School Bus Driver Fired After Alleged Hate Crime

July 26, 2007

Author: Donna Vavala

Source: EmeraldCoast.com

http://community.emeraldcoast.com/articles/plaisted_17128___article.html/board_school.html

The school bus driver arrested in May after he allegedly cursed and spit at Muslim children in a local fast-food restaurant has lost his job at Bay District Schools.

The School Board voted at Wednesday’s meeting to support Superintendent James McCalister‘s recommendation that Thomas Eugene Plaisted, 60, be suspended without pay and terminated. Plaisted did not attend the meeting.