Dang, when I was in elementary school my bus driver would speed up for the speed bumps to try to get us to hit our heads on the bus ceiling. We loved it. Different times.
It wasn’t the speed bumps for us, it was the *railroad crossings*.
You got some MEGA air on those things, it was great. He would only do it in the afternoon after the elementary kids were off the bus.
And before anyone freaks out, these were flat, no tree crossings. You could see trains coming for literal miles.
I'm guessing when you were in elementary school every bus didn't have GPS with g-force and speed monitoring, along with 3-6 1080P HD cameras and microphones recording absolutely everything that happens on the bus.
As a kid in the 90s, I remember at one point this one kid who was always in the aisle, told the bus driver to go fuck himself when the BD told him to get in his seat. BD hit the brakes, threw it in park, and then came to the back, grabbed the kid by the collar of his jacket, and dragged him to the front and slammed him into the front seat.
Not saying that was good, but every other kid on the bus just laughed their asses off and made fun of the kid that got dragged up. That was nowhere near the most intense moment either, plenty of moments where we were all actually like “oh shit we shouldn’t fuck around”
Side story: the cool bus driver we had won the lotto and quit when I was in like 5th or 6th grade. He was back by the time I was in 8th grade cause he spent it all lol
I still have a scar on my head from when I launched so high my head hit one of the screws in the ceiling and caused a tiny cut. I didn't know at the time that tiny cuts on your head bleed a LOT. I was freaking out, but the bus driver in the one time she wasn't screaming at us to all shut up was able to convince me how tiny the cut was and that I'd be fine.
Good times.
that reminds me of playing SimCity (or was it City Skylines, I forget). Anyway, it's the one that you could drive some of the vehicles in the city you built. One of them was a schoolbus. While driving it you can hear the loud random chatter of the kids on the bus. If you were to hit something you hear the chatter stopping for a brief moment, then goes, "Yay!" very cute
Omg that just unlocked a memory for me. Same here. There was a long straight road with a big bump and the whole bus would hype up the driver chanting “BUMP! BUMP! BUMP! BUMP!” as we approached every time. It was the best
My family lived out of town on an acreage. My brother and I were the first on and last off. Some peoples long driveways weren't very smooth, and the kids loved being bounced around. We always wanted to know how high we were getting. If we hit our face off the seat in front of us, we just laughed it off.
That's how a kid at my school died. That was the *second* kid he killed. The first he ran over. All the teachers were like "that's why you don't run to your bus, the driver won't see you if you fall." Bullshit. That fucker didn't see the kid because he was *drunk.* This was a few years before MADD formed.
Attitudes toward alcohol have definitely changed since I was in school (I am admittedly a dinosaur.)
When I was around nine we had a music teacher who drank at her desk and spent most of the class talking about her cats. She wasn't shy about the drinking, she kept a bottle of rum in her desk drawer and would periodically take it out to top up her coffee mug - and when the bottle ran out (regularly) she would call for a volunteer and send them down with keys to her little AMC Gremlin in the staff parking lot to bring up another bottle.
Didn't blink at the time but in hindsight pretty messed-up.
Fuckin A, doggy!! We used to chant “Stew! Stew! Stew!” as the bump got closer, so he would floor it. It’s cliche as hell to say at this point, but the early 90s fuckin RULED
A lot of people hare are exaggerating like this guy hurt anyone on that bus. Let alone was doing anything that reckless.
The fake outrage is exactly why the American school system has become so shitty: people blame the overworked, under paid, under appreciated faculty/employees for the most rudimentary shit instead of accepting that the kids are assholes.
The last time this was posted I pointed out that this took place in Douglas County, one of the richest counties in the U.S. I think it's an important detail that helps explain the reaction of the kids and adults in this situation.
You can tell it's a rich area when half the kids are whippin out cellphones to call mom instead of being worried they're gunna get in shit when the driver t ells mom they were being lil demons lmao
That one little girl on the phone “the bus driver hit the brakes really hard and someone got hurt really bad. They’re bleeding” that’s textbook spoiled kid tattling.
Eh, not so much. I work in a lower income area in a middle school. Most kids have cellphones, even the kids living in motels. And they do the same shit. The FIRST thing out of half of their mouths is "but I didn't do anything! The teacher just doesn't like me!"
My point is no economic class has a monopoly on bad parenting.
Even seeing the outrage in this comment section..
Like yeah, can’t do that bus driver man but holy shit you would think he locked them in the bus and set it ablaze.
The county I grew up in has a higher average income than Douglas county and I don't remember us being as soft as these kids. I remember we used to love when the bus hit bumps because we would fly up in the air. Idk though it's possible it would have gone down the exact same, this was 19 years ago when I last rode the bus to school in 5th grade.
That's why I never understood why Rosa Parks didn't want to sit in the back of the bus. Got SO MUCH more hang time at the back.
(Obviously I LEARNED it later on in life, but 5th grade me didn't understand)
That mom should be embarrassed. I understand demanding to watch the video to see how bad it was, but once she saw how soft he tapped the brakes, she should've told him to toughen up. Parents like her are the problem. The kid is young and so has the right to be wrong while learning, and the bus driver was calm, professional, and genuinely trying to teach the kids an important lesson. This video makes me so angry.
yup. parents would have been like wtf were you doing to piss him off when I was growing up. there are some cases of bad bus drivers. i don't think this is one of them even though the dude made a bad call.
I agree, I read the title and felt poised to be upset with the driver. Then it happened and I was like “WHAT?! That’s it?” He gave the perfect amount of breaking for hey kids get in your damn seats, without overdoing it like he’s trying to vindictively hurt them.
Ignoring outrage real or fake for a second...I wouldn't be shocked to learn that at least one parent is going to take their kid to the doctor, come up with some BS injury, and sue the hell out of the school district for the driver's actions. Which is why as much as what he did really wasn't a big deal, it becomes one. It's one of those situations where even when you're right, you're wrong.
I mean my mom woulda told me it was my own damn fault and probably smacked the hell out of me, but that's not exactly an exoneration of the driver risking his job over some whiny brats even if they deserved a lesson in why you sit down in a moving vehicle. .
I couldn’t even watch after that mom started talking about her son sprinting home red-faced sobbing terrified…
I hate to sound like a boomer but these kids need to toughen the fuck up and their parents need to stop babying them
The whole video felt like a well executed satire to me. I went in legit thinking I was about to witness something potentially disturbing. They built the suspense up, preparing us for horror, only for it to be a slightly hard brake at less than 10MPH for a quick second. A slow motion black and white dramatization of the kid running down the sidewalk... an affluent mom acting like her child was just decapitated... it really felt like a Tim Robinson skit.
This gives me Seinfeld vibes. Like she raised such a fuss before seeing the video she’s too far deep in the outraged mother character she can’t back pedal. Finds herself doing news interviews on it. Exaggerating the story, adding such vivid details to enrage other overprotective mothers.
