Posted on 11/29/2013 3:09:33 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
Thank God there wasn’t an accident. I can just imagine the panic those kids felt.
I’m amazed no one was killed and that the bus driver didn’t wreck the bus. Those poor kids.
Ohio bus driver charged with being drunk while driving kids home from school
Columbus police and the school district found out something was wrong because Denton was about 45 minutes behind schedule while driving a route for Southwood Elementary School.
The district activated a GPS to help locate the bus and the police did the rest.
Amazing. I remember a time when a bunch of us roudy kids were giving the bus driver a hard time once. He stopped the bus and told all the kids to get out. All of them. He was fired and charged with abandonment. Never saw him again, but I feel a little guilty about it.
Back in the fifties when I went to school the bus driver would stop and pout unruly kids off the bus.
I walked home more than once.
GPS came in handy for this.
It always used to aggravate me from my school days to my parenting days when ALL the kids were punished for the bad/wrong actions of a few. The same principle exists in the making of rules, regulations, and laws in city, state, and federal government.
There is one useful strategy in punishing everyone for the misdeeds of a few: turning up the peer pressure. Other than that it really makes no sense.
It always used to aggravate me from my school days to my parenting days when ALL the kids were punished for the bad/wrong actions of a few. The same principle exists in the making of rules, regulations, and laws in city, state, and federal government.
Government declared its independence of us, the people a long time ago. Government devotes itself to exercises in extortion and punitive restriction for the benefit of self-appointed "better" people.
That brings back some memories. When I went everyone rode the same bus, 1st-12th. I don’t remember the exact year but it had to be around my 2nd or 3rd year of elementary and the image of the male bus driver (that’s there was then) pulling over and plucking a much older student out of his seat, I mean up and over the back of the next seat and tossing the kid out the door is forever burned in my memory.
Years later the man up the hill was our bus driver and kept the bus at his house. This was the 1st stop in the morning and the last at the end of the day. When it got cold out I used to start the bus before old Harry rolled out of his house in the morning. The 1st time or two he was a little pissed but soon got used to it.
In the early 1970’s, our bus driver used to drive extra fast so we could all get airborne at the speedbumps!!!!
Yeah, and two wrongs don’t make a right.
By the way, this also reminds me of a bus trip skiing once. On the way back, the driver was driving like a maniac through town, and all the passengers were beginning to show signs of terror. Even after skiing like a maniac shortly before, I can understand what those poor kids must have gone through.
The cheap thrills of bus rides are no longer just limited to third world countries.
We used to have a bus driver (elementary school) who would, if he got back into town with the kids a little early (this was rural stuff,) park the bus, leave it running, and head into the local cafe for a bit while we waited and just sort of horsed around. He parked in the same place every time... Right on a train-track. In any case I pointed this out to one of the teachers at some point, “it never happened again,” and I suffered no small retribution from the driver.
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