| Nov 3, 2006 @ 2:50 PM |
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Tenacity1
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Issaquah bus driver appeals firing for "flipping off" President Bush
By Manuel Valdes
Seattle Times Eastside bureau
An Issaquah school bus driver fired for allegedly "flipping off"
President
Bush during a visit to Seattle in June is appealing her termination.
According to Issaquah School District officials, the incident happened
when
a district school bus stopped for the president's motorcade while
returning
from a field trip in Seattle.
As the president waved to the school children from his limousine, the
bus
driver made an obscene gesture, said Sara Niegowski, a spokeswoman for
the
district.
Bush was in Seattle attending a fundraiser for Congressman Dave
Reichert,
who was riding in the same limousine.
Reichert campaign officials confirm that Bush told Reichert about the
gesture and that the congressman later called Issaquah's superintendent
to
let her know about the incident.
But the district had been informed by other staff the same day it
happened,
Niegowski said. It investigated and found evidence pointing to
"unprofessional conduct" from the driver, she said.
The 43-year-old driver, with the district since 1999, was fired in
September. "This incident has to do with the responsibility of an
employee
who is supervising students to act professionally and serve as a role
model
for appropriate behavior," said Issaquah Superintendent Janet Barry.
"This
was part of a pattern of behavior with this particular bus driver, not
an
isolated incident."
The fired bus driver filed a union grievance last month for wrongful
termination. She has declined to be identified or interviewed.
Chris Dugovich, a spokesman for the Washington State Council of County
and
City Employees, said it wants the district to re-evaluate its decision.
"There's only one individual who saw this and it happens to be the
president
of the United States," Dugovich said. "We're interested in saving her
employment."
Barry said she personally knows Reichert from his days serving as King
County Sheriff when they discussed school resource officers. Reichert
called
as a courtesy, Barry said.
"He never discussed his view or suggested what action he thought would
be
appropriate to take," Barry said. "He reported the incident believing -
rightly - that I would want to know this occurred, that as a steward of
children and public resources, one of my employees had acted
inappropriately
in her job capacity."
Barry reiterated that the decision to terminate the employee was not
motivated by any political reason.
"If the bus driver had made the gesture to a driver who cut her off on a
local road, we would have taken the same action," Barry said.
Times reporter Jonathan Martin contributed to this report.
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She should have given him the double back flip!
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| Nov 3, 2006 @ 3:37 PM |
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Always_Striving
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This is for all the bus drivers out there thinking that they can get away with that
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| Nov 3, 2006 @ 3:45 PM |
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spongebob777
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The ignorant childish bitch deserves to lose her job for flipping anyone off.
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| Nov 3, 2006 @ 4:09 PM |
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FeliciVagano
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The ignorant childish bitch deserves to lose her job for flipping anyone off. you can't be serious here....but for what it is worth.... 
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| Nov 3, 2006 @ 4:21 PM |
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kattsmeow
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The 43-year-old driver, with the district since 1999, was fired in
September. "This incident has to do with the responsibility of an
employee
who is supervising students to act professionally and serve as a role
model
for appropriate behavior," said Issaquah Superintendent Janet Barry.
"This
was part of a pattern of behavior with this particular bus driver, not
an
isolated incident."
"He reported the incident believing -
rightly - that I would want to know this occurred, that as a steward of
children and public resources, one of my employees had acted
inappropriately
in her job capacity."
If one of my kids bus driver would have did this they too would have been fired right away. What is that teaching our children? It doesn't matter who it was done to, youjust don't do this with children that are in your care.
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| Nov 3, 2006 @ 4:28 PM |
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spongebob777
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you can't be serious here
Actually I am quite serious. I have yet to find an employer that doesn't have rules against obscene gestures. In this case it was a school bus driver with a busload of children.
I guess following the rules and simple common decency are well beyond the realm of some folks experience.
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| Nov 3, 2006 @ 4:30 PM |
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Jankia
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I guess following the rules and simple common decency are well beyond the realm of some folks experience
The same goes for your ignorant childish bastards to Sponge. 
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| Nov 3, 2006 @ 4:38 PM |
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spongebob777
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I'm not dealing with children or on the job.
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| Nov 3, 2006 @ 4:42 PM |
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FeliciVagano
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does this mean that I am wrong? how bout... if it's good enough for the president.. it is good enough for me?? obviously you did not check out strivings link... 
(btw... Bush took it with humor...)
“The congressman hadn’t seen it, but the president turned to him and said, ‘That one’s not a fan,”’ said Reichert spokeswoman Kimberly Cadena.
furthermore.. why do you all think firing her was necessary... reprimanded sure.. but termination??  Try driving a school bus every day... it is a no win situation for the drivers... IMHO, it takes the patience of Job...
The 43-year-old driver, whose name was not released, was driving middle school children back to school after a zoo visit on June 16 when the president and Republican Rep. Dave Reichert drove slowly by in a motorcade. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15532553/
thinking that flipping the bird is mild compared to what some of these "middle school" children know...
[Edited on 11/3/2006 4:53 PM]
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| Nov 3, 2006 @ 5:01 PM |
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Jankia
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I'm not dealing with children or on the job
I wasnt referring to you but to the ignorant childish bastards on here or anywhere else.
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| Nov 3, 2006 @ 5:02 PM |
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spongebob777
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I wasnt referring to you but to the ignorant childish bastards on here or anywhere else.
I know it Jan, I'm just irritable today. I think I'm starting my period. 
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| Nov 3, 2006 @ 5:18 PM |
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Bj864
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I think they should deal with it in whatever way they normally would, if she had done it to someone else.
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| Nov 3, 2006 @ 5:55 PM |
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Empath
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I think they should deal with it in whatever way they normally would, if she had done it to someone else.
Which should be termination. Someone acting so inappropriately in front of children should not be role models for them. Don't forget children see this driver twice every day, on her regular route. What kind of behaviour does she model on a daily basis?
Let her work anywhere but around children.
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| Nov 3, 2006 @ 5:57 PM |
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chinabull2000
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Which should be termination. Someone acting so inappropriately in front of children should not be role models for them. Agreed. 
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| Nov 3, 2006 @ 5:59 PM |
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Always_Striving
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Someone acting so inappropriately in front of children should not be role models for them
Neither should the leadership figure of our country!!!!!! Click the link in post #2.
BTW the bus driver claims that no child saw it. It was a personal message that needed to be conveyed to Mr. Bush
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| Nov 3, 2006 @ 6:00 PM |
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FeliciVagano
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bus drivers are "role models"???
IMO termination is extreme
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| Nov 3, 2006 @ 6:00 PM |
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chinabull2000
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Neither should the leadership figure of our country!!!!!! Click the link in post #2. Wow, someone sack the President!! 
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| Nov 3, 2006 @ 6:04 PM |
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spongebob777
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Wow, someone sack the President!!
That video was from well before he became president. He no longer holds the job he held then.
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| Nov 3, 2006 @ 6:05 PM |
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chinabull2000
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That video was from well before he became president. He no longer holds the job he held then. Ok, don't sack him just yet then.
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| Nov 3, 2006 @ 6:09 PM |
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spongebob777
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Ok, don't sack him just yet then
We're giving him two more years then his butt is gone, I promise.
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