Two months ago, a 9-year-old nonverbal autistic Cambridge student was assaulted en route to his out-of-district school in Southboro.The bus company, NRT, tried to blame the boy’s injuries on another student in the vehicle, until its security video exposed the lie. His own bus monitor had assaulted him. She claimed he was possessed by the devil. According to my conversations with the boy’s mother and her attorney, the second monitor in the vehicle concurred. Autistic students are all possessed by the devil, she allegedly said.
Holy shit. I knew a kid who took one of those buses. What a nightmare for these parents.
And of course, Simmons continues to do procedural shenanigans like this:
The committee moved on to another time-waster, an attempt by Mayor Simmons to foist on the next committee 17 revisions and amendments of the official rules. Of the changes that no one asked the Mayor to propose, Member Elizabeth Hudson said, “I was surprised to see this on the agenda last week and not receive a redlined version until two and half hours into the meeting today.” “This wasn’t nefarious in any way,” the Mayor replied.