My sixth grade bus driver was a tough old battle axe named Miss Hutto.
She would have ripped their lungs out and dragged their sorry remains to the principal's office.
Sexual assault (or close to it) of young girls by a group of 12-14 year old boys on a school bus. No, this just would not have happened where I grew up. Even the "bad boys" in my class would have been shocked and disgusted by this behavior. I never saw an adult respond to something like this when I was a kid, and I don't know what they would have done.
I wonder if the other students on the bus tried to stop it.