In what country does this story take place?
A school bus driver let Rachel Armstrong's three children board the bus Monday morning, but he warned them that he wouldn't give them a ride home that afternoon, nor could they ever ride his route again.Turns out the story is a little more complicated than it appears. But among other things, the piece takes great care not to explore the nationality of the bus driver, a salient point and something Wonker's editors at X (a major publication) would never have let him get away with.
The problem: Armstrong's 10-year-old twin girls and 8-year-old son speak English. According to their mother, the driver told them the route had been designated for non-English speakers only.
Armstrong said Wednesday that she got a call from a worried daughter who didn't know how she was going to get home. "She thought they had done something wrong,'' she said. So a furious Armstrong had to leave work early to pick up her stranded kids from Phalen Lake Elementary School.
Stuff like this really puts people on edge these days. Reporters owe it to the public to look at all the facts, not just the convenient ones that make the recipients of this kind of rudeness look worse than the perps.
Hat tip to Gates of Vienna for uncorking this tidbit, although they shoulda read to the end of the story.
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