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Bus driver caught on camera pouring water on student; tells him to speak in English

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Bus driver caught on camera pouring water on student; tells him to speak in English
WATCH ABOVE: A bus driver in Idaho was caught on cell phone video allegedly pouring water on a eight-grader and telling him to speak English. Zack Rickens reports – Sep 7, 2016

A bus driver in Idaho has been fired after she was caught on camera allegedly pouring water on a student in the bus and telling him to speak English.

The Sept. 1 incident began over a water bottle that eighth-grader Miguel Martinez said he had dropped by accident.

When Martinez tried to explain to the bus driver he had only dropped the bottle by accident, which spilled some water on a nearby student, he said she wouldn’t listen.

“I’m like ‘but it was an accident when I poured it on her.’ I’m like, ‘I didn’t even mean to,’” explained Martinez. “And that’s when she started to pour the water [on me] and said ‘it was an accident,’” explained Martinez.
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However, other students on the bus said they have been putting up with this type of behaviour from the driver for years.

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And this time, one student, Eduardo Tapia, decided to record the event as it unfolded.

“This has been going on for several years but no one’s ever recorded her. And [when we] try to tell someone she kicks us out of the bus. And [then] we can’t do nothing about it because we have no evidence,” said Tapia to KMVT News.

Not only is the woman believed to be pouring water on a student in the footage, she is also heard telling him to speak English.

“You speak to me, you speak to me in English. I live in America and it’s an English-speaking country. So, if you want to speak to me, you speak to me in English,” the driver is heard saying.

The employer of the bus driver, Northside Bus Company, said she has since been let go.

The school district superintendent also said he is aware of the incident.

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