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Updated: 1:44 PM Mar 23, 2009
School Officials Quiet After Middle School Bus Incident
Kanawha County Superintendent Ron Duerring will not discuss the disciplinary action taken against the John Adams Middle School teachers who allegedly left three students alone at a Braxton County rest stop.
Posted: 12:05 PM Mar 23, 2009Reporter: Will Jones Email Address: will.jones@wsaz.com |
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- Kanawha County Superintendent Ron Duerring will not discuss the disciplinary action taken against the John Adams Middle School teachers who allegedly left three students alone at a Braxton County rest stop. Duerring calls it a "personnel matter."
Pete Thaw, a member of the Kanawha County School Board, tells WSAZ.com that he's heard there was action taken against the teachers, but the school board has not been informed on how the superintendent handled it.
Thaw also says he doesn't know why the superintendent will not release the information. He says he believes the public deserves to know.
Last month, three John Adam Middle School students were left at a rest stop in Braxton County when two of them became sick on the way to Washington, D.C.
Their parents were notified to pick them up at the rest stop, but instead of waiting for the parents to get there, the teachers went ahead with their travel plans.
The two sick children and another student were left alone for nearly 15-minutes until their parents could pick them up.
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Posted by: Mom
on Mar 27, 2009 at 06:43 PM
I am sad to see us attacking each other. Different children, different ages, different parenting styles . . . I don't agree with everything I've read, but I will try to respect your right to raise your own children. But the State REQUIRES us to turn our children over to the county (unless you're homeschooling), and the county has failed to take basic safety precautions in caring for children. What can we, as citizens, do to demand that this matter be resolved? If we all still feel this strongly about what happened, how can we pursue this? Are the parents considering legal action? Maybe we need to look at the board meeting schedule and all agree to show up at some future meeting, just to indicate the level of concern. KCS is staying quiet, but it is not necessarily due to "personnel" matter. They can announce change in admin at JA without ever saying why. They are quiet in hope it will go away. If you care, you have to help make sure it doesn't go away. Hold them accountable.
Posted by: To Mon
on Mar 25, 2009 at 11:13 PM
If you are any kind of mother at all. Then you most certainly should not allow your child to " roam around by her self and those back halls at the mall are very scary. As parents we can't be to safe when it comes to our children" YOU would have to be an idiot and allow your child to roam those so-called scary halls and dress and undress there! PLEASE!, don't try to use the term parent when describing yourself. YOU are nothing more than a person trying to do the "COOL"thing and let your child roam unatteded in a building that YOU yourself know to be unsafe! Try to safeguard your child for a change! and quit trying to be "THE COOL MOM"!
Posted by: Mom
on Mar 25, 2009 at 10:43 PM
If the school system does not take definitive action, they should be held accountable, too. Children visiting movies or malls without adults does not compare to children being driven miles from home, then put off the bus, without transportation, at a rest area. Its worse when you realize that 2 of the children were ill. Some have commented about the responsible adult at the rest area. I would respectfully suggest that, while the attendants may be kind and responsible, that they are not babysitters. Why do we bother with background checks for teachers if the teachers can then turn our children over to a stranger? The principal was the "ranking educator" on the trip, so bears the bulk of the burden. However, the superintendent is responsible for addressing the behavior, and the Board for assuring that this is done. If they all drop the ball, they are all responsible. CPS needs to be involved in this situation. KCS is lucky that we can respond in anger, and not grief, to this.
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