Bus driver caught on video shouting profanities at Ohio students ‘won’t take it back’
A school bus driver at the center of a viral video in which she was shown shouting profanities at students is now sharing her side of the story.
Video of the incident in Amherst, Ohio, has been widely shared on social media and has led to the resignation of the driver, Jackie Miller.
“It is out of character for me,” Miller later told WEWS. “I’m not normally like that. I’m normally as calm as a cucumber. It just got to the point where I snapped.”
The video uploaded by WKYC shows Miller shouting at students, which began over the smell of perfume on the bus. She said she is allergic to the scent.
“My foot’s going to be so far up your (expletive), it’s going to dangle out of your (expletive) nose,” she said at one point during the interaction.
Warning: The video below contains graphic language.
Miller said the perfume scent caused her to have an asthma attack, WKYC reported.
“That particular day was challenging to say the very least because it started the minute this core group of students got on the bus,” Miller told the outlet.
The Chronicle reported a student uploaded the video to TikTok and it has been viewed millions of times.
Amherst Schools Superintendent Mike Molnar said in a March 29 letter to families that Miller had resigned, according to The Morning Journal.
“The behavior exhibited by the bus driver is unacceptable and will not be tolerated,” Molnar said.
Miller told WKYC bus drivers are treated “with such lack of respect.”
“I’m sorry for the way this went down, I truly am,” Miller told the outlet. “I do apologize for my actions, but I won’t take it back.”
She is now being supported by members of the community, who have started a GoFundMe for Miller’s retirement and vacation.
“After so many years of being treated horribly by kids and underpaid this bus driver was done with it and went Red Forman on them,” the organizer of the GoFundMe stated, referencing a character from “That ’70s Show.” “I’m on her side and if it was my kids, make ‘em walk!”
One of her quotes from the video has also been used on a T-shirt at the Ohio apparel store Mistakes on the Lake. Proceeds from the sale will go to Miller.
The owner of the shop said she met Miller, who was “extremely humbled by the amount of support” she was receiving.
Miller told The Chronicle she may return to bus driving, but not with kids.
Amherst is about 30 miles southwest of Cleveland.
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