Moss Point Parents Angered Over Bus Driver’s Racial Slurs
Parents say action from the school district comes only after they have called on the Jackson County chapter of the N.A.A.C.P. to step in. Ashly Lee and Atare Boler are the mothers of children who ride the bus to Escatawpa Upper Elementary School daily. The mothers were shocked when their children told them their white bus driver had been yelling racial slurs. Lee says, "That’s mainly why I moved here, so they can have a comfortable place to go to school, to and from school, and he makes my kids very uncomfortable.”
Parents say they’ve appealed to the school district for months, but have yet to see action. They’ve now turned to the N.A.A.C.P. to step in. Boler says, "That’s really my main concern, is the safety of the kids. They don’t need to be on a bus with a bus driver using racial comments towards all of the kids."
President of the Jackson County chapter of the N.A.A.C.P., Curley Clark, says he began his investigation on Tuesday, interviewing parents, students, and employees of the school district. He says their investigation has uncovered that this type of behavior is not an isolated incident. Clark says, "It’s alarming that these types of occurrences have been going on since the beginning of school and it has gotten to this state now."
News 25 spoke with the Moss Point School District Wednesday. Officials confirm the report and say they’ve begun an investigation of their own. Parents tell us the bus driver has not been driving the route, where the incident occurred recently. If the allegations prove to be true, the N.A.A.C.P. is asking for the termination of the bus driver.
Boler closes, "I just hope he finds himself another occupation other than driving kids to and from school." While parents wait for justice in a case they’re calling purely unacceptable, the Moss Point School District says they won’t take any action until its investigation is complete.
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