Schools Apologize For Movie-Shoot Bus Diversion
Published: November 13, 2009
Updated: November 13, 2009
BELLAIRE, Ohio - Ohio parents who say their children endured long and strange walks home are panning the disruption of school bus service for a Hollywood movie shoot.
Scenes for a new Denzel Washington movie called “Unstoppable” are being filmed this week in Bellaire in eastern Ohio, 112 miles southeast of Cleveland.
Parents say children were dropped off at a shopping plaza on Wednesday when the filming kept a bus from completing its route. Gregory Jeffreys says his 12-year-old daughter wasn’t sure how to walk home and it took her an hour. He says children were endangered.
The Bellaire school system is apologizing. Superintendent Tony Scott says the district should have notified parents about the bus diversion but “dropped the ball.“
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This is utterly and completely unacceptable. These are children we talking about! Firstly, the buses should NOT have been diverted at all. the movie producers and directors should have had to shoot around the bus schedule, included it in their shoot, or paid the school whatever was necessary to make sure these children were dropped off at their regular stops. And who is the idiot at the school who allowed the movie people to dictate to them they could not interrupt their shoot?! That person has a LOT to answer for! Again, putting children in danger like this is totally and completely unacceptable and should have to answer for this incredibly bad decision.
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