One group of schoolchildren were forced to endure a 90-minute ride to their private school in a bus that was defiled with every form of filth. And when the school and parents expressed outrage over the condition of the bus to the owner of the company all they got were denials, and a refusal to refund any of the transportation fees.
Vincent Lopez and his wife chose the Lawrence Woodmere Academy on Long Island for their daughter Veronica hoping for a brighter future. They love the education she gets at her private, $32,000 a year school. But it’s getting to and from their Queens’ home that’s left them horrified.
Vincent describes the morning last month his 7th grader was picked up.
“Feces, vomit, urine, and on all the chairs,” Lopez recalled.
Eight children in all were picked up that day. School administrators confirmed teachers boarded the bus to document the filth, capturing photo after photo of vomit, feces, urine, discarded food, even surgical gloves.
Lopez was outraged at the hazards the children were exposed to.
“Feces on the ground. Vomit on the chair. Urine smelling. And the bus driver saying, ‘Get in!’ And eight children sitting on one chair because it’s filthy.”
Veronica still recoils remembering the day she endured the vile ride.
“There was a broom that had poop,” Veronica said. “I tried to go to sit in another seat, and it was sticky too. We all had to squish into the back!”
passengers on a school charter bus originating in Lot and traveling on the highway between Le Mans and Tours were stricken with malaise (they barfed a lot).
The Vern Express runs round the clock between the university’s Foggy Bottom and Mount Vernon campuses.