Schools
Report Outlines Employee Disciplines At Glastonbury Schools
Glastonbury schools disciplined five employees — among them three bus drivers — over roughly six weeks, the Journal Inquirer reported.
GLASTONBURY, CT — An investigation from the Journal Inquirer revealed the Glastonbury school system disciplined five employees from Dec. 7 to Jan. 14 — and it found that three of the five are bus drivers.
The disciplines varied in severity from a written warning to a five-day unpaid suspension, and all stemmed from unrelated incidents, the newspaper reported.
One bus driver faced a five-day suspension after a "serious incident" on her bus route on Dec. 12, the newspaper reported, and another received a one-day suspension following an "incident."
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The specifics of those incidents were not made available.
A paraprofessional who received a written warning for refusing to cover a classroom on Jan. 5 filed a grievance over her warning, and wrote in it that she thought it would be unsafe to cover the classroom because of a possible COVID-19 exposure, the Journal Inquirer reported.
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"Other disciplined employees didn't respond to requests for comment or couldn't be reached," the Journal Inquirer wrote in its story.
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