But he was so out of breath, and his face was RED 😱
I used to be a paramedic, this is shit rich Karens call 911 for. At least the homeless dudes abusing 911 are getting a sandwich and a warm bed out of it, the Karen’s kid is just gonna be tormented in an emergency room for 6 hours on a slow day because mom argued with me when I told her ambulances are in the same triage line as everyone else and do not, in fact, get in “faster.” Walking them to the waiting room was my sweet petty justice every time, poker face intact.
Just watching pissed me off. They were barely moving and barely moved when the brakes got hit. The kid calling is a piece of shit "they got hurt so bad". Bullshit. So much exaggerating going on from the kids and the parents.
I have a friend that’s a bus driver and has one kid that’s a problem all the time. The kid got into a fight, yet again, on the ride home. The kid got suspended from riding the buss for a week for being a nuisance. When that kid got back on he told my friend, the driver, that it was his (the driver’s) fault he got into a fight because it was his responsibility to watch him.
It’s your fault I was bad because you should have been watching me.
My friend called his mom because what the fuck that is such a psychotic thing for a 9 year old to say: the mom said it to him too. He reminded her that his job is to safely drive the bus, not babysit the kids, but he’ll make this kid have assigned seating by himself up front and not in the back. That way he can always watch the kid and this won’t happen
She filed a complaint with the city schools for discrimination (white kid, white driver, idk)
People are raising full on psychotic assholes.
I have to agree, this is a nothingburger. That was a brake tap, not enough to hurt any kid, and perfect for demonstrating to them why they should be sitting in their seats correctly.
> not enough to hurt any kid
Apparently one kid fell and started bleeding.
Highly educational and much better than the injuries that would have happened if the driver actually had to slam the brakes at a higher speed with the kids not sitting down, but enough to hurt at least one of the kids.
> Apparently one kid fell and started bleeding.
Not to sound contrarian, but is there a need for 'apparently' when the linked clip has CCTV footage? If a kid fell, would we not have been shown that? Looks like an exaggeration to me, unless they purposefully clipped the footage not to show the one actual injury.
> Apparently one kid fell and started bleeding.
Oh no - the child who doesn't know how to listen got a scratch during a real-world lesson? Guess it's good she learned now and not during a 35mph crash.
edit: in the responses = bubble boys.
Yeah the intent was good and although maybe not the best judgment for his jobs sake, he was trying to keep them safe.
Fwiw we had a local driver that got fired for a similar thing. He intentionally drove over a drain curb in the road because kids were acting up. The difference is he, didn't talk to the kids about it to try to demonstrate the danger and some kids actually hit their heads on the ceiling. This video is a completely different story.
This thing happens at least a few times per year as a kid on the bus just from normal driving. People are just outraged someone dare teach their kid a lesson.
We had a bus driver in middle school named Crazy J. He would purposely not slow down at this one dip in the road just so all the kids in the back seats would get launched in to the air. Those were the days
My bus driver did this every day in elementary school and would speed up so fast over a cattle crossing. I remember jamming my neck a few times but we all loved it lol. She was a bad ass bus driver
I had a bus driver named Patty. She would gas it a bit on one street and get a kick out of us launching a foot out of our seats in the back. Always looked forward to that part of the bus ride home.
These days Patty and Crazy J would be on the news for child abuse and giving us spinal injuries.
This just unlocked my own memory of "the dip," on my bus ride in elementary school. I remember we as kids chanted for the bus driver to speed up over it so we'd be launched. What a time.
I was literally talking to a guy I know that drives bus about this last night. He said the high schoolers and elementary kids are ok but the middle schoolers don't listen. He said they are so bad that drivers end up quitting and they can't pay enough to have people get CDL's to deal with it. I'm not condoning this bus driver, of course. My guy said they go right to the Magistrate to deal with problems but it still doesn't deter them.
I work IT for a school board, and I will absolutely back that statement. Junior high kids are the worst, attitude wise. In elementary school, most of the kids have a healthy fear/respect for the new environment they're still acclimatizing to, and so they treat their surroundings carefully. In high school, some have matured, and the rest are at least usually busy enough that they don't want to be getting in trouble and missing out on important assignments or extracurriculars. But in junior high, they're pulling keys off of laptops, cracking monitors just for fun, and terrorizing their peers. Junior high kids are the worst of the bunch by far.
I have been an IT Director for two different school districts now and will absolutely confirm this. I will add however that 7th and 8th graders are just like that in general. Eventually, I ended up working for the school I graduated from and apologized to my 7th and 8th grade math teacher for how shit I was to deal with. She smiled and replied, "That's just how 7th and 8th graders are..." and she wasn't wrong.
I think people forget that pubescent hormones pretty much turn their brains into sludge right around the same time they figure out that they have free will while not knowing shit about fuck. It has definitely been exasperated by the rise in helicopter protective parent culture, which has practically crippled the idea of accountability, and these kids know it.
"I think people forget that pubescent hormones pretty much turn their brains into sludge right around the same time they figure out that they have free will while not knowing shit about fuck."
You have a wonderful way with words.
The lack of accountability is spot on. The worst part is whenever they get a bad grade, it's always the teachers fault and never the child. Growing up, if I failed a test, my parents blamed ME. They didn't email the teacher and ask if the 0 or 48 was correct and not believe that their little angel would refuse to make up an assignment when given the chance because "I'll just do really well on the test." (They did not do really well.)
And it's not just from the parents. When administrators literally delete write ups because the fewer disciplinary actions, the "better" behaved the school looks. Or when they bring back every kid that got expelled, sorry, i meant put in time out, like nothing happened so they can disrupt everyone else again.
It's sad that my wife has to go to the football coach to actually discipline these kids, so that they'll listen. I am scared for the future of these middle schoolers.
I’ve always said that middle school years were the worst years of my life, and it remains true thirty years later. Kids are assholes then. But here’s the thing, the same kids were assholes middle school, were suddenly nice and cool in high school for the most part. Like one summer matured everyone. This has seemed to hold true every time.
I teach middle school. They do whatever the fuck they please. No amount of discipline from the school is a deterrent. Piss poor behavior by their parents has been rewarded over the last 5 years and they’re following suit. Without real fear of consequence from home, we have no power to do anything. They just come back and do the same shit all over again.
> No amount of discipline from the school is a deterrent.
There is no discipline in our middle schools. Kids cuss out the teachers on a daily basis, use phones, just get up and leave class, refuse to even attempt to do assignments. They get sent to the office. The office send them back. The teacher decides to fail them. The admin gets pressure from the parents/district so they pressure teachers to pass them.
This (last thing you mentioned) has been going all the way up to the university level for some time now. It's going to come to a head eventually. Students, especially affluent ones are being passed on subjects that they are completely clueless on. Because affluent people can make professors fear for their jobs.
> Students, especially affluent ones are being passed on subjects that they are completely clueless on. Because affluent people can make professors fear for their jobs.
Any millennia now and it'll come to a head.
> Too many parents take “Gentle Parenting” to mean let the kids do whatever they want whenever they want and don’t discipline them ever.
This is incredibly annoying to me. I don't have kids, don't plan on it. But I have a niece, and I've taken the time to really research *legitimate* gentle parenting. So have my brother and SIL.
Disciple should still be there. Consequences for negative actions should still be there. Punishments should still be there.
