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What’s wrong with these kids today? Dad may have overstepped but I’m not sure any other dad would just say “Ah, well, maybe tomorrow bullies will attack someone else”.
What would you do?
I wouldn’t have done it, just because of the legal consequences.
But, being just young enough to remember bullies, and long enough out of public school to have some perspective, I’d say the little fuckers deserved a good dressing down.
I can definitely understand what the man was feeling and his motivation, my youngest son having been severely bullied from kindgergarten to 5th grade. After a while, you get so frustrated that you do entertain the notion of doing bad things to those asshole kids. But I remember when I was a kid and someone’s dad came on the bus yelling at us and how it just made things worse for that kid, plus the legal implications nowadays from doing something like that, and there’s no way I would go on that bus. I can’t really hear what the dad said, but it was mentioned that he made threats, which in these days of Precious Snowflakes, is a real no-no.
no shit. children are vicious little cunts, and shit like this (along with the crap I put up with when I was one) is why I refuse to ever have any.
Why didn’t the bus driver report the bullying to the school officials?
IME, bus drivers, school monitors, teachers, and even principals of even “zero tolerance policy” schools just don’t give a shit.
The dad should have threatened to have the bus driver fired then. I’m sure he would give a shit if his job is on the line. It’s his bus, it’s his responsibilty.
They don’t give a shit until the threshhold is reached where they have to say something. My son was picked on on the bus for nearly a year until he’d finally had enough. He said to the kid picking on him “if I had my knife with me you’d be sorry”
Guess who got a call home about their child’s behavior on the bus? :rolleyes:
Oh, I’m all too familiar with that bullshit. I finally threatened to sue the school- my thinking is that you don’t have to have a zero tolerance policy on bullying, but if you do, you damn sure need to enforce it! I finally just ended up moving to another part of town, he started at another school for junior high (6th), and the bullying has magically ceased. But god, what hell we went through for those years.
Good point. It’s not like being a bus driver requires an advanced degree - I’ll bet there would be 5,000 applications come in the day after he was fired.
However, I do sympathize with the bus driver - anyone remember what it was like on the school bus? School buses are LOUD, kids are screaming at anything and everything, basically running completely wild - all the while the bus driver is having to drive through city streets avoiding dumbfucks taking calls, texting, and flossing while they attempt to drive. Unless the abuse was reported to the driver, so they could then keep a weather eye on it, he probably never saw anything.
I want to know why the news (as I saw it on TV earlier) was playing up the little bullying shits as “victims.” One little shit was grinning from ear to ear over it - he was happy. He got the positive attention he needed, and now he’s a Victim. He’ll ride that high for at least another year or so before he shoots someone, or gets shot, in a home invasion.
Bullies never change until they get cracked down on, and with extreme military-grade brutality. Without that crack down, the smarter ones just learn to conceal themselves better; the dumber ones end up in jail. The dad in this little psychodrama was stupid, but this should not in the least prevent a laser-like focus from descending upon these little shits.
I don’t condone what he did, but I don’t think I could really blame him. If it were my daughter and I was at my wits end I hope I’d stop at just yelling.
Yeah, I feel the same exact way. I can totally understand the dad’s feelings on this, but just because of all of the legal ramifications and the worse consequences for the daughter after dad stepped in to rescue her, I wouldn’t do it.
But I since the schools, cops, and bus system rarely does anything effective in these cases, I can very well see where a person would get frustrated to the point where he (she) goes off like that.
I hope it turns out well for him.
I’m going to stand up and totally condone what he did. I’d have done roughly the same thing, if not worse, and I wouldn’t have apologized. What the fuck is the world coming to if you can’t defend your children?
How about the bully’s mom saying how mad she was? She’s the reason her son is a vicious little shit.
Poor old Dad! When you’ve had enough you’ve just had enough. It’s a shame he didn’t control it on the threats because you’ve got to keep your own arse out of jail to defend your kids.
His daughter has cerebral palsy and the little fuckers were picking on her because of it.
Can’t be mad at the Dad for this.
Agreed on both parts.
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Anyone want to take a guess what the Sheriff’s Office would have done then? Because my guess would be “absolutely nothing at all”.
Aren’t bus drivers supposed to focus on driving?
If the school district needs to hire bus monitors, fine, but I don’t see how a school bus driver can be expected to watch 38 (or however many the bus holds) kids, listen to every word each of them says for signs of bullying, watch the road, other drivers, etc all at once.
Gee. IIRC, school buses have 13 rows of seats. In my school system we were expected to sit 3 to a seat. Times two rows of seats, that’s 78 kids.
I’ve seen four different sizes of school buses in my life. The short bus, the medium bus, the large bus and the ones that look like commuter vans.
How do they deal with a large percentage of overweight kids if there are three kids to a seat? A lot of kids I see around here, two would be a tight fit. In some cases, one kid would fill the entire seat. Do they have a special bus for the really overweight kids?
I’m with dad on this.
I refuse to see why my (hypothetical) kids should be made to suffer because of someone else’s shitty parenting skills, and why society should facilitate/condone bad behavior in children.
Someone needed to yell at these kids, and neither the state nor the parents were going to.