[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?

[metmom]

Rouse said she fell ill on the way to school, but instead of calling in sick, she asked the bus driver for a lift back to the bus yard before the accident happened. She must attend Saturday school as punishment for failing to call in sick that day.

I can imagine she was pretty distracted. That would explain why she didn't call in sick.

I'll bet the bus driver knew her, too. Otherwise, I couldn't see a bus driver picking up just anyone.

[AppyPappy]

“Hey girl, let me drive the bus”
“No way you are only 15”
“C’mon what can happen?”

[catman67]

The explanation that I heard was this.

She fell ill on her way to school on the bus. She asked the school bus driver to allow her to return home on the same bus that she was already on. That bus makes a second loop, picking up elementary schoolchildren after it drops off high school students. The bus driver said OK. She was not in a position to call the school and report sick, because she hadn’t arrived back home yet. The accident happened on the way back and she got caught up in the investigation; therefore could not call in sick.

In my opinion, the administrator that made this bone-headed decision needs a public spanking!