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Parent tells school board her daughter was left off route, suspended from bus after memorial bear incident
Summary
A parent used public comment to allege a bus incident in which her daughter—she says—was singled out after defending a memorial bear; she said staff wrongly accused her daughter and suspended her from the bus for five days and that she has withdrawn her child from Red Wing Public Schools.
A parent in public comment told the Red Wing Public School District School Board that on Dec. 19 her daughter boarded a bus carrying a memorial bear containing a child’s ashes and was punched and provoked by another student, then disciplined.
The parent (identified in the transcript as a public commenter) said her daughter intervened to protect the memorial bear and that the bus driver and school staff responded by returning the daughter to school, placing her in the office and later suspending her from the bus for five days. "They knowingly falsely told me that…
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