Posted on 09/03/2009 3:50:33 AM PDT by prisoner6
LAS CRUCES, N.M. -- What would you do if your child was forced to get off a school bus at the wrong stop?
That is the situation one Las Cruces mother had to grapple with Wednesday, when her 8-year-old daughter was let off on a busy street nearly half a mile from her usual stop.
Eight-year-old Destiny Maciel got off the bus at Valley and Tashiro, a busy intersection where there is no place to stop and ask for directions.
Destiny's mother Amanda said that didn't stop a bus driver from telling her daughter it was her last chance to get off the bus.
Destiny is a third-grader at East Picacho Elementary, and she is supposed to get dropped off at a daycare center after school.
"At one point when she told the bus driver, 'This isn't my stop', she told her, 'That's tough. This is my last stop'," Amanda said.
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Says it all. Morons are running rampant.
prisoner6
After what happened to Jaycee Dugard ...
prisoner6
He does not care, it is not his kid and he is off the clock...to him it is Miller Time.
Besides...I just bet he is union.
Murdering union thug.
That would be a She
My first thought was that this 8-year-old had somehow crossed -12bama, and was being put under the proverbial bus...
Ping-list?
(and Oy Vey.)
The 2nd year they not only fired the bus driver, but the person who made the lists. Also, the 2nd time, I was so proud of my 2nd grade son, he knew what to do and lead the whole bunch of screaming and crying kids 4 blocks back to the correct bus stop.
As a parent you never forget that feeling when you first realize your child is missing.
Wow, when I was a bus driver if the parents weren’t home for the younger ones, we would take them back to the school for them to call their parents!
Unbelievable. SEIU member? Here in Fairfax County, if the child is too young and no one is at the stop to get them, the bus takes the kid back to school and the parents/guardians are called.
Intelligence is not taken under consideration when hiring school bus drivers...the education cartel is corrupt to the core.
prisoner6
"If you can keep your head when others about you are losing theirs..."
How very proud you must be of him.
I don't have my Kipling down word for word. Sorry, I should have checked the quote first.
And for dropping an 8 year old off the bus at the wrong place, we'll consider this your resignation notice.
great tag line!
I used to work as a substitute teacher. One day at dismissal time (in a second grade classroom), I noticed a parent note taped to the door, saying on Tuesdays, Student Doe is supposed to ride bus Y instead of his regular bus X.
It was Tuesday, so I said, "Hey, Student Doe, it's Tuesday, you're going on bus Y, right?" He said, "No, That note is old. I don't do that anymore."
So, do I take the word of a second grader over a parent note that had no date on it? It was time to get the kids on the bus, so when we walked out, I found the Principal and explained that I have a note which says one thing, a kid that says another, what would you like me to do?
She told me to hold on to the kid for a moment and she would be right back. I assumed she was going into the office to call an emergency number and ask where the kid was supposed to go. Oh, that was too much to hope for. She returned and told me, "That teacher has a sub today."
No kidding. In the end I was told to send the kid on one of the two buses. It doesn't really matter because if it is wrong, the bus driver will just bring him back.
First, this is stupid. Second it is untrue. If the student actually gets off the bus (which seems likely as he thinks this is where he is supposed to be), the bus driver will leave. Once the student discovers he's in the wrong place (by perhaps there being no one at this place he thinks he's supposed to be) the bus will be gone. The child may be left alone, and depending upon the goodwill of neighbors, may have no assistance getting to where he is supposed to be. Meanwhile, at the place he is supposed to be, he is a no-show and someone will probably be worried about that.
But it doesn't really matter... And this attitude is the reason I no longer work in education.
He/She ....have you seen some of what passes for bus drivers lately? In my day...you knew if it was a he or a she....
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