Parents are accusing the Clover Park school district of trying to cover up a traumatic bus ride that occurred Wednesday, September 28th. Parents claim this isn’t the first incident with this school bus driver. A student named Sofia Lindenfield spoke with KIRO7 and said another student suffered a seizure and the bus driver didn’t do enough to help.
“I was screaming at the bus driver to like pull over because she was having a seizure then he started yelling at me because I was in the aisle way,” Sofie said. She said she was attempting to help the student but the bus driver threatened to write her up.
“We told him to put her on her side and he refused to let me put her on her side as she was sitting there having a seizure on her back,” she declared.
“Within 23 seconds of students notifying the driver that a student was in distress, the driver pulled over to the side of the road,” the Clover Park School District said. Yet, Sofie expressed to the news outlet that wasn’t the truth.
“No it was four minutes until the driver pulled over to the side of the road as there was a bunch of other kids screaming at him telling him that she was having a seizure and he didn’t care,” she said. The district went on to say in their statement that, “He walked to the back of the bus to check on the student and radioed for assistance. The situation caused some students to become upset. The bus driver directed students to sit in their seats and be quiet so that he could address the situation.”
“That never, that never, no—he didn’t even do that, no he screamed at us and he didn’t ask us to sit in our seats he told us to be quiet or he’s going to write us up over sitting there trying to tell him to move her over to her side so she didn’t choke on her own tongue,” Sofie said.
The district’s statement continues to read, “In addition to 911 being called, the school’s assistant principal, nurse, and nurse assistant as well as a transportation supervisor were dispatched to the scene and arrived within 10 minutes of the request for help.” Sofie said that isn’t factual either.
RELATED: School Bus Driver Caught On Video Assaulting Student Who Spit On Him
“The request for help happened like 10 minutes after the seizure happened and they showed up like five seconds after Lakes called Thomas about it,” she said.
Now, Sofie’s mom, Kellie Jodot Leslie, and plenty of other parents are requesting the driver be removed.
“We want to see him gone. We understand that there’s a shortage and stuff like that for bus drivers but at the end of the day our kids come first,” Kellie said.
#Socialites how are we feeling about this?
The post Parents Demand Answers After Child Has A Seizure On School Bus appeared first on Hollywood Unlocked .