Birnie Bus Service defends driver

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UTICA, N.Y. (WKTV) - A Utica father says he wants answers from the school district and Birnie Bus Service because, he says, the school bus dropped his developmentally disabled son off at the wrong house.
    
The Utica School District says the incident never happened.
    
Pollack says hs son, Michael Jr., was comming home from cub scouts at Albany Elementary School Wednesday afternoon on a school bus run by the Bernie Bus Service.  He says the driver made him get off at the family's old house on Richardson Ave. The same house that had been destroyed by fire back in August. Polack says his son attempted to tell the bus driver he wasn't at the right house, but to no avail.
    
"My son told me the bus driver told him to shut-up," Pollack says.
    
The Utica School District says the Polack's story isn't true.  District Superintendent Jim Willis says he met with officials from Birnie Bus Service Friday afternoon. Willis says the bus company has video tape from the bus that clearly shows Michael Polack Jr. was not dropped off at the wrong house.
    
"We have physical evidence that shows the boy never left the bus...until he got to the correct stop," Willis says.
    
Willis says Birnie Bus will turn the video tape from the bus over to police on Monday and will continue to investigate further.

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