School bus monitor sent to the ER with bite marks after being attacked by a student and her mom

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE/Gray News) – A school bus monitor in Louisiana was sent to the emergency room after she was allegedly attacked by a student and her mother.

The attack was caught on camera.

It happened on Thursday on an Orleans Parish school bus.

Video shows a McDonogh 35 High School student and her mother beating the bus monitor, who appears to fight back.

The bus monitor’s husband, Johnny Jackson, said she was sent to the emergency room with multiple injuries, including bite marks.

“What’s happening with our youth? How disrespectful our youth have become ... and rebellious,” Jackson said.

Jackson said the student and her mother attacked his wife, Tamika Jackson, while she was working her shift as a monitor on the school bus.

“The mother... then just reaches out and hits her in the face, and then the assault occurs, so now the daughter joins the fray,” he said.

He said the altercation began after his wife told the student she couldn’t sit on the last two rows of the bus.

“For the previous week and a half, a lot of the students have been going to the back of the bus, and my wife suspected they may be doing some lewd acts toward the back of the bus, so she told the student, ‘Hey, you can’t go back there,’” Jackson said.

He said the student then called her mother, who boarded the bus at a stop along the route and joined the altercation.

Jackson described his wife’s injuries as severe.

“They pulled her hair out. They bit her in her face, on her lips, on her thumbs, scratched face. She has a large gash running across her face,” he said.

Jackson also expressed frustration with the New Orleans Police Department, which issued his wife a Municipal Court summons for disturbing the peace.

“The captain came out as well and told me the same thing: that until they get video footage, they have to treat this as a routine fight, which is insane knowing that my wife is at work.”

NOPD said there are no police reports currently in their system related to the case.

InspireNOLA Charter Schools, which governs McDonogh 35, said it is actively investigating the fight and that the safety of students and staff is a top priority.