Facebook post about hungry child gets school bus driver fired
Found on CNet News on Wednesday, 05 June 2013
A Georgia school bus driver is so upset when a 6th-grader tells him that he was 40 cents short for lunch, and therefore hungry, that he posts about it online.
Cook felt "in my heart of hearts" that the child told him the truth. He says he was fired, a fact that the school doesn't deny. School officials told the Times-Georgian that he was fired for making derogatory statements about the school.
If, as the school contends, the incident never happened, will the child be disciplined for lying and causing so much controversy? Will he be expelled, even?
The school sure handled all this with so much insight and sensitivity.