Posted on 03/17/2008 5:40:30 AM PDT by metmom
SEASIDE, Calif. — A 15-year-old girl who stopped an out-of-control school bus she was riding on was handed a Saturday detention instead because she was skipping school.
Marina High School student Amanda Rouse was on a bus with 40 elementary school students Wednesday morning when the driver fell out of her seat after a turn and hit her head.
Rouse jumped up and applied the brakes, bringing the bus to a halt after striking two parked cars. No one was injured.
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The explanation that I heard was this.
She fell ill on her way to school on the bus. She asked the school bus driver to allow her to return home on the same bus that she was already on. That bus makes a second loop, picking up elementary schoolchildren after it drops off high school students. The bus driver said OK. She was not in a position to call the school and report sick, because she hadn’t arrived back home yet. The accident happened on the way back and she got caught up in the investigation; therefore could not call in sick.
In my opinion, the administrator that made this bone-headed decision needs a public spanking!
In our district, if you don’t call in to tell them your child is out sick, you get a call from THEM about 10 in the morning asking if you know that they aren’t in school.
we don’t know how many times this kid has skipped class
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We don’t know how many times this prisoner has escaped from prison.
And PE class now consists of Goose stepping lessons. Sheesh glad I home school our kids.
Does this prisoner have a history of escaping or is this just and isolated and unusual event.
Seaside, California -- a northern California coastal city. Not surprising.
Smack in the middle of lib-land, where squash passes for brains and the water is spiked with Prozac.
At the end of the semester, the guys living on that floor were billed for recharging the fire extinguisher. You see, the school had a written policy that if a fire extinguisher was discharged, and no one knew who did it, the recharge fee was spread across everyone on the floor.
The idea to give students a financial incentive to not discharge fire extingishers as a prank. There was no exception written into the rule for fire extinguishers actually used to put out fires, so, "rules are rules" they guys had to pay.
And they wonder why the alumni don't donate more to the school.
Nah, those pesky seatbelts are just for us common folk.
>> OK. I can understand that as a high schooler, she wasn’t supposed to be on the elementary school bus in the first place but she claimed she fell ill on the way to school and was catching a ride back so she could get home. <<
Once she gets on the bus, she is the responsibility of the school. No need to call in; once she’s on the bus, she’s getting to the school. What bus driver in their right mind would say, “You’re feeling sick so suddenly? Why, sure, I’ll drop you off, alone, away from both home and school!”
She must have gotten to school grounds. And I never would have thought of arriving at the school, and then leaving without checking in with the nurse.
Wasn’t the driver supposed to be wearing a seatbelt?
Remember that kid in New Orleans that commandeered a bus and drove a bunch of people out of the city during the Hurricane Katrina episode? I don’t remember the details but I do remember his interview and he was a riot. Anybody remember that?
Some people just never seem to realize that the rules don’t always HAVE to be enforced.
Which is why, I suppose, those people are promoted to administrative positions.
Yes, and they were going to charge him with stealing a school bus, even though he got permission from the police, saved people’s lives, saved the school buses life.....
Here is the next question for todays math students - how fast must you be driving in order to fall out of the drivers seat either during or after making a turn?
Not to mention the lack of mention of any action against tbe bus driver. I mean how fast does a school bus driver have to be taking a turn to have it throw her out of her seat?
I suspect there’s something we’re not being told about the driver as well. Absence seizure? Fell asleep?
Two different events. You get praise for one, punishment for the other.
You don’t have to get punishment. She didn’t sneak on board; she asked and the driver made the decision and gave her a lift. She was doing the girl a favor.
Would anyone have been happier if the girl had been refused and forced to get somewhere herself while she was sick?
Doesn’t matter how she got where. It matters that she didn’t let the school know where she was. All she had to do was call the school or have a parent call and explain what was going on. Not hard to do. Lots of people do it every day.
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