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Parent says two violent incidents on elementary bus spurred calls for permanent monitor and clearer discipline
Summary
A parent told the South Orangetown Board that two incidents in under a month left her kindergartener injured and prompted calls for permanent adult supervision on Bus 10 Bells and clearer disciplinary steps for students.
A South Orangetown parent told the Board of Education she filed two incident reports after her 5-year-old was struck twice while riding Bus 10 Bells during the first month of school, including a zipper cut that left a wound above his eye.
Candace Varian, identified in public comment as a parent, told the board: “In less than 1 month, unfortunately, I've had to file 2 incidents reporting involving my 5 year old son who just started kindergarten.” She described an early incident in which another boy “hit my son across his mouth” and later an Oct. 1 episode in which “she came around while the bus was in motion, clenched her teeth and fist and started swinging her sweatshirt…when he was cut with the zipper.”
Varian said a bus monitor was assigned after the first…
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