School Bus Driver Ordered to Remove MAGA Hat
A school bus driver in small town Pennsylvania quit his job rather than comply with a school district edict that he stop wearing an iconic “Make America Great Again” ballcap.
David Bonhoff, a retired Baltimore County Police officer said a student got triggered by the red cap and had complained to the Littlestown Area School District.
Bonhoff’s supervisor from Krise Transportation called him the morning of Feb. 18 to discuss his wearing of the MAGA hat, WBFF reported.
“If that wasn’t a condition of my employment, I’d be back to work tomorrow. I miss the kids. Those kids and I had a great relationship,” he told local news.
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Bonhoff said his boss offered to buy him an American flag hat “because the school district has deemed that they don’t want you to wear that ‘Make America Great Again hat.”
In an interview with CBS 21, Bonhoff, who is known as Mr. Dave from Bus #73, stated that “making America great is what we should all strive to be.”
“Anybody who doesn’t want America to prosper, I take issue with them,” he added. The former bus driver also took issue with allegations the hat was making a political statement.
“There’s nothing in this hat that says anything about partisanship,” he told television station WHAM. “I think that saying that this hat is political is absurd. It’s patriotic.”
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As noted by Daily Mail, Littlestown said “the driver was not employed directly by the district, but by Krise Transportation.”
The district’s acting superintendent, Al Moyer, said it’s a matter of remaining ”neutral on sensitive issues.”
Bonhoff pushed back against the transportation company’s dress code which notes that employees are prohibited from wearing attire deemed inappropriate, including items depicting political sentiments, according to its handbook
“I want to be able to express myself,” he said regarding Krise’s dress code. “I don’t want somebody to tell me, ‘Well, my feelings are hurt. You got to take the hat off.’”
The attack on the patriotic bus driver drew the attention of State Sen. Doug Mastriano who immediately condemned the school district.
“What happened here is not about ‘sensitivity’ or ‘respect.’ It is about the suffocating culture of political correctness that is spreading through our institutions — a culture that demands conformity, punishes dissent and attempts to silence anyone who refuses to bow to its ideology,” the senator said in a statement.
“Political correctness has become a tool of intimidation. It is used to shame, threaten and drive ordinary Americans out of their jobs and public life simply for expressing views that do not align with the approved narrative,” he added. “That is not tolerance. That is coercion.”
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