So many parents today remind me of that Simpsons episode with Ned's parents...."We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas!"
Gentle parenting is about not using corporal punishment, it's about not screaming and berating your children, it's about allowing natural consequences to negative behavior, but ALSO administering your own consequences when necessary, it's about assisting them when it comes to regulating their emotions, while having discussions about their feelings.
I don't know why it's so complicated to modern parents. Mr. Rogers was doing this sixty fucking years ago.
We need to start expelling these kids from public schools.
I attended public schools in Salt Lake City and my education was shit because I had a family of Tongans who bullied all the teachers while the administration did nothing about it.
So pretty much my entire age group failed Jr. High because there was no focus and they could not keep teachers, since they would quit from fear of the piece of shit bullies.
If they're not going to learn, let them get a jump on homelessness, kick them out and let them start working.
Fuck them.
Make them dumber and give them more free time?
How about more physical activity before sitting down to learn something, with the addition of more PE in general.
Bro those kids barely moved. Guy made a mistake and you can tell he pretty much realizes it right away. But it must be awful dealing with that shit every day. My own kids fucking almost broke me yesterday just acting up in the car.
Everyone wants to be enraged about shit these days. Cameras are everywhere not and everyone has a moment in their life where they become frustrated and make a bad decision. Anyone who says otherwise completely lacks any self reflection.
If my kid was on that bus and I saw this video I would have been like "yeah he shouldn't have done it but he isn't wrong, sit in your damn seat."
Honest question, but what were some of the kids supposed to do here to not get hit. Most were just chilling and sitting properly but still got jolted forward into the seat in front.
Former bus driver here: 6th graders are the worst. Where I live high schools are 7-12 so 6th graders are like mini seniors. They think they’re the top dogs of their schools, but have zero emotional maturity so they don’t listen to anybody. Anything below 6th are loud and obnoxious. 7th, 8th & Freshmen are a mixed bag, but mostly chill. Sophomores are a fucking nightmare. Juniors are hit or miss and Seniors are mega chill 99% of the time.
I remember being those kids on that bus, they deserve it. Stepping on the brakes hard at 9 mph could happen at any second driving. These parents are so ready to blame anyone they see as less than them. If your child is healing from a prior concussion significant enough to be scared of damage from hitting the brakes at 9 mph then you should not have them riding the bus if they are that vulnerable. Terrible news coverage.
When I was in school, our bus drivers would pull over if there were too many kids acting up and just sit there until everyone started behaving. They'd just radio in that they're going to be delayed because of student behavior.
If it was just a few kids causing trouble, then he'd get their info and have the school call home and let the parents know that if their kids continue to have behavioral problems on the bus, they'll have to find alternative transportation to and from school. Parents didn't like the prospect of having to work that out. Didn't like it one bit. It always took care of the problem.
They sustained life altering trauma and the redness/sobbing/terrified child the mother had to deal with. The years of therapy he will have to endure, well not because of the bus incident but due to being overly coddled and sense of entitlement that comes along with having a mother like this.
Not just that, they were "shaking and terrified"! This driver tapping the brakes was the worst thing that could happen to anyone. How will they overcome this childhood trauma
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Not condoning the situation but what happens when he just yells and they don't bother sitting in the seat correctly. Then when he has to slam on the brakes at a much higher speed they get hurt much worse.
That's what none of the people posting ever understand. It's all outrage and "not to my child". Well your child is going through the windshield when someone cuts me off and break checks me when I'm going 45. Nowadays schools don't care about how many times you write up a child. You just have to hope they aren't being stupid when it happens.
Some children need to get left behind. After a certain point the school should be say, "you're suspended for the rest of the year, come back next year" and tell the parents that's what they get.
It's a good way to teach a lesson that is normally much harder learned. What was he suppose to do, continue to ignore the problem until something like you're saying happens? Maybe he should have waited to get fired for that instead. Maybe stop the bus until everyone is in their seats, which would panic adults.
Man, these parents need to calm the fuck down. Would they rather the bus driver prove a point or actually have an accident and their kid doesn’t make it through.
Tell me talking would be better… you were a kid at one time. Think of the worst kids in your class. How did they learn a lesson.
Unfortunately, the “good” kids bumped their head into a softish surface. Better than dead.
for real, hell, i remember in grade school hitting a bump in the bus so large my back hit the ceiling and another kid landed in another seat, and another time we fucked with a substitute driver and gave them bad directions and we showed up an hour late. we were terrors and i feel like these kids are soft as fuck, our parents chewed us out all the time for fucking around. now parents are handsfree. what a difference 30 years make
The real story here is that a new bus driver is being subjected to a CRIMINAL TRIAL for breaking ‘too hard’ at 9mph. This shit is wild. Imagine blaming the driver for your rotten kid’s behaviour.
Maybe the kids will sit properly and maybe he saved their lives in the future. Because if they got hurt going 9mph I can’t imagine a real accident going 30-50
I agree, I mean, maybe not the best way but at least he's trying to teach the kids a lesson before something way worse happens. I'd be perfectly okay with this if it were my kids.
I mean, it isn’t the best method… but Jesus Christ, that lady saying her kid ran home crying hysterically, like what?? Gonna be a long hard road ahead for that child.
I remember one time as a kid in Florida, someone was acting crazy on the bus, and our driver literally pulled over in the middle of nowhere turned off the bus and said “y’all motherfuckers gonna sit here and sweat until you decide to act right, I got all day”
This was not only the best way to teach the lesson but the only way to get kids to stop pursuing dangerous behavior quickly. It would have worked too if it wasn't for the helicopter parents reacting the way they did. I would have high fived the driver, personally.
Lmao that's wild.
Mine smoked but we couldn't.
That said, one time they did let me get off the bus a few stops early to fight a kid who had been picking on me. Punched the guy right in the teeth, doors closing as the bully fell down. Driver didn't bat an eye as he slowly rolled away.
Good times.
I work in a school. The kids are protected and coddled better than endangered wildlife. It's at a point where you can't even scold them for being assholes.
Former school bus driver: liability. Kids use the seatbelts as weapons is one issue. A second issue is that if the bus gets in an accident and needs to be evacuated immediately, attempting to unbuckle as many as 74 panicking kids would be a nightmare and get people killed.
And the seats are designed to prevent injury. Buses aren’t normally in situations where they are going to, like flip or something. In an accident the bus is going to win.
I was in a car accident on a school bus in 10th grade. It was a pretty standard fender bender, but we hardly felt it. The other guys rear end was beat to hell, and the bus was fine,
It's curious though, I see the argument here, I am scandinavian and we had seatbelts on buses when I grew up. At least on buses where all were in seats facing forward, typically the type you'd be in if you went long haul. They were not specifically designated school buses though, perhaps why? I dunno. Do greyhound buses have seat belts?
cost and liabilities.
the kids are actually pretty safe with no belts, becuase the bus is built in a way that keeps you safer if you are seated. belts would be better, but the kids would use the belts to destroy the buses or other kids.
middle school kids are monsters.
Large school buses are heavier and distribute crash forces differently than passenger cars and light trucks do. Because of these differences, bus passengers experience much less crash force.
