School bus driver fired over sleeping child
The Atlanta school board has upheld the firing of a bus driver who left a sleeping child inside her bus while she used a grocery store restroom.
Felecia Dean, who drove Atlanta school buses for more than 20 years, failed to conduct a post-trip inspection after dropping off students at Kimberly Elementary in southwest Atlanta on April 16, 2013, according to a hearing officer's report obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution through an open records request.
A concerned citizen called police after finding the crying child wandering in front of the grocery store, and police didn’t charge Dean with any violation.
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Mark Niesse is an enterprise reporter and covers elections and Georgia government for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and is considered an expert on elections and voting. Before joining the AJC, he worked for The Associated Press in Atlanta, Honolulu and Montgomery, Alabama. He also reported for The Daily Report and The Santiago Times in Chile.
