If what you say were true, every school bus and every 7th grade classroom and every home with 7th grade kids would be a chaotic as that bus, but that is not the case.
The only difference is that the bus had a bus monitor that was not ready for duty.
The obvious answer is that this particular bullying was a local phenomenon, but so what? She was hired to be a figurehead: that is the overwhelming witness of how schools disempower their adults today, or else give them nothing but Weapons of Zero Tolerance meaning the kid gets bounced out for having a breath mint. (A foul mouth is usually overlooked, however.)
You’re probably envious of her for having gotten the sympathy she did, and are certainly being an ass.
You obviously have never seen a bus in the last dozen years. It is the case to greater and lesser degrees. Do a search. This one got big press. Most don’t. Then if you are still in willful denial, go talk to teachers etc who quit because of the amimals they were not allowed to control.
But of course you’ll condemn them too and not the system that favors the animal. Pretty liberal thing to do I guess, but we are who we are.
I agree with both of you.