If farting on a school bus results in expulsion…you’re doing it wrong.
1970’s I got expelled a couple days in junior high for an unfortunate water balloon incident. The punishment waiting for me at home was a lot worse than anything they did at school. My parents would have been furious at the stupidity of expelling someone for something as trivial as farting. Take away their bus privileges for a day, but don’t deny them an education.
Never knew or heard of anyone doing anything bad enough to get permanently kicked out. I guess if it happened then they got kicked out or permanently expelled.
I can’t recall even hearing the word suspension until about 20 years ago. Long after I got out of school. Sounds like a typical PC word they invented. Johnny didn’t fail a test, he didn’t perform to expectations. That kind of crap.
I seriously, seriously doubt that, your claim of having been “expelled” notwithstanding.
Oh BS. I graduated HS in 1994. I was well aware of suspension and expulsion in grade school. “suspension”=“don’t come to school for x amount of time, and you’re still responsible for your classwork.” “Expulsion”=“GTFO and don’t come back.”
Yet, that’s exactly what it says they did.
I graduated in 1983, and I always knew there was a difference between the two words, even when I was in elementary school in the 70s. Like **jz78817 **said, being suspended means you have to stay home for a few days, and is for lesser infractions. Being expelled is for serious trouble, and means you’re kicked out of school for good.
Next time I’ll use the exact wording in the article. I’ll even cut/paste to make it perfect.
This was supposed to be a mps fart thread poking fun at school officials.
Most punishments at my school were licks in the coaches office. I only got expelled a couple days because me & my buddies were seen water bombing some other kids by a teacher. I would have preferred the coaches licks. He didn’t hit nearly as hard as my dad. 
There was a difference between suspension and expulsion when I was in school (graduated 1984). And when my father was in school (graduated 1962). When I was in school a friend of mine got expelled - for throwing a chair across the lunchroom. It is HARD to get expelled from public school, or rather, its hard to get expelled from the public school system.
I got suspended for a day in the 1970s (1976 or thereabouts) because my new shoes squeaked.
So will school bus drivers get suspended or fired if they toot on the job?
They’d better hope they don’t get a flat - us.
Everyone will be in trouble on Taco Day.
Why are American school boards so resistant to alternate fuel technologies for the buses?
“Beans, beans,
the musical fruit:
The more you eat,
the more you toot.”
Ahem.
De gustibus non est disputandum.
Or lack thereof.
I just laughed so hard I farted.
seriously
Cutting and pasting isn’t necessary. Just be accurate in your terminology.
Wait a minute. I thought you said you were going to use accurate wording. So why are you continuing to say “expelled” when “suspended” is the correct term to employ?
Cutting one is what got the kid in trouble in the first place.
Because, as he stated, they called it expulsion. And he never said anything about using proper terminology. He said he’d quote the original words. You’re the one who, in this very post, said he’s use accurate terminology.
That said, I think it’s actually a case of not having read carefully and had a knee jerk reaction to the word “suspension.” I’ve never heard it used for kicking someone off the bus, either.
Furthermore, it’s a dumb punishment, as it punishes the parent, not the kid. It’s relying on the idea that the parents will punish the kid, but my experience says that that is not a sure thing. More likely they will be mad at the school.
And parents unfortunately have a lot of power to make teachers miserable. (Hence why I dropped out of being an education major.) Heck, I’m pretty sure that’s the reason for the article and the wording used. Apparently they are claiming the kid was faultless.
That’s funny. I went to school in the 70s and from the moment I was knee high to a grasshopper I know “Expelled” meant you were kicked out of the school forever, and “suspended” meant you were sent home for a set number of days.