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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 379939" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>I can easily see how the guy was at the end of his rope and finally just exploded. Makes you wonder why the school district has done nothing and why the bus driver hasn't taken steps to put a stop to it! They need a bus monitor, or even volunteer parents if there's no money in the budget for paid monitors.</p><p> </p><p>In our rural area, when my kids were in school all the kids rode the same bus, from the kindergartners to the ones in high school, which sometimes caused problems for the little ones. The driver, JW, had been around for so long that the parents of many of these kids had the same bus driver and they backed him up 100%! It might have been "rough justice", and they could never get away with it now, but his tactics worked and NOBODY acted up for very long on his bus! He kept a big, heavy stick under the drivers seat. If somebody acted up, he would stop the bus on the side of the road, pull out his stick, wave it around and threaten to do severe bodily harm to the guilty parties! He never actually <em>used</em> the stick but they all had it in their minds that he just <em>might</em> and it worked! And if nobody would 'fess up as to who the guilty party was, that bus would sit right there on the side of the road until somebody did! And he did not care how long they sat there either! Then the parents of the guilty party would get a phone call from him that evening, and it was a sure thing that if they acted up on JW's bus, they'd be in big trouble at home too because the parents backed him up! Can you imagine that happening now? I can't either! But I NEVER worried about my kids when they were on JW's bus!</p><p> </p><p>When he finally retired, he was replaced by one who listened to music on ear phones and was completely oblivious to what was going on behind him, and then the problems started. When my son started school, he was little and skinny and quiet, a natural "target" for the bullies. My daughter was five years older and weighed less than 100 pounds at the time, but she had a mouth on her that wouldn't stop and was NOT someone you wanted to mess with when she got mad! Anyone who wanted to pick on her little brother had to deal with her first and they were all afraid to! She once pulled a kid twice her size off of her brother and slung him back in his seat! Of course, she shouldn't have had to do this ... For several years this skinny, mouthy little girl acted as the "enforcer" on the school bus, and they really missed her when she didn't ride the bus any more! Sad, isn't it!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 379939, member: 1883"] I can easily see how the guy was at the end of his rope and finally just exploded. Makes you wonder why the school district has done nothing and why the bus driver hasn't taken steps to put a stop to it! They need a bus monitor, or even volunteer parents if there's no money in the budget for paid monitors. In our rural area, when my kids were in school all the kids rode the same bus, from the kindergartners to the ones in high school, which sometimes caused problems for the little ones. The driver, JW, had been around for so long that the parents of many of these kids had the same bus driver and they backed him up 100%! It might have been "rough justice", and they could never get away with it now, but his tactics worked and NOBODY acted up for very long on his bus! He kept a big, heavy stick under the drivers seat. If somebody acted up, he would stop the bus on the side of the road, pull out his stick, wave it around and threaten to do severe bodily harm to the guilty parties! He never actually [I]used[/I] the stick but they all had it in their minds that he just [I]might[/I] and it worked! And if nobody would 'fess up as to who the guilty party was, that bus would sit right there on the side of the road until somebody did! And he did not care how long they sat there either! Then the parents of the guilty party would get a phone call from him that evening, and it was a sure thing that if they acted up on JW's bus, they'd be in big trouble at home too because the parents backed him up! Can you imagine that happening now? I can't either! But I NEVER worried about my kids when they were on JW's bus! When he finally retired, he was replaced by one who listened to music on ear phones and was completely oblivious to what was going on behind him, and then the problems started. When my son started school, he was little and skinny and quiet, a natural "target" for the bullies. My daughter was five years older and weighed less than 100 pounds at the time, but she had a mouth on her that wouldn't stop and was NOT someone you wanted to mess with when she got mad! Anyone who wanted to pick on her little brother had to deal with her first and they were all afraid to! She once pulled a kid twice her size off of her brother and slung him back in his seat! Of course, she shouldn't have had to do this ... For several years this skinny, mouthy little girl acted as the "enforcer" on the school bus, and they really missed her when she didn't ride the bus any more! Sad, isn't it! [/QUOTE]
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