the folks here deal with rowdy kids better.
Probably so but it doesn't take much to reverse that. All that's needed is for you to fail to deal with it once and it grows to the point that it's not correctable without drastic action like police riding on the buses and making arrests.
Joan -- Here in Atlanta, the MARTA buses DO have MARTA officers on many of them, as do the trains. Despite local whining, MARTA is quite safe. The officers do make arrests. We don't call that drastic, we call that law enforcement. ;-)
FWIW, the school kids ride school buses.