N.H. mom says her 5th-grader was kicked off the school bus for the year because his mask wasn’t over his nose
"I must be being punked right?!"
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A woman says her fifth grade son was kicked off a school bus for the rest of the year because of a mask-wearing infraction.
Leilani Provencal posted a photo of an “inappropriate bus behavior notification” slip on Facebook, which said her son, Brody Heath, 9, had not worn his mask over his nose.
The slip said it was Heath’s second offense for prohibited behavior on the bus. But Provencal told the Caledonian-Record the first warning her son received was for using an electronic device, not for wearing his mask incorrectly.
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Provencal said her son, who goes to school in Monroe, lowered his mask Tuesday after accepting a mint from a friend, and that she’s struggling to understand how there’s no tolerance for a child making a mistake.
“I’ve tried really hard to get my head around this and it just doesn’t make sense,” she wrote in the Facebook post.
Provencal told the newspaper she called the bus company who told her they had a zero tolerance policy for safety infractions related to the pandemic.
A phone message seeking comment was left Friday with the bus company, JPI Transportation.
Provencal said she was told by school board members that the school district could not alter bus company policy, but that the issue could be discussed at the next board meeting, on Oct. 19.
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