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Izzy Dieker asserts that all children should be able to ride the school bus safely. (Youtube/KSNT News)
Disciplinary action has been brought against two school employees after they punished a student and banned her from the school bus for saying “I’m a lesbian”.
Izzy Dieker, a 13-year old student in Kansas, was told to move to the front of the school bus and was subsequently banned from it by the two employees.
Dieker told
KSNT News: “At home, my dad told me that he got a call from the school that I was kicked off for saying that I was a lesbian.”
Izzy Dieker back on USD 251 bus; investigation continues into incident including use of word lesbian shortly before disciplinary action Featured Izzy Dieker (left) poses with her mother, Tasha Cooper. Photo submitted by Daniel Dieker
After a tense few days, Izzy Dieker can once again ride a USD 251 North Lyon County school bus to and from North Lyon County Junior High.
The eighth-grader recently gained permission to use the bus after she was told she couldn t ride following an incident Jan. 26 and subsequent conversations between the family and the district. Dieker s parents, Daniel Dieker and Tasha Cooper, spoke with KVOE News on Saturday after saying they had seen a video of the incident in question. They say the incident started in the back of the bus and culminated with Izzy Dieker saying she was a lesbian as part of a loud and occasionally vulgar conversation. Daniel Dieker says the conversation drew the attention of the currently-unnamed bus driver a coupl