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School bus driver didn't stop battling kids, told others to 'clear the aisle and let them fight,'
Penn Live ^ | 04/24/2013

Posted on 04/25/2013 8:16:14 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd

FULL TITLE: School bus driver didn't stop battling kids, told others to 'clear the aisle and let them fight,' police say

ROCHESTER, Pa. — A western Pennsylvania school bus driver has been charged with endangering children after police say he let two students fight instead of intervening.

North Sewickley Township police charged Braden Hollis, of Baden, after viewing surveillance video of the March 4 incident in which police say Hollis can be heard telling other students to "clear the aisle and let them fight."

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I would need more info before passing judgement.
1 posted on 04/25/2013 8:16:14 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd

Bum fights revisited on a school bus.


2 posted on 04/25/2013 8:18:28 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (IÂ’m not a Republican, IÂ’m a conservative! Pubbies haven't been conservative since before T.R.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Me too, but that’s pretty much the way they settle things out Riverside way.


3 posted on 04/25/2013 8:21:55 AM PDT by Ramcat (Thank You American Veterans)
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To: Responsibility2nd

First rule of bus fight club...


4 posted on 04/25/2013 8:22:11 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (So?)
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To: Responsibility2nd

That’s pretty much how it was done when I was in school, the Coach would stand back and let the boys go at it, until one was on the ground or obviously losing, then he would step in and break it up.


5 posted on 04/25/2013 8:24:13 AM PDT by apillar
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To: Trailerpark Badass

And you know, sending your kid to public school is bad enough, but sticking them in these rolling cage fights is straight up child abuse.


6 posted on 04/25/2013 8:24:34 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (So?)
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To: Responsibility2nd

A school bus driver in our neighborhood got into substantial trouble when some middle school boys successfully goaded her into showing them her nipple rings.

(response from the school was “you will never see her on your child’s route again”. Translation: “we’ve transferred her and made her some other parents’ problem, since her union won’t let us fire her”.)


7 posted on 04/25/2013 8:25:14 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Responsibility2nd

Seems like a reasonable response. I guess it depends on how big the kids were, etc. Back in my day, it wasn’t uncommon to let a couple kids go at it, and tire themselves out, before sending them to the office for a few swats.


8 posted on 04/25/2013 8:25:15 AM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: apillar

LOL, well, that ain’t what’s going on now.


9 posted on 04/25/2013 8:25:51 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (So?)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I know of an inner-city public school in which the children show up after the weekend with black eyes and bruises all over.

When asked how they got bruised, they enthusiastically answer “Fight Club!”

“What’s Fight Club?”

“That’s where Daddy takes me to fight with other Third Graders. If I win, Daddy gets all the money.”

Yes, it’s been reported to CPS, and has gone underground. The kids still show up bruised, but they keep their mouths shut.


10 posted on 04/25/2013 8:26:39 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (All observant Muslims want to kill you. If they don't, they are not really Muslims.)
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To: brownsfan

I’m thinking that the bus driver might be a retiree or just unable or unwilling to break up a fight.

What if these were middle school or high school kids? They might beat HIM up. Or what if he hurt or harmed a child while breaking up the fight? He would be charged and sued.

I’m sorry, but they pay him to drive a bus. Not break up fights.


11 posted on 04/25/2013 8:29:42 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I agree. More info needed.

If this was clearly a bigger kid pummeling a smaller, meeker one, it should have been stopped. If it was an evenly matched scuffle, I agree w. the driver not stopping it. This nanny state business has to stop!


12 posted on 04/25/2013 8:36:26 AM PDT by ObozoMustGo2012
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To: Responsibility2nd

At the same school mentioned above, the Third Graders are so big and strong that the athletic adult women on site cannot physically confront many of them for fear of great bodily harm.

For example, if a kid walks out of school, they follow him, but don’t try to restrain him.

These kids are huge and strong. Your EBT money is keeping them well fed, if not well mannered.


13 posted on 04/25/2013 8:37:04 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (All observant Muslims want to kill you. If they don't, they are not really Muslims.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

We had a teacher in high school that also drove a bus; he got hit in the eye while wearing glasses and lost his eye. The 17 year old punk who did it got 10 years in the big house for it.


14 posted on 04/25/2013 8:51:21 AM PDT by Arkansas Toothpick
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To: Uncle Miltie
“What’s Fight Club?”

“That’s where Daddy takes me to fight with other Third Graders. If I win, Daddy gets all the money.”


I'm tempted to run with a Michael Vick joke here, but likely it'd just get pulled by the mods.


15 posted on 04/25/2013 8:52:08 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Yes, and the offending comment would dog you for the rest of your life...


16 posted on 04/25/2013 9:02:26 AM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of oppression and Democrats use them. Gun confiscation enables tyranny.)
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To: Arkansas Toothpick
Still, generally it's not a bad policy to let kids work out their own pecking order.

Of course one should intervene where there is a gross mismatch, or risk of injury or a pattern of bullying.

Mostly with kids scuffles build self confidence and mutual respect.

17 posted on 04/25/2013 9:07:18 AM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of oppression and Democrats use them. Gun confiscation enables tyranny.)
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To: brownsfan

The driver probably knew both kids well, disliked them both, and saw his daily dose of irritation being knocked down a little without him having to lift a finger.


18 posted on 04/25/2013 9:08:33 AM PDT by rlmorel ("We'll drink to good health for them that have it coming." Boss Spearman in Open Range)
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To: Responsibility2nd

A while back, two eighth-grade boys got into it at my daughter’s middle school (she is also in 8th grade). It took 5 teachers to break them up—almost all male, and these weren’t wimpy men teachers.

I want to know what they are feeding 14 year old boys these days. Some of the kids my daughter goes to school with are almost bigger than my husband who is 6 foot 3.


19 posted on 04/25/2013 9:09:57 AM PDT by Hoosier Catholic Momma (How long till my Arkansas drawl fades into the twang of southeast Ohio?)
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To: null and void

I think the crap most bus drivers probably have to go through isn’t worth them getting involved.

You break em up and a kid gets a cut that needs stiches when you do it, you lose your job.

You do nothing, you lose your job.


20 posted on 04/25/2013 9:12:00 AM PDT by rlmorel ("We'll drink to good health for them that have it coming." Boss Spearman in Open Range)
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