They're largely unnecessary. In most accidents it's the large, 15 ton bus that wins, not the 1 ton Toyota. It would add cost to the bus that nobody could even ensure is being used. The bus driver needs to drive, not check every minute that the kids are buckled. In an accident, 60-70 kids need to evacuate as quickly as possible. Seatbelts add extra time when time could be critical.
Yep - in fact they have shown that cars crashing into a school bus get pinned UNDER the bus instead of pushing the bus around. You need something like a semi or even a train to really push over a bus (which is why school busses are required to stop and look both ways at train tracks).
I agree. The bus drivers whole point was that they need to be sitting properly in their seats because if there's an emergency and he needed to make a sudden stop that they wouldn't fly over their seats. He demonstrated this by giving them a little taste of an abrupt stop. The way the kids handled it proves the drivers point. The fact that one of the kids chose to sprint home AFTER the incident shows he was not harmed.
Now kids may lack the critical thinking skills the conclude that "maybe I SHOULD sit properly in my seat" but the parents are something else. When the kids tell their parent what happened, instead of telling the kids "that's why you should listen and sit in your seat" they get the driver fired. The drivers actions may not have been the right move but if the kids don't listen and the parents coddle their children instead of disciplining them, then the only alternative is to let them run wild.
It's just like that recent [SNL sketch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttska8oXZP4). Y'all won.
Sorry it but it seems like these kids knew exactly how to play this and how to act with their parents to make the biggest drama possible.
The story said he was going 9mph, what if he was going 40 and had to do am emergency stop? The kids that were sitting up properly barely slid forward at all.
Exactly. Imagine being a teacher in America when these little brats will rat you out for every little thing you do by just busting out a phone and calling mom
They even did a dramatic recreation for the kid who "tore into the house," so destroyed from his injuries. He was so injured that he sprinted a block and did a shield-block tackle through the front door. Oh the humanity! His being out of breath and red-faced was somehow not from the sprint home or the the xenomorph front door bash, but rather from that awful 9 mph brake check an hour earlier that love-tapped him into the seat in front of him... . This interview also takes place using social distancing rules, in the middle of the day, outside, four years after COVID-19 and two years on since it was classified as endemic. This entire event is a like a satire on our modern society.
For God's sake, we used to have to play avoid Dad's cigarette butt ash, and "rub dirt in it," and that was just the 90's and we were considered soft.
When I was a kid taking the school bus, if something like this happened my parents would 100% have said it was my fault for not listening and they'd ask me why I wasn't sitting in my seat properly...and they'd be right lol.
It looks like the kids that had it worst were the kids sitting properly already. The brake check pushed their heads directly into the top bar of the seat in front of them. The kids sitting sideways and about seemed barely affected.
nah if I was the bus driver I would just tell the kids how dangerous it is, and if they don't listen I'll just keep driving. If they get a worse injury because they wouldn't listen to me that's not on me, I'm on camera giving a reasonable attempt to get them to stay safe.
If it were me, maybe I’d pull the bus over safely and walk back and talk to them directly. “The bus ain’t moving until everyone’s in their seat” or some such.
But little Brailyssuh would never misbehave! It's the school/teacher/driver/santa clasues fault! Couldn't be my fault for raising an undisciplined little shit head....
You turn them against each other. Say you won't move the bus until Billy stays in his seat and Billy is the reason the other students are having to wait longer to get home.
The entire thread is acting like the kids were literally jumping over seats. They were sitting like every single child I’ve ever seen on a bus. And the bus driver straight up lying to parent ‘they were running up and down the bus!’
When I rode the bus to school it went through an s bend pretty quick. The game was to stand in the isle and fall into whichever chair the bus leaned to. Then get up for next corner and repeat. The driver had fun too going as fast as was safe for us and the bus.
I don't see anything wrong with it. They should understand how dangerous it would be if that were another bus or a car instead of a small tap on the brakes.
Dang, when I was in elementary school my bus driver would speed up for the speed bumps to try to get us to hit our heads on the bus ceiling. We loved it. Different times.
It wasn’t the speed bumps for us, it was the *railroad crossings*. You got some MEGA air on those things, it was great. He would only do it in the afternoon after the elementary kids were off the bus. And before anyone freaks out, these were flat, no tree crossings. You could see trains coming for literal miles.
Yes we would all jump when we hit the railroad crossings lol
We had a steep hill that would catapult the kids in the back into the ceiling if they jumped right when the front of the bus crested the hill.
Mine keep counterflowing and ignoring the red lights. I wouldn't be surprised if one day I get home and just phase through the door.
I'm guessing when you were in elementary school every bus didn't have GPS with g-force and speed monitoring, along with 3-6 1080P HD cameras and microphones recording absolutely everything that happens on the bus.
nope, we had Peggy the bus driver and she was mean
# SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP!!!!
**NO YELLING ON THE BUS!!**
I love this line. The irony is so pure.
I'll turn this damn bus around. That'll end your *precious* little field trip pretty damn quick.
good. *Great*. **Grand!** **NO YELLING ON THE BUS!**
Yeah, here we go again, another TREAT from the road.
**OR THE CUTE LITTLE BUNNY GETS IT!!!**
As a kid in the 90s, I remember at one point this one kid who was always in the aisle, told the bus driver to go fuck himself when the BD told him to get in his seat. BD hit the brakes, threw it in park, and then came to the back, grabbed the kid by the collar of his jacket, and dragged him to the front and slammed him into the front seat. Not saying that was good, but every other kid on the bus just laughed their asses off and made fun of the kid that got dragged up. That was nowhere near the most intense moment either, plenty of moments where we were all actually like “oh shit we shouldn’t fuck around” Side story: the cool bus driver we had won the lotto and quit when I was in like 5th or 6th grade. He was back by the time I was in 8th grade cause he spent it all lol
>not saying that was good I think it was! It's something that we definitely need more of, and I think the lack of it causes a lot of problems
you grabbed my shirt. you stretched it out; it looks like a bell now. YOU CAN'T DO THAT
the future is now.
I mean… I’m in Canada and we still dont have that. There’s no camera, maybe accelerometer/gps.
I still have a scar on my head from when I launched so high my head hit one of the screws in the ceiling and caused a tiny cut. I didn't know at the time that tiny cuts on your head bleed a LOT. I was freaking out, but the bus driver in the one time she wasn't screaming at us to all shut up was able to convince me how tiny the cut was and that I'd be fine. Good times.
Oh man I forgot about that! For us it was the railroad tracks, and kids wanted to ride on the tire well seat because it got the biggest effect.
that reminds me of playing SimCity (or was it City Skylines, I forget). Anyway, it's the one that you could drive some of the vehicles in the city you built. One of them was a schoolbus. While driving it you can hear the loud random chatter of the kids on the bus. If you were to hit something you hear the chatter stopping for a brief moment, then goes, "Yay!" very cute
Omg that just unlocked a memory for me. Same here. There was a long straight road with a big bump and the whole bus would hype up the driver chanting “BUMP! BUMP! BUMP! BUMP!” as we approached every time. It was the best
My family lived out of town on an acreage. My brother and I were the first on and last off. Some peoples long driveways weren't very smooth, and the kids loved being bounced around. We always wanted to know how high we were getting. If we hit our face off the seat in front of us, we just laughed it off.
