#1) If A small business does something like this, there’s calls for ta, feathering and death threats.
#2) The government does this and there’s calls for empathy for the poor ole’ underpaid bus driver.
Homeschoolers never have these problems.
my kids rode the bus once and that was enough of that.
There are regions in the US where the police have the ability to commandeer your ring doorbell for enforcement purposes. It’s surveillance state equipment. I’m glad the kids were safe but I don’t want police watching cameras throughout the neighborhood, who comes and goes in your house etc.
Praising God these children found safe havens until they could be reunited with their families.
Yes, even little kids can be coached on what to do in situations like this. And there are ways to hide the parents’ contact info in the kid’s clothing, just in case.
Bus driver should be keel hauled.
I’m only in my 50s, and I WALKED to school (or biked when there was no snow) every.single.day. even in kindergarten
When exactly did it happen that every child needed a government taxi-service to get to school?
Kids who need that level of checking (which, yes, would be most 5-year-olds) should not be riding school buses.
We rode the bus. Every year there were little snafus but not major and they were quickly cleared up. Broke down and effed up is what this country is. Totally.
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?
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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 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.
I read a bunch of the replies on her TikTok vid, and all of the replies here.
I was shocked, I tell ya, SHOCKED when not one single poster asked this question.
Why didn’t these kids know their address and mom’s or dad’s phone number? Around these parts, kids have to know that before entering even pre-school!
A lot of the replies to her suggested an air tag in the kids’ bookbags; which is a good idea.
But still, didn’t the parents have a duty to teach their kids the very basic info?? I think they did, but obviously, I’m among the very tiny minority.