JEDDAH: The Board of Grievances on Thursday overturned a decision of the Ministry of Education to close a Jeddah school over the school bus death of a Grade 3 student last October.
Ajel online news site said the judicial body ruled in favor of the Red Sea International School management and parents, who appealed that their children should at least be allowed to complete the school year in the same school.
The MOE ordered the permanently closure of the school after a panel of investigators found negligence on the part of the school that led to the death of six-year-old pupil Abdul Malik.
The boy was said to have fallen asleep on the bus on the way to school and the driver left the bus at a parking lot without checking if all his passengers had alighted.The child was later found lifeless inside the bus, reportedly due to suffocation.
The father and uncle of the child lodged a complain with the MOE, accusing school officials of being negligent for not checking why one of their students was missing.
According to Ajel online, a member of the Bureau of Investigation and Prosecution had said that MOE ruling to permanently close the school did not meet the basic conditions for the issuance of a decision of such magnitude, and that it did not take into account the side of the other parties concerned.
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