Dayton Public Schools officials are reviewing possible disciplinary action for a substitute bus driver that is accused of flipping off and arguing with a parent in front of a bus full of elementary students.
A video, which was posted to the Facebook page “School Bus Drivers” on Tuesday, shows the driver flipping off the parent.
Rich Gomez was the parent who filmed the video, which was shot while his 7-year-old daughter and 12-year-old stepson were boarding the bus on Phillips Road Monday morning.
Gomez said his daughter boarded the bus and the driver asked her name, but his daughter didn’t hear the bus driver. The driver then grabbed his daughter’s backpack and asked her name again and that was when Gomez began filming the incident, he said.
In the video you hear the parent tell the driver that she should not being yelling at his stepson, who is a student and was boarding the bus after Gomez’s daughter. The driver asks the child to sit down and turns to the parent and makes a vulgar gesture.
“I hope you got a good picture of it,” the unidentified driver told the parent in the video and then closes her bus door.
The parent told the driver “enjoy your job.”
The driver then tells reopens her door and yells at the parent saying, “You get your CDL, learn how to drive a school bus, and learn the laws, then come and tell me how to do my job.”
Dayton Public Schools said the substitute driver, whose identity was not released, has been referred for disciplinary action. The district said they are unable to release additional information, since they don’t discuss personnel matters in detail.
Gomez said the bus picked up students that attend Eastmont Elementary, a pre-K through eighth grade school.
