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Posted on 08/27/2026 9:33:41 AM PDT by Red Badger
A California school bus ride home turned into a scene out of a third-world country Monday when furious parents smashed their way onto a Calaveras Unified bus and children started climbing out the windows because the driver refused to let the kids off.
The wild scene unfolded along Highway 49 near Russell Road in Calaveras County after students were held on the stopped bus for about an hour.
According to KCRA 3, the trouble began when a student reportedly tried to climb out a window before the bus had come to a stop.
The driver then pulled over, contacted law enforcement, and ordered the students to remain seated and roll up the windows. The children were reportedly kept aboard for nearly an hour while they waited for deputies to arrive.
Video recorded by a student shows the scene rapidly spiraling out of control as students shouted, parents gathered outside, children squeezed through open windows, and at least one adult climbed into the bus.
One 12-year-old student told KCRA that the children had been loud and excited to get off the bus before the situation escalated.
Nichole Wellington said her frightened son called her from inside the bus. She rushed to the scene and demanded that the driver release him.
“Dude, open the door. Let me have my kid,” Wellington recalled telling the driver. According to Wellington, he refused.
Wellington then instructed her son to climb out through a window.
She argued that the chaos could have been avoided if the driver had simply released children to the parents who had arrived to collect them.
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Literally kidnapping
Do school buses no longer have emergency exit doors in the back?
Emergency exit at rear of bus
Up next ....
CA School Districts to Replace ALL Public School Bus Drivers with H-1B Drivers Who Lost Trucking Jobs
Film at 11.
No, peasant: you fail to understand. Those young comrades are Property of The State. You have only the authority granted you by The State. When The State takes it away, for your safety, you must simply SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP!!!
According to KCRA 3, the trouble began when a student reportedly tried to climb out a window before the bus had come to a stop.
Yeah, multiple counts.
“Third world”, huh? I wonder why. Third world ahos gonna be third world ahos.
Drivers and the school district have liability and great risk to whom they release the child. Imagine if the person demanding the kid was an angry relative, a father with a restraint order against them, or a complete stranger
A story: my neighbor has some kids/grandkids who live within a mile or two of him. They spend a lot of time at grandpa/grandma's house. One the first day of school, returning home, the bus passed grandpa's house. The kid recognized it and demanded to get off the bus. Bus driver thought "that's not on my list." The kid screamed and cried "that's my house!" Driver thought "maybe the dispatcher screwed up, I've seen it before." So he did the same thing. He stopped the bus.
I'm assuming the bus driver was just doing his/her best to follow the regulations.
The jumping kids of Calaveras County.
Some video of incident.
https://www.kcra.com/article/calaveras-county-school-bus-chaos-parent-custody/73526832
I would not bet against you.
And not just H1Bs, plenty of plain old illegals.
< golf clap >
Perfect.
So we have an incident involving the safety of students on a school bus and it took police AN HOUR to respond??
Welcome to Kalifornia.
And an alarm that goes off if it is opened.
“I’m assuming the bus driver was just doing his/her best to follow the regulations.”
What regulation allows you to sit parked for an hour, locking the kids inside? It is nonsense, driver should be fired. He had Hall Monitor Complex and being petty trying to exert control over a bunch of kids.
School bus driving is a difficult job.
It could be that this driver let what little authority he had go to his head. Or it could be that he was just following the (perhaps unwise) safety policies the school district set down.
🤔
The bus driver did the right thing in keeping the kids inside the bus. I can see it now if the driver released the kids and some go missing.
Kate Brown
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