My bus drivers provoking children to fight!!!!!!!

[AhBee01]

As a driver I have no authority on any discipline, all I can do is right the students up, it is then up to the principle to do the discipline! Sometimes the punishment doesn't fit the crime! Most of the kids know it, so they don't care if they get written up! I don't speed, nor would I use my phone, although I have seen bus drivers is other areas do it.
I couldn't imagine encouraging any students to get off the bus and fight, that is terrible, and the students that are fighting on the bus should be no where near each other, siblings or not!

 

[GarlicEater]

Get some video somehow, if your camera phone's not so good, maybe borrow a friend's or something, GET IT ON VIDEO then go to your local TV station or newspaper, the principal etc are just going to hide the problem until some kid's severely hurt and even THEN they'll just say it was an accident, kid wasn't careful etc. These people will NOT protect you kids, the ONLY way something will be done is if the actual video, actual proof, gets onto the media and other PARENTS see it. Put it on YouTube and then send your local TV and newspaper the link, anything, but you need to get the word out there past the "school personnel mafia".

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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In some places the school district mployes the drivers and owns the busses. That is the way it is here. So there is no bus company to speak to. BUT, your point of reporting the driver to his employer is spot on. School principal should also be notified.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Once again, this varies by location. Some areas DO have seat belts in the busses, others do not. Of course that does not mean that fish-tailing is thus safe. Just not AS dangerous. And I do agree that the driver's license needs to be revoked.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

mom'sfolly :

My school district has cameras on buses...I wonder if this district does too.

I hope so.

Waiting to see what comes from the meeting.

I know that many of the busses here have cameras; not sure if all the districts have them though. There was a well publicised fight a few years ago between a bus driver and her daughter (a student) against another student. Driver and daughter said the other student started it, the driver was protecting herself and the daughter was protecting her mother. The camera did not coroberate their story, and I believe the driver was fired and the daughter was suspended or expelled. The other student was not blameless, but her fault was deemed lesser. I don't recall her punishment.​

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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My childrens' school handbooks have always said that transportation via school bus is a privlege, not a right, and that certain misbehavior can and will cause that privilege to be revoked, either temporarily or permanently. Very rarely have we lived where bus trasnportation was allowed (you must be over a certain distance from the school, or have to cross major roads). The only time we've been far enough away (and there were many years of that), we were out of district or they were in a charter school. Neither allowed for transportation, although when out of district, ds was allowed to go home with a friend who rode the bus.

 

[WriterofWords]

Our limits for the riding the bus is 1 mile for elementary and 2 miles for middle and high school; any closer they walk or get taken. First they have to prove the driver is driving poorly, not just say he/she is. Get someone to follow the bus or stand on the side where the bus goes by and film it. Proof gets actions quicker.