[metmom]

As usual, no good deed goes unpunished.

[1rudeboy]

Yes, and she learned a valuable lesson that is nearly impossible to learn in a classroom.

[Slapshot68]

Zero tolerance = zero brains

[AmericanMade1776]

The Girl saved the School Systems from numerous lawsuits over injury from a bus accident and saved lives, and this is her reward??

[coloradan]

This is your youth.

This is your youth on government schools.

[khnyny]

It sounds like a Southpark episode. (rolls eyes)

[metmom]

ANOTHER REASON TO HOMESCHOOL

This ping list is for the “other” articles of interest to homeschoolers about education and public school. If you want on/off this list, please freepmail me. The main Homeschool Ping List by DaveLoneRanger handles the homeschool-specific articles. This can occasionally be a fairly high volume list.

I decided this one fits the list after all. The Saturday detention is one issue. The brain dead administration who would punish someone who did a heroic deed is another.

[varyouga]

I’m happy that she stopped an accident. It looks like she was on the bus because she cut school and didn’t call in ‘sick’. She didn’t miss class because of the incident like he article implies. She is getting punished for cutting school, not for stopping the bus.

I’m also wondering why and how a HS student was on an elementary school bus. Doesn’t the state control who can come in contact with kids at school and on the bus?

What if someone with worse intentions wanted to get close to the children?

[dangus]

>> Marina High School student Amanda Rouse was on a bus with 40 elementary school students Wednesday morning when the driver fell out of her seat after a turn and hit her head. <<

I HATE it when that happens? (IOW: WTF?)

[dangus]

But Rouse said she was punished because she wasn't supposed to be on the bus.

[silverleaf]

There is no law that says you can’t recognize a kid for a heroric action but also apply consequences for breaking school rules
In this case altought the drive by media wants us to be indignant against the mean old school, we don’t know how many times this kid has skipped class

If you were the parents do you want to put your kid on the bus in the morning and then the kid tells the bus driver to just give them a ride on the next bus route and drop them off back home without the school or you knowing?

Whatever happened to radio communications in the buses so they could call the schools?

Also this bus driver wasn’t wearing her seat belt- another lapse in judgement that calls into question the facts of the whole story here

[Caramelgal]

OK. I can understand that as a high schooler, she wasn’t supposed to be on the elementary school bus in the first place but she claimed she fell ill on the way to school and was catching a ride back so she could get home.

She was supposed to “call in sick” but if she fell ill on her way, what was she supposed to do? Does this kid have a history of truancy or is this just an isolated and unusual event. There are a lot of unanswered questions here.

"She is in trouble with school because she made the wrong decision,"

Even if she had a lapse of good judgment in being on this bus and not going to school or calling in sick, she sure showed a lot of maturity and common sense in a very dangerous situation and she might have saved lives.

…when the driver fell out of her seat after a turn and hit her head.

This is the question I really want answered. How the heck does a school bus driver make a turn so sudden and so violent that she fell out of her seat? Was she avoiding an accident or just driving too fast and recklessly? Is the bus driver under any sort of investigation?

[Paleo Conservative]

What if a kid didn’t have cell phone? How would he or she call in sick? There aren’t that many pay phones around anymore.

[Walkingfeather]

And PE class now consists of Goose stepping lessons. Sheesh glad I home school our kids.

[tom h]

"California Student Stops Out-of-Control School Bus; Gets Detention for Skipping Class"

Seaside, California -- a northern California coastal city. Not surprising.

Smack in the middle of lib-land, where squash passes for brains and the water is spiked with Prozac.

[Pilsner]

When I was in college, a small fire broke out in my dorm. A couple of unidentified students grabbed a fire extinguisher, and put it out before any real damage was done.

At the end of the semester, the guys living on that floor were billed for recharging the fire extinguisher. You see, the school had a written policy that if a fire extinguisher was discharged, and no one knew who did it, the recharge fee was spread across everyone on the floor.

The idea to give students a financial incentive to not discharge fire extingishers as a prank. There was no exception written into the rule for fire extinguishers actually used to put out fires, so, "rules are rules" they guys had to pay.

And they wonder why the alumni don't donate more to the school.

[Hoodlum91]

Wasn’t the driver supposed to be wearing a seatbelt?

[Lizavetta]

Remember that kid in New Orleans that commandeered a bus and drove a bunch of people out of the city during the Hurricane Katrina episode? I don’t remember the details but I do remember his interview and he was a riot. Anybody remember that?

[7thson]

Here is the next question for todays math students - how fast must you be driving in order to fall out of the drivers seat either during or after making a turn?

[Right Wing Assault]

Two different events. You get praise for one, punishment for the other.