There has to be WAY more to this story...
Yes. I reserve comment on this one until ALL the facts are properly reported.
Absolutely. I drove a school bus for 2 years. The reason most schools have video cameras on buses now is for the protection of the driver and or aides. I got my first route because a group of "Christian" school kids burned a Bible on the bus the week before and the drive had a nervous breakdown.
“There has to be WAY more to this story...”
There’s going to have to be an awful lot more to justify punching a kid in the face.
This is assault, and even if one thinks that physical discipline is sometimes warranted that does not consist of punching in the face/head.
There ALWAYS is, isn't there? My Spidey Sense tingled reading this line: "Dickersons' son and several other students were watching a video aboard the bus, which prompted the driver to blow his whistle in anger."
What sort of video? Were they playing it very loud and hooting and distracting the driver? How many is "several other students"? If "several" were watching the video, does that mean many of them were standing up while the bus was in motion? Did any of these "students" strike the driver prior to his alleged assault?
So many questions in a case like this. One clue is always how quickly the parents run to the cops and/or press to get out in front of the story before it's revealed their little angel had some culpability.
I'm sure there is. Some yutes just need a hard backhand these days.
“There has to be WAY more to this story...”
Maybe so, but I find it difficult, absent the kid assaulting the driver, that would justify his actions. Apart from having to defend himself, the driver is in serious trouble.
Sounds like a sadist.
Like the dad whose ex-finance secretly taped “kicking and punching” (not really) his blubbering daughter “for eating carrots”... there is the “real story”... somewhere.