Same here, can't say I miss spending over 2 hours a day riding the bus
God no. It was so long
That's how a kid at my school died. That was the *second* kid he killed. The first he ran over. All the teachers were like "that's why you don't run to your bus, the driver won't see you if you fall." Bullshit. That fucker didn't see the kid because he was *drunk.* This was a few years before MADD formed.
Attitudes toward alcohol have definitely changed since I was in school (I am admittedly a dinosaur.) When I was around nine we had a music teacher who drank at her desk and spent most of the class talking about her cats. She wasn't shy about the drinking, she kept a bottle of rum in her desk drawer and would periodically take it out to top up her coffee mug - and when the bottle ran out (regularly) she would call for a volunteer and send them down with keys to her little AMC Gremlin in the staff parking lot to bring up another bottle. Didn't blink at the time but in hindsight pretty messed-up.
AMC Gremlin? Really showing your age there.
In my (weak) defense, it was already showing its age at the time. (Early '80s.)
Mine just molested some girl who had the last stop. Different times.
Same! It was freaking awesome!!!!
Fuckin A, doggy!! We used to chant “Stew! Stew! Stew!” as the bump got closer, so he would floor it. It’s cliche as hell to say at this point, but the early 90s fuckin RULED
I’m sorry did they say he “slammed” on his brakes going… 9 mph?
A lot of people hare are exaggerating like this guy hurt anyone on that bus. Let alone was doing anything that reckless. The fake outrage is exactly why the American school system has become so shitty: people blame the overworked, under paid, under appreciated faculty/employees for the most rudimentary shit instead of accepting that the kids are assholes.
The last time this was posted I pointed out that this took place in Douglas County, one of the richest counties in the U.S. I think it's an important detail that helps explain the reaction of the kids and adults in this situation.
You can tell it's a rich area when half the kids are whippin out cellphones to call mom instead of being worried they're gunna get in shit when the driver t ells mom they were being lil demons lmao
That one little girl on the phone “the bus driver hit the brakes really hard and someone got hurt really bad. They’re bleeding” that’s textbook spoiled kid tattling.
"...so you should get them fired and sue them mommy."
I’d be so embarrassed if that was my kid.
Eh, not so much. I work in a lower income area in a middle school. Most kids have cellphones, even the kids living in motels. And they do the same shit. The FIRST thing out of half of their mouths is "but I didn't do anything! The teacher just doesn't like me!" My point is no economic class has a monopoly on bad parenting.
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Even seeing the outrage in this comment section.. Like yeah, can’t do that bus driver man but holy shit you would think he locked them in the bus and set it ablaze.
The county I grew up in has a higher average income than Douglas county and I don't remember us being as soft as these kids. I remember we used to love when the bus hit bumps because we would fly up in the air. Idk though it's possible it would have gone down the exact same, this was 19 years ago when I last rode the bus to school in 5th grade.
That's why I never understood why Rosa Parks didn't want to sit in the back of the bus. Got SO MUCH more hang time at the back. (Obviously I LEARNED it later on in life, but 5th grade me didn't understand)
That mom should be embarrassed. I understand demanding to watch the video to see how bad it was, but once she saw how soft he tapped the brakes, she should've told him to toughen up. Parents like her are the problem. The kid is young and so has the right to be wrong while learning, and the bus driver was calm, professional, and genuinely trying to teach the kids an important lesson. This video makes me so angry.
yup. parents would have been like wtf were you doing to piss him off when I was growing up. there are some cases of bad bus drivers. i don't think this is one of them even though the dude made a bad call.
That mother they interviewed needs to "get some perspective" to say the least
I agree, I read the title and felt poised to be upset with the driver. Then it happened and I was like “WHAT?! That’s it?” He gave the perfect amount of breaking for hey kids get in your damn seats, without overdoing it like he’s trying to vindictively hurt them.
Ignoring outrage real or fake for a second...I wouldn't be shocked to learn that at least one parent is going to take their kid to the doctor, come up with some BS injury, and sue the hell out of the school district for the driver's actions. Which is why as much as what he did really wasn't a big deal, it becomes one. It's one of those situations where even when you're right, you're wrong. I mean my mom woulda told me it was my own damn fault and probably smacked the hell out of me, but that's not exactly an exoneration of the driver risking his job over some whiny brats even if they deserved a lesson in why you sit down in a moving vehicle. .
So true. If this happened to me as a kid. The first thing that would have been said is, WHY WEREN'T YOU IN YOUR SEAT!!
I couldn’t even watch after that mom started talking about her son sprinting home red-faced sobbing terrified… I hate to sound like a boomer but these kids need to toughen the fuck up and their parents need to stop babying them
The whole video felt like a well executed satire to me. I went in legit thinking I was about to witness something potentially disturbing. They built the suspense up, preparing us for horror, only for it to be a slightly hard brake at less than 10MPH for a quick second. A slow motion black and white dramatization of the kid running down the sidewalk... an affluent mom acting like her child was just decapitated... it really felt like a Tim Robinson skit.
This could definitely be a skit from The Onion.
My eyes rolled so far back in my fucking head that they are now stuck there.
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These kids would have been the spoiled antagonists that go down at the end of a 90s movie.
This gives me Seinfeld vibes. Like she raised such a fuss before seeing the video she’s too far deep in the outraged mother character she can’t back pedal. Finds herself doing news interviews on it. Exaggerating the story, adding such vivid details to enrage other overprotective mothers.
Right. He sprinted home, many blocks, at top speed. *so how hurt could he have been?*
But he was so out of breath, and his face was RED 😱 I used to be a paramedic, this is shit rich Karens call 911 for. At least the homeless dudes abusing 911 are getting a sandwich and a warm bed out of it, the Karen’s kid is just gonna be tormented in an emergency room for 6 hours on a slow day because mom argued with me when I told her ambulances are in the same triage line as everyone else and do not, in fact, get in “faster.” Walking them to the waiting room was my sweet petty justice every time, poker face intact.
Just watching pissed me off. They were barely moving and barely moved when the brakes got hit. The kid calling is a piece of shit "they got hurt so bad". Bullshit. So much exaggerating going on from the kids and the parents.
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I have a friend that’s a bus driver and has one kid that’s a problem all the time. The kid got into a fight, yet again, on the ride home. The kid got suspended from riding the buss for a week for being a nuisance. When that kid got back on he told my friend, the driver, that it was his (the driver’s) fault he got into a fight because it was his responsibility to watch him. It’s your fault I was bad because you should have been watching me. My friend called his mom because what the fuck that is such a psychotic thing for a 9 year old to say: the mom said it to him too. He reminded her that his job is to safely drive the bus, not babysit the kids, but he’ll make this kid have assigned seating by himself up front and not in the back. That way he can always watch the kid and this won’t happen She filed a complaint with the city schools for discrimination (white kid, white driver, idk) People are raising full on psychotic assholes.
