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Driver Accused of Spanking, Choking Student

Updated 7:36 PM CDT, Tue, Dec 2, 2008

Related Topics: Kaleb Khonsari

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A Plano school bus driver is on administrative leave, accused of spanking and choking a student.

Kaleb Khonsari, 13, has ADHD and OCD and was talking back to the bus driver who told him to stop making fun of another student.

Khonsari said he taunted the driver and said, "What are you going to do, hit me?"

According to Khonsari, the bus driver then grabbed him, bent him over and spanked him. The boy said it was only a few seconds when he mouthed off again and that is when the driver pushed and choked him.

The whole incident was caught on the school bus surveillance camera.

Khonsari's mother, Jennifer, said her son feels humiliated and that she is furious and is transferring him to another school.

She said whether it was provoked or not, this should have never happened.

The Plano Independent School District is investigating.

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  • ams student Monday, Dec 22 at 12:46 PM FLAG COMMENT i agree with a concerned ams student, nobodky should feel sorry for him. i barley know him and i know that he is a total jerk. he is a horrible kid i'm also a friend of the girl who died her hair and he got her in trouble yet he had black hair with a white strip across his hair and he didn't get in trouble. it makes me so mad that people feel sorry for him. he got what was coming.
  • Mark E Monday, Dec 22 at 3:49 AM FLAG COMMENT The way of disciplining a child is not by spanking them; you have to educate them and teach the kids as early as now on good manners and try to be patient with them without hurting them. A bus driver in Plano Texas grabbed a 13-year-old boy and spanked him on the bus. Do you think she should be getting her next payday? The bus driver, Gail Atkin, also failed to notice the video camera on the bus, and the whole incident was cau ... MORE >
  • Mark E Monday, Dec 22 at 3:48 AM FLAG COMMENT The way of disciplining a child is not by spanking them; you have to educate them and teach the kids as early as now on good manners and try to be patient with them without hurting them. A bus driver in Plano Texas grabbed a 13-year-old boy and spanked him on the bus. Do you think she should be getting her next payday? The bus driver, Gail Atkin, also failed to notice the video camera on the bus, and the whole incident was cau ... MORE >
  • Mark E Monday, Dec 22 at 3:46 AM FLAG COMMENT The way to discipline a child is not by spanking them; you have to educate them and teach the kids as early as now on good manners and try to be patient with them without hurting them. A bus driver in Plano Texas grabbed a 13-year-old boy and spanked him on the bus. Do you think she should be getting her next payday? The bus driver, Gail Atkin, also failed to notice the video camera on the bus, and the whole incident was caugh ... MORE >
  • A Concerned (AMS) Student Wednesday, Dec 10 at 9:06 PM FLAG COMMENT WOOO! GO BUS DRIVER! (I'm proud to say I'm one of the ones who cheered when we heard the news) Seriously. If none of you know Caleb personally and are accusing the bus driver: don't. He is seriously one of the worst people I've ever met. Right before Thanksgiving break, he was being an idiot to a good friend of mine, who had recently died her hair blackish-red (an actually natural color, believe it or not), and got her suspe ... MORE >

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