Posted on 08/31/2023 8:08:38 AM PDT by Red Badger
The nanny state
I still hold that two bus rides plus kindergarten are too much to ask of a little fella like that.
This story is several days old. I would like to know what happened to the bus driver.
Public school kids don’t have enough sense to know where they live?
I’m with you. I started walking in pre school. My kids walked a single mile in the mornings with a neighborhood group of about eleven kids they loved it. We organized afternoon pick ups.limit government involvement as much as possible.
5 YEAR OLD KINDERGARTNERS FIRST DAY AT SCHOOL...............
Hopefully he’s no longer employed as a bus driver...................
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Don’t know what their house looks like? Anyway, bus driver’s negligence.
So, two five year olds were lost and ringing doorbells, and nobody even opened a door and tried to help?
We walked home.
And … “Oklahoma mother says her 5-year-old son and her boyfriend’s 5-year-old daughter.”
I see the problem.
Not The Bee has some liberal nanny state staffers.
I was a school bus driver. One year, 2005, the first day of school, I let off a 1st grader at the wrong stop. One stop early. Had about 70 kids on board, still, totally my fault and responsibility. The kid made it home with little delay. Got chewed on real good by the boss. Could have been a lot worse.
Also found a 6-year-old sleeping in the back of my bus after I had completed my stops and had parked back at the bus yard. Anytime you left the bus after having kids on board, whether it was one kid or 8o, you walked back to the back door, looking at and under all seats.
It was dark. I walked back and all of a sudden, this little head poked up in the very back as I was about halfway down the aisle. Brought him up to sit next to me and informed dispatch I was “goin back out”. By that time the cops had been called and a full-scale search was on. Took me about 15 mins to get to his home. By the time I walked him to the door everyone knew he was coming back on my bus. There were two cops standing there with his mother. I made light of it just saying he must have been tired. The cops gave me a death stare. They wanted me out of the boy’s presence immediately and I walked away. All my tapes were reviewed and I’m sure the boy was interviewed.
It was a great job, except for episodes like this.
In one school district, out of many I attended, the busses were owned by the drivers and they contracted with the school board.
The bus drivers were very strict and told us so. If we acted up or defaced the seats in any way we would be kicked off the bus permanently and the parents would have to pay for any damages........................
My mom had me walk home the first day of first grade, I turned the corner and had no earthly idea where I was. She had pinned a card with my name and address to my coat. A lady heard me crying and came out of her house and walked me home. Shocking how careless my mom was.
I see help wanted ads for school bus drivers. The pay is good, but I would never want that job.
In this case, the parents have a car, and they weren’t at work. They were waiting with their car for their children at the bus stop.
Why wait at the bus stop? Who not pick the children up at school themselves?
In Texas it’s a whole new ball game with millions of criminals crossing our borders. A few years back men in pickup trucks were stopping to “talk” to children as they were being dismissed from school. Nobody in their right mind would let a child walk home from school anymore. Open borders have made Texas HELL.
Yep, it's definitely ruled out for a retirement destination for that reason only.
LOL. My mother never got involved this either. Of course, I had older brothers and sisters, being the 1970s, there was an army of kids in the neighborhood, all going to the grammar school, and back home, at the same time.
It helps if you like kids. I do. If you don’t like kids the job is hell.
I enjoyed the split shift. No heavy lifting. Plenty of down time on the clock. Could work 20 hours to almost 40 hours a week at my whim. YMMV.
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