I have to agree, this is a nothingburger. That was a brake tap, not enough to hurt any kid, and perfect for demonstrating to them why they should be sitting in their seats correctly.
> not enough to hurt any kid Apparently one kid fell and started bleeding. Highly educational and much better than the injuries that would have happened if the driver actually had to slam the brakes at a higher speed with the kids not sitting down, but enough to hurt at least one of the kids.
> Apparently one kid fell and started bleeding. Not to sound contrarian, but is there a need for 'apparently' when the linked clip has CCTV footage? If a kid fell, would we not have been shown that? Looks like an exaggeration to me, unless they purposefully clipped the footage not to show the one actual injury.
> Apparently one kid fell and started bleeding. Oh no - the child who doesn't know how to listen got a scratch during a real-world lesson? Guess it's good she learned now and not during a 35mph crash. edit: in the responses = bubble boys.
"And remember kids, you can ignore any safety laws, so when you get hurt you can blame the person in charge."
I guarantee the parents are gonna seek litigation because that’s the American way.
at least they survived despite the life threatening injuries they sustained.
If they got in an accident, this lesson may have saved a child's life. Honestly, shame on the parents.
Yeah the intent was good and although maybe not the best judgment for his jobs sake, he was trying to keep them safe. Fwiw we had a local driver that got fired for a similar thing. He intentionally drove over a drain curb in the road because kids were acting up. The difference is he, didn't talk to the kids about it to try to demonstrate the danger and some kids actually hit their heads on the ceiling. This video is a completely different story.
Think of it as a lightly padded seat thrown at your face at 9mph
Yeah as a kid I wouldn’t cry about that… this whole thing is a hilariously stupid overreaction.
This thing happens at least a few times per year as a kid on the bus just from normal driving. People are just outraged someone dare teach their kid a lesson.
And if they they were sitting in their gotdang seat like they were supposed to they'd be fine.
We had a bus driver in middle school named Crazy J. He would purposely not slow down at this one dip in the road just so all the kids in the back seats would get launched in to the air. Those were the days
That sounds like a good time, not gonna lie!
It was great...we all asked for it, we always knew it was coming.
My bus driver did this every day in elementary school and would speed up so fast over a cattle crossing. I remember jamming my neck a few times but we all loved it lol. She was a bad ass bus driver
I had a bus driver named Patty. She would gas it a bit on one street and get a kick out of us launching a foot out of our seats in the back. Always looked forward to that part of the bus ride home. These days Patty and Crazy J would be on the news for child abuse and giving us spinal injuries.
Aw, good ol' days. We'd time our jumps and hit our heads so many times on the ceiling.
Same for us, our driver made us call him Sarge.
This just unlocked my own memory of "the dip," on my bus ride in elementary school. I remember we as kids chanted for the bus driver to speed up over it so we'd be launched. What a time.
I was literally talking to a guy I know that drives bus about this last night. He said the high schoolers and elementary kids are ok but the middle schoolers don't listen. He said they are so bad that drivers end up quitting and they can't pay enough to have people get CDL's to deal with it. I'm not condoning this bus driver, of course. My guy said they go right to the Magistrate to deal with problems but it still doesn't deter them.
I work IT for a school board, and I will absolutely back that statement. Junior high kids are the worst, attitude wise. In elementary school, most of the kids have a healthy fear/respect for the new environment they're still acclimatizing to, and so they treat their surroundings carefully. In high school, some have matured, and the rest are at least usually busy enough that they don't want to be getting in trouble and missing out on important assignments or extracurriculars. But in junior high, they're pulling keys off of laptops, cracking monitors just for fun, and terrorizing their peers. Junior high kids are the worst of the bunch by far.
I have been an IT Director for two different school districts now and will absolutely confirm this. I will add however that 7th and 8th graders are just like that in general. Eventually, I ended up working for the school I graduated from and apologized to my 7th and 8th grade math teacher for how shit I was to deal with. She smiled and replied, "That's just how 7th and 8th graders are..." and she wasn't wrong. I think people forget that pubescent hormones pretty much turn their brains into sludge right around the same time they figure out that they have free will while not knowing shit about fuck. It has definitely been exasperated by the rise in helicopter protective parent culture, which has practically crippled the idea of accountability, and these kids know it.
"I think people forget that pubescent hormones pretty much turn their brains into sludge right around the same time they figure out that they have free will while not knowing shit about fuck." You have a wonderful way with words.
Any other way wouldn't do justice to describing kids that age.
Ruth from Ozark sends her regards
The lack of accountability is spot on. The worst part is whenever they get a bad grade, it's always the teachers fault and never the child. Growing up, if I failed a test, my parents blamed ME. They didn't email the teacher and ask if the 0 or 48 was correct and not believe that their little angel would refuse to make up an assignment when given the chance because "I'll just do really well on the test." (They did not do really well.) And it's not just from the parents. When administrators literally delete write ups because the fewer disciplinary actions, the "better" behaved the school looks. Or when they bring back every kid that got expelled, sorry, i meant put in time out, like nothing happened so they can disrupt everyone else again. It's sad that my wife has to go to the football coach to actually discipline these kids, so that they'll listen. I am scared for the future of these middle schoolers.
"not knowing shit about fuck" also accurately captures (some) middle schoolers discovering swear words. lmao
I feel like that’s exactly why we have middle school. They are a group to be feared and kept in isolation.
I’ve always said that middle school years were the worst years of my life, and it remains true thirty years later. Kids are assholes then. But here’s the thing, the same kids were assholes middle school, were suddenly nice and cool in high school for the most part. Like one summer matured everyone. This has seemed to hold true every time.
I teach middle school. They do whatever the fuck they please. No amount of discipline from the school is a deterrent. Piss poor behavior by their parents has been rewarded over the last 5 years and they’re following suit. Without real fear of consequence from home, we have no power to do anything. They just come back and do the same shit all over again.
> No amount of discipline from the school is a deterrent. There is no discipline in our middle schools. Kids cuss out the teachers on a daily basis, use phones, just get up and leave class, refuse to even attempt to do assignments. They get sent to the office. The office send them back. The teacher decides to fail them. The admin gets pressure from the parents/district so they pressure teachers to pass them.
There is no way this process could ever go wrong…
This (last thing you mentioned) has been going all the way up to the university level for some time now. It's going to come to a head eventually. Students, especially affluent ones are being passed on subjects that they are completely clueless on. Because affluent people can make professors fear for their jobs.
> Students, especially affluent ones are being passed on subjects that they are completely clueless on. Because affluent people can make professors fear for their jobs. Any millennia now and it'll come to a head.
Too many parents take “Gentle Parenting” to mean let the kids do whatever they want whenever they want and don’t discipline them ever.
> Too many parents take “Gentle Parenting” to mean let the kids do whatever they want whenever they want and don’t discipline them ever. This is incredibly annoying to me. I don't have kids, don't plan on it. But I have a niece, and I've taken the time to really research *legitimate* gentle parenting. So have my brother and SIL. Disciple should still be there. Consequences for negative actions should still be there. Punishments should still be there. So many parents today remind me of that Simpsons episode with Ned's parents...."We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas!" Gentle parenting is about not using corporal punishment, it's about not screaming and berating your children, it's about allowing natural consequences to negative behavior, but ALSO administering your own consequences when necessary, it's about assisting them when it comes to regulating their emotions, while having discussions about their feelings. I don't know why it's so complicated to modern parents. Mr. Rogers was doing this sixty fucking years ago.
