Is a two week suspension from riding the bus appropriate for a child that hides from the bus driver? If the tables were turned wouldn't the mother have been ticked off if the bus driver had forgotten her child? The mother said this was an extreme punishment for a joke. Should she take more responsibility for saying her child was in the wrong? If you would have done this what would your parents have said?
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2007-09-05 11:50:31 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Grade-Schooler
Mine would have been completely ticked off!
2007-09-05 11:50:55 · update #1
This wasn't the bus drivers fault. The driver found the kid after he heard him giggling. I think the concern is the parent is taking no responsibility for her child acting like a brat. Some pranks are never ok.
2007-09-05 12:03:22 · update #2
Well, to put it into completely plain English, this mother thinks her child shouldn't have been punished so extremely for doing something that could have gotten him killed. Children die from accidentally being left in cars, they can die just as easily from accidentally getting locked in a bus. She probably lets her child ride his bike and play in the street too. There are just too many people who have taken this "lax" parenting style to the extreme and the rest of us have to pay for it by tolerating their bratty children and hearing them brag about how special and "gifted" their kids are. If it had been my kid (and I have four - ages 12,8,6 and 3) not only would they have accepted the punishment but they'd have also gotten a spanking and there wouldn't be any cushy car rides to school. They'd be walking (we live near Houston, TX - so at this moment it's nearly 100% humidity, 90's and more often than not raining). ALL children need to learn to respect the rules and regulations by which the rest of society live by.
2007-09-05 12:31:39 · answer #1 · answered by J 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
That is completely nuts. What if there was an emergency and the bus driver needed to make sure all kids were present. The mom shouldn't be thinking this isn't a big deal because it is. It's not the bus driver's fault, it's the child's! When I was 23 and out of college I drove the school bus just for a little extra cash because my event planning business was slow. Anyway, I had this nice friendly 5 year old that rode the bus and she always sat in the seat behind me with her friend. Well one day they thought it'd be funny to scare me while I was driving the bus. They got on one day after school on a stormy Friday afternoon. They were pretty quiet, and I was glad because it was a stormy day. All of the sudden they jump up and scream "BOO!" I almost had a heart attack and crashed into a car infront of me. Luckily only one kid was minorly hurt (he twisted his wrist). The girls got a 5 week detetion, 3 for making me crash the bus and 2 for the little boy's ingery. And 1 of the moms was mad! She said it was just a joke. Yeah a joke that could have gotten me killed. I stopped driving the bus at the end of that year because I couldn't deal with that brat.
Just remember, the child was wrong to hide. That's why my little girls and my niece that lives with me will never ride the bus. My niece walks home from school with friends.
~Taylor
2007-09-05 19:20:02 · answer #2 · answered by Jasmine 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
There are rules for riding the bus. When the rules are broken there are consequences to be met. The mother of this child is just as immature as the child for not taking responsiblity for her child's behavior. But then too many parents are nowadays.
2007-09-06 10:37:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
My mom was a school bus driver for years and years, and I can guarantee that a hiding child was the very least of any problems she experienced.
Who expects a 5-year-old to know what to do on a school bus when school just started and this is probably his first experience riding a bus?
Morons. Their time would have been better spent frisking the high-schoolers for weapons and drugs.
tx mom
2007-09-05 19:01:45 · answer #4 · answered by TX Mom 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
My mom would of beat the school bus drivers a$$.. Thats EXACTLY why I won't let my babies ride the bus I saw that on the new the other day.. And a few months back this boy threw a brick at the school bus and smashed a kindergardener in the side of the head and she was sitting on the bus being good on her way to a field trip...
I don't trust nobody in the care of my children and my mom didn't either...
2007-09-05 18:59:52 · answer #5 · answered by Jesmo 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