A Texas school bus driver is accused of punishing students by driving slowly during a scorching hot day and making them put up the windows on an un-air-conditioned vehicle.
Temperatures hovered near the triple digits and the heat index made it feel even hotter Thursday, the day the driver for the Sealy Independent School District is accused of deliberately going slow on the bus route, attorney Harry Daniels said Tuesday.
The only air circulation on the bus was a fan the driver had for herself, said Daniels, who represents the parent of two of the at least 30 students he says were riding the bus.
“She needs to be terminated,” he said of the driver.
The school district in Sealy, which is about 55 miles west of Houston, declined to detail the driver’s employment status and denied that she was driving slowly to punish students.
“The driver was driving a speed that they felt was safe on a dirt road,” Sealy Independent School…
