Posted on 12/15/2007 6:18:18 PM PST by fight_truth_decay
"I rolled my window down and asked what happened. They said the bus driver apparently swore at them, took off and left the bus."
I’m surprised this doesn’t happen more often. It’s a thankless job. The kids are monsters and their parents can’t be bothered enough to teach them to respect others and obey the rules. Most buses are total chaos. Is it any wonder many have to have monitors and video cameras.
When my youngest was riding the bus it was bad. Jumping over seats, throwing stuff. Complaint after complaint. I offered to get parents together to ride the bus and make them behave. It was free help and was refused.
Well he shouldn’t have left them but I understand. He should have just drove to the police station and handed over custody.
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The only thing a bus driver can safely do is DRIVE THE BUS!! ( yes, I am shouting, but it seems school bureaucrats are deaf and stupid.)
When there is no adult supervision on the back of the bus STUFF HAPPENS! (rape, assault, harassment, kids are killed being dragged and crushed by the bus,,,etc.)
Basic rule: NEVER EVER have anything to do with anyone else’s children.
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BINGO!
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Is this the wonderful “real world” socialization that homeschoolers are missing?
Could some government school defender please explain to me how this environment is good for kids?
I cannot for the life of me understand how a bus driver is supposed to drive and supervise at the same time.
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It’s an economic issue. Putting supervisors on the school bus means less money in the teachers’ paychecks.
Thirty years ago I remember the bus drivers carried a two foot long, four inch wide paddle with holes drilled in it for meeting out some sobering instruction.
I only saw it used once, but that was the quietest bus I've ever been on (at least once the wailing had died down).
Just add a camera on the driver’s seat, and show the parents the tape of their misbehaving children.
Just add a camera on the driver’s seat, and show the parents the tape of their misbehaving children.
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The parents themselves are products of government schools. You honestly think this will do any good?
We are quickly reaching the point where only the great-grandparents of this nation will remember what rational schools were like.
Says it all!! I'm on the bus drivers side! Kids have NO respect for adults OR things these days.
I totally agree there should be monitors or assistants on buses. I still can’t get over the fact that these children were abandoned.
Parents’ fault.
I like your ideas. I just think he should not have left the abandoned bus.
I actually really like the idea of leaving them at the Superintendant’s office. In my experience with our school district, the lower level people are okay, and they get worse as they get higher up. Principals are worse than teachers, and district administrators are worse than principals.
The district administrators are so out of touch with reality it’s unbelievable.
A few years ago, the district closed my daughters’ school. It was a good (as public schools go), had good test scores, it was in a nice neighborhood, and had great families. The district officials at a meeting said all of their schools were equal and the kids would get just as good of education at every school.
How wrong they were. My daughters went to the new school. It was huge & impersonal. The kids were horrible and there was a lack of discipline. The test scores were horrible. It was awful. My daughters are now in private school.
In California, the schools want the kids at school because they get more money every day they are in school. If a kid misses school, the school will lose something like $50/day.
They don’t care if a kid is bad. They don’t care if a kid is sick. They just want the money.
If that is the parents' concern then I certainly side with the bus driver. He can't drive safely with all that going on. He may have snapped and left before he hurt somebody.
He should have stopped the bus and given them a warning and if they didn’t head the warning kick all of them out on the street and drive off.
The bus driver kept his sanity. I support him 100%. The parents will NEVER say their children were at fault. The Superintendent evidently had not dealt with this already. I used to do long-term subbing. One day I told the Principal — YOU will have to teach this class tomorrow, I am not coming back. He had been crisp with me when I sent TEN of my 6th-graders to his office during the morning. I told him all I wanted in that room were kids who wanted to learn, and if that were only a handful, so be it.
I homeschooled my own son, of course.
That bus driver should get a medal of honor. I bet he didn’t have duct tape or bubble wrap or cattle prods or ANYTHING he could have used to keep order. And for heaven’s sake, the kids were old enough to walk home. It’s not like they were Kindergarteners or anything.
Whine on.
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