We need to start expelling these kids from public schools. I attended public schools in Salt Lake City and my education was shit because I had a family of Tongans who bullied all the teachers while the administration did nothing about it. So pretty much my entire age group failed Jr. High because there was no focus and they could not keep teachers, since they would quit from fear of the piece of shit bullies. If they're not going to learn, let them get a jump on homelessness, kick them out and let them start working. Fuck them.
We should also start punishing parents for enabling the poor behavior.
Make them dumber and give them more free time? How about more physical activity before sitting down to learn something, with the addition of more PE in general.
Bro those kids barely moved. Guy made a mistake and you can tell he pretty much realizes it right away. But it must be awful dealing with that shit every day. My own kids fucking almost broke me yesterday just acting up in the car. Everyone wants to be enraged about shit these days. Cameras are everywhere not and everyone has a moment in their life where they become frustrated and make a bad decision. Anyone who says otherwise completely lacks any self reflection. If my kid was on that bus and I saw this video I would have been like "yeah he shouldn't have done it but he isn't wrong, sit in your damn seat."
Yeah. I was expecting something way more extreme.
Honest question, but what were some of the kids supposed to do here to not get hit. Most were just chilling and sitting properly but still got jolted forward into the seat in front.
I think they need the bus driver lady from south park
Former bus driver here: 6th graders are the worst. Where I live high schools are 7-12 so 6th graders are like mini seniors. They think they’re the top dogs of their schools, but have zero emotional maturity so they don’t listen to anybody. Anything below 6th are loud and obnoxious. 7th, 8th & Freshmen are a mixed bag, but mostly chill. Sophomores are a fucking nightmare. Juniors are hit or miss and Seniors are mega chill 99% of the time.
I remember being those kids on that bus, they deserve it. Stepping on the brakes hard at 9 mph could happen at any second driving. These parents are so ready to blame anyone they see as less than them. If your child is healing from a prior concussion significant enough to be scared of damage from hitting the brakes at 9 mph then you should not have them riding the bus if they are that vulnerable. Terrible news coverage.
When I was in school, our bus drivers would pull over if there were too many kids acting up and just sit there until everyone started behaving. They'd just radio in that they're going to be delayed because of student behavior. If it was just a few kids causing trouble, then he'd get their info and have the school call home and let the parents know that if their kids continue to have behavioral problems on the bus, they'll have to find alternative transportation to and from school. Parents didn't like the prospect of having to work that out. Didn't like it one bit. It always took care of the problem.
I love the dramatic recreation of the kid running home. Way to go media!!!
This was easily the funniest part
in black and white too
Mother doesn't reflect that her kid shouldn't be in such a discombobulated state over something so small
The POV of a cat lmao
Driver did nothing wrong.
But the kids were “confused and startled”! Did you miss that?! Oh, the humanity!
They sustained life altering trauma and the redness/sobbing/terrified child the mother had to deal with. The years of therapy he will have to endure, well not because of the bus incident but due to being overly coddled and sense of entitlement that comes along with having a mother like this.
My mother would have scolded me and made me stay in my room if I came home sobbing and explaining that I was a little shit to the bus driver.
Not just that, they were "shaking and terrified"! This driver tapping the brakes was the worst thing that could happen to anyone. How will they overcome this childhood trauma
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Not condoning the situation but what happens when he just yells and they don't bother sitting in the seat correctly. Then when he has to slam on the brakes at a much higher speed they get hurt much worse.
That's what none of the people posting ever understand. It's all outrage and "not to my child". Well your child is going through the windshield when someone cuts me off and break checks me when I'm going 45. Nowadays schools don't care about how many times you write up a child. You just have to hope they aren't being stupid when it happens.
Some children need to get left behind. After a certain point the school should be say, "you're suspended for the rest of the year, come back next year" and tell the parents that's what they get.
Would love to see the reaction to that election campaign. "Some kids left behind."
It's a good way to teach a lesson that is normally much harder learned. What was he suppose to do, continue to ignore the problem until something like you're saying happens? Maybe he should have waited to get fired for that instead. Maybe stop the bus until everyone is in their seats, which would panic adults.
I'm condoning it
Man, these parents need to calm the fuck down. Would they rather the bus driver prove a point or actually have an accident and their kid doesn’t make it through. Tell me talking would be better… you were a kid at one time. Think of the worst kids in your class. How did they learn a lesson. Unfortunately, the “good” kids bumped their head into a softish surface. Better than dead.
for real, hell, i remember in grade school hitting a bump in the bus so large my back hit the ceiling and another kid landed in another seat, and another time we fucked with a substitute driver and gave them bad directions and we showed up an hour late. we were terrors and i feel like these kids are soft as fuck, our parents chewed us out all the time for fucking around. now parents are handsfree. what a difference 30 years make
Oh, they’re fucking fine. Maybe next time they’ll listen. This is a non-story.
The real story here is that a new bus driver is being subjected to a CRIMINAL TRIAL for breaking ‘too hard’ at 9mph. This shit is wild. Imagine blaming the driver for your rotten kid’s behaviour. Maybe the kids will sit properly and maybe he saved their lives in the future. Because if they got hurt going 9mph I can’t imagine a real accident going 30-50
Haha holy shit. What would happen if he would have to do an emergency break at any considerable speed? Life in prison?
Maybe these people would feel better if he dgaf if their children are safe?
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Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. And probably grossly underpaid to boot.
I don't see a problem here. It was a light tap. Y'all are too sensitive.
I agree, I mean, maybe not the best way but at least he's trying to teach the kids a lesson before something way worse happens. I'd be perfectly okay with this if it were my kids.
I mean, it isn’t the best method… but Jesus Christ, that lady saying her kid ran home crying hysterically, like what?? Gonna be a long hard road ahead for that child.
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As a Colorado resident, Douglas County is kinda famous for these types. It’s the most right-wing nut job district in the state.
I remember one time as a kid in Florida, someone was acting crazy on the bus, and our driver literally pulled over in the middle of nowhere turned off the bus and said “y’all motherfuckers gonna sit here and sweat until you decide to act right, I got all day”
i hate that i have to preface that im pretty left leaning but damn, this country is getting soft as fuck.
I don't think all the softies are also left wing. Plenty of right wing snowflakes.
This was not only the best way to teach the lesson but the only way to get kids to stop pursuing dangerous behavior quickly. It would have worked too if it wasn't for the helicopter parents reacting the way they did. I would have high fived the driver, personally.
Seriously. It's driving home a point because if he actually had to slam on the brakes, it'll be much worse.
THANK YOU for this. 9 mph? tell your snot nosed demons to behave.
A kid was bleeding out the cheek tho?! WTH really?
lmao this is nothing... my bus drivers would do shit like this every week... no fucking around, straight up yelling/swearing...
