needs to be on the bus watching for real not after the fact.
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