It proves the point I have always maintained: you can’t PAY people to CARE. This employee was so self absorbed and bent on keeping her appointment that nothing and no one else mattered.

To find true justice, this bus driver should receive counseling and sensitivity training, at a minimum. I hope all parties involved will receive fair treatment in every aspect of their lives.

I am so grateful I have the kind of relationships with my sons’ caretakers, agencies, services coordinators and vendors where everyone understands the HUMANITY of special needs family members. I pray this can be so for ALL families.

May God bless all those involved with this serious matter.

-Connie Baum
http://motherconniesez.blogspot.com

In my humble opinion, both the driver and aide are responsible for this incident and could have prevented it from happening in the first place.

I am a production technician / robotic weld technician in the auto industry. Some of the machinery we work on has interchangeable tooling in order to make different parts out of the same machine. When doing these tool changes, we work in teams of 2, sometimes 3 ( to complete job faster ). Throughout and when finished, we communicate amongst eachother and verify eachother’s work, since the tool has to be installed correctly and securely ( some weigh up to 1/2 tonne ). If we didn’t do our jobs properly, equipment could be damaged and most importantly, someone could be seriously injured or killed. While we do work quickly, we take the necessary time to do it right, regardless of who else is waiting for a service call.

The bus driver and the aide should have been trained this way by the company and if they had been trained this way by the company and this incident happened ( which it unfortunately did ), there should be not only severe disciplinary actions taken by the company, but also criminal prosecution for both.

I am glad to know, that despite the frigid temperature, the student is on the mend.

To the driver and aide : Shame on you !!