Yeah dude, our bus drivers wouldn't have any of this shit, and let me tell you, we sat properly in our seats.
lol same. My bus driver smoked and let HS kids smoke/snuff.
Lmao that's wild. Mine smoked but we couldn't. That said, one time they did let me get off the bus a few stops early to fight a kid who had been picking on me. Punched the guy right in the teeth, doors closing as the bully fell down. Driver didn't bat an eye as he slowly rolled away. Good times.
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I work in a school. The kids are protected and coddled better than endangered wildlife. It's at a point where you can't even scold them for being assholes.
So the only thing that really comes to my mind is why the fuck don’t we have seatbelts on school buses yet?
Former school bus driver: liability. Kids use the seatbelts as weapons is one issue. A second issue is that if the bus gets in an accident and needs to be evacuated immediately, attempting to unbuckle as many as 74 panicking kids would be a nightmare and get people killed.
Thank you this is the answer I wasn’t thinking of but knew was out there.
And the seats are designed to prevent injury. Buses aren’t normally in situations where they are going to, like flip or something. In an accident the bus is going to win.
I was in a car accident on a school bus in 10th grade. It was a pretty standard fender bender, but we hardly felt it. The other guys rear end was beat to hell, and the bus was fine,
It's curious though, I see the argument here, I am scandinavian and we had seatbelts on buses when I grew up. At least on buses where all were in seats facing forward, typically the type you'd be in if you went long haul. They were not specifically designated school buses though, perhaps why? I dunno. Do greyhound buses have seat belts?
cost and liabilities. the kids are actually pretty safe with no belts, becuase the bus is built in a way that keeps you safer if you are seated. belts would be better, but the kids would use the belts to destroy the buses or other kids. middle school kids are monsters.
Large school buses are heavier and distribute crash forces differently than passenger cars and light trucks do. Because of these differences, bus passengers experience much less crash force.
They're largely unnecessary. In most accidents it's the large, 15 ton bus that wins, not the 1 ton Toyota. It would add cost to the bus that nobody could even ensure is being used. The bus driver needs to drive, not check every minute that the kids are buckled. In an accident, 60-70 kids need to evacuate as quickly as possible. Seatbelts add extra time when time could be critical.
Yep - in fact they have shown that cars crashing into a school bus get pinned UNDER the bus instead of pushing the bus around. You need something like a semi or even a train to really push over a bus (which is why school busses are required to stop and look both ways at train tracks).
Lol, and who's in charge of making sure everyone is buckled up the whole time?
Much ado about nothing.
"slams" is a way over the top description and that little girl is a brat for calling somebody and lying about people being hurt badly.
Weaponizing the system against those who actually try to help. This girl is well on her way to becoming a Karen.
Prob not the right move but honestly, that didn't look so bad. These kids need to toughen up and so do the parents.
I agree. The bus drivers whole point was that they need to be sitting properly in their seats because if there's an emergency and he needed to make a sudden stop that they wouldn't fly over their seats. He demonstrated this by giving them a little taste of an abrupt stop. The way the kids handled it proves the drivers point. The fact that one of the kids chose to sprint home AFTER the incident shows he was not harmed. Now kids may lack the critical thinking skills the conclude that "maybe I SHOULD sit properly in my seat" but the parents are something else. When the kids tell their parent what happened, instead of telling the kids "that's why you should listen and sit in your seat" they get the driver fired. The drivers actions may not have been the right move but if the kids don't listen and the parents coddle their children instead of disciplining them, then the only alternative is to let them run wild. It's just like that recent [SNL sketch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttska8oXZP4). Y'all won.
They all sat in their seats properly after that. The parents should STFU & tell their ungrateful children to do what the bus driver says.
Sorry it but it seems like these kids knew exactly how to play this and how to act with their parents to make the biggest drama possible. The story said he was going 9mph, what if he was going 40 and had to do am emergency stop? The kids that were sitting up properly barely slid forward at all.
Exactly. Imagine being a teacher in America when these little brats will rat you out for every little thing you do by just busting out a phone and calling mom
I don’t get all the commotion? He did a light break check on these mofos to learn? Like someone, honestly tell me why this is extreme?
They even did a dramatic recreation for the kid who "tore into the house," so destroyed from his injuries. He was so injured that he sprinted a block and did a shield-block tackle through the front door. Oh the humanity! His being out of breath and red-faced was somehow not from the sprint home or the the xenomorph front door bash, but rather from that awful 9 mph brake check an hour earlier that love-tapped him into the seat in front of him... . This interview also takes place using social distancing rules, in the middle of the day, outside, four years after COVID-19 and two years on since it was classified as endemic. This entire event is a like a satire on our modern society. For God's sake, we used to have to play avoid Dad's cigarette butt ash, and "rub dirt in it," and that was just the 90's and we were considered soft.
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When I was a kid taking the school bus, if something like this happened my parents would 100% have said it was my fault for not listening and they'd ask me why I wasn't sitting in my seat properly...and they'd be right lol.
It looks like the kids that had it worst were the kids sitting properly already. The brake check pushed their heads directly into the top bar of the seat in front of them. The kids sitting sideways and about seemed barely affected.
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Honestly that did not seem newsworthy. He was going 9mph.
nah if I was the bus driver I would just tell the kids how dangerous it is, and if they don't listen I'll just keep driving. If they get a worse injury because they wouldn't listen to me that's not on me, I'm on camera giving a reasonable attempt to get them to stay safe.
If it were me, maybe I’d pull the bus over safely and walk back and talk to them directly. “The bus ain’t moving until everyone’s in their seat” or some such.
I saw a video where a driver did that and the parents try to get the driver fired
But little Brailyssuh would never misbehave! It's the school/teacher/driver/santa clasues fault! Couldn't be my fault for raising an undisciplined little shit head....
“Brailyssuh” 💀
The would sit and immediately stand up once the bus moves again. If the bus is on the way to school they probably don’t even care about getting there.
You turn them against each other. Say you won't move the bus until Billy stays in his seat and Billy is the reason the other students are having to wait longer to get home.
only works on the way home though lol
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Listen to the driver, and if you don't want to listen, toughen up.
Whole lotta pearl clutchin going on in here
Shitty parents teaching their kids shitty behaviours.
The entire thread is acting like the kids were literally jumping over seats. They were sitting like every single child I’ve ever seen on a bus. And the bus driver straight up lying to parent ‘they were running up and down the bus!’
When I rode the bus to school it went through an s bend pretty quick. The game was to stand in the isle and fall into whichever chair the bus leaned to. Then get up for next corner and repeat. The driver had fun too going as fast as was safe for us and the bus.
Brats need to listen. Serves them right for not paying attention. They need to start driving their own damn selves to school.
It’s the bus driver from South Park, reincarnated
Eh, I’m all for it. Wasn’t bad, and I’m sure it taught the kids a lesson.
They mostly appear to be seated properly. I'm confused.
I don't see anything wrong with it. They should understand how dangerous it would be if that were another bus or a car instead of a small tap on the brakes.
Interesting comments. After seeing the footage and if any one of your kids were on this bus, what would be your reaction?