NEWBURGH – Trisha Crumpler’s son, Matthew Coolidge, Jr., is a 14-year-old NFA Main student in Newburgh and she is incensed over his treatment on the school bus on the way to classes on Thursday morning.
It seems the bus was overcrowded and the female driver told her son to get off the bus at Second and Liberty streets and that she would pick him back up once she drops off the busload of students at their school.
Matthew lives on the other side of the city and was “terrified,” said his mother. When he was left at the curbside, he called his grandfather who picked him up.
In the meantime, Crumpler called Gallagher Bus Company, the district’s transportation contractor and a video recording of the incident was reviewed confirming what had happened.
Crumpler filed a complaint with the police department later in the day.
This incident occurred days after a student on another Newburgh bus was slashed by two youths who got on the bus and attacked the student.
