Did she deserve to be fired?, Bus driver flips off the president Options

[BlackCelicaGT94]

SAQUAH, Wash. - An Issaquah school bus driver who was fired for "flipping off" President Bush is trying to get her job back.

The 43-year-old has filed a union grievance against the district, claiming wrongful termination.

Congressman Dave Reichert said the obscene gesture occurred as he was traveling in the president's limo in June on the way to a fund-raiser in Medina.

At a freeway ramp the limo passed several Issaquah school buses. The students waved to the president and Bush waved back. Bush was having a good time until he saw the driver. Bush turned to Reichert and said the driver had flipped him off.

Reichert later called the school district and the driver was fired in September.

A spokeswoman, Sara Niegowski, said the gesture was "not at all appropriate modeling for students on the bus."

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My thoughts - i give her props for having the balls to express how some of us feel in the country and itd be different if you were in your own vehicle (though you should have some respect for the office) but you are on the job just like Id probably get fired if I flipped off a client of ours. So I think she should just drop it and go get a new job

This post has been edited by BlackCelicaGT94: Nov 2, 2006 - 11:17 AM

[mzztoyota]

hhmmm, that is a weird predicament...I agree that it wouldn't be so bad if she were in her own vehicle, but on the job and with students in the bus? Hmmm...you're probably right, anyone who flips someone off on the job with clients watching would at least be penalized...but are you aware of how many laws there are about not imposing your views on a "captive audience" of schoolchildren. (They're captive because they are required by law to be going to school.) I'm training to be a teacher and they are wicked strict about the fact that you are a role model to the children and if you make your opinions heard that it is like dictating theirs...this seems like it would fall under that category to me...