A school bus driver who wore a schoolgirl’s uniform while driving a vehicle with a “Lolita’s Line” sign in the window will no longer be working for the York Catholic District School Board, a spokesperson has told National Post.
The incident stems from a video that was
after being filmed outside St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Elementary School in Vaughan, Ont., just north of Toronto.
In the video, several people are speaking to the driver, who briefly stands in front of the bus dressed in a short pink skirt, stockings and a frilly shirt, before entering the vehicle.
“You picked up the kids dressed like that?” one person in the video asks, to which the driver answers: “Yep.”
Another asks several times: “Why do you call your bus the Lolita Line?” The driver then closes the bus door and drives off.
Lolita is the title of a 1955 novel by Vladimir Nabokov, in which the narrator, using the name Humbert Humbert, describes his obsession with a 12-year-old girl, Dolores Haze, whom he later kidnaps and sexually abuses after becoming her stepfather.
A statement from the York Catholic District School Board shared by a board spokesperson says the board “is aware of a social media video filmed at St. Michael the Archangel CES.” It notes that third-party companies provide school busing in Ontario.
YCDSB staff immediately brought this matter to the bus driver’s employer. The company quickly addressed this situation with its employee, and the driver will no longer provide busing to and from the school,” the statement says. “The company has assured the YCDSB that this would not be an issue at any YCDSB school going forward.”
It adds: “All bus drivers in Ontario are required to pass a Vulnerable Sector Check with their local police department and they receive extensive training before transporting students. The YCDSB followed all of its child protection procedures after this incident.”
National Post has reached out to Landmark Student Transportation, the company listed on the side of the bus, but has not yet received a reply.
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