Don’t be so pedantic. Being suspended is exactly the same as being expelled, especially when you’re wearing your Daisy Duke Bermuda shorts.
The problem was that there was both an expulsion and a suspension.
Using the exact words IMPLIES the use of accurate terminology… ESPECIALLY since the article in question specifically used the word “suspended.” I think that’s pretty darned obvious.
And I think we all know that those two terms are not synonymous, nor were they likely to have been “when [he] went to school.”
Won’t happen. He’s too much of a tight ass.
If suspension means the same thing as expulsion, I’m never going over a suspension bridge again.
Anyone else want to know more about this.
Boys on my bus used to tackle eachother, sit on the other one’s head and let one rip. No one, as far as I know ever got suspended for bus behavior other than real fights that caused bruising or bloodshed.
In grade school a girl sitting behind him on the bus was teasing my son and messing up his hair and flicking his ear. He got up and growled at her an shook his fist. We had to have meetings with the principal, he had to see the guidance counselor a few times and was suspended from the bus for 3 days. The girl didn’t have any meetings or suspension. The reason give was that her behavior wasn’t threatening.
School district transportation director weighing in:
Expulsion generally is a step past an out of school suspension. In my state, a kid can be suspended from school for up to ten days by the principal and/or dean. Anything past that requires a school board action, and is usually for at least a semester and by law can be up to two school years. Expulsion is saved for things like having drugs, alcohol or weapons in school, or fighting if it’s severe enough.
Out of school suspensions -v- bus suspensions? The kid was kept off the bus for one day. This after he did something that the driver had told him not to do - NOT because it smelled, but because it tended to cause a disruption. If you’ve ever spent time on a junior high (I’m guessing from the age) bus, you’d know the kind of noise and disruption that can cause. The little brat knew he would get attention and have his friends go wild if he farted and did it anyway - in such a way that his friends knew he did. Who among us can’t just quietly slip one out and act oblivious?
At any given time in my district, there are 10-15 kids - almost exclusively junior high kids on bus suspensions. It’s inconvenient for the family, but it’s meant to be.
If they had been facing a possible spanking, the thread title would have been “Fart on school bus - face capital punishment.” Capital, corporal, what’s the difference?
Times have changed.
Back in grade six or seven, Mickey Rat drove off with the inter-city coach that we all used to get to and from school. The driver had left the motor running while he went into a store to pick up some cargo. Mickey made it all the way through the downtown core, and then stopped and went back to his seat, while the driver ran several blocks to catch up to us. Good times.
In highschool, some kids occasionally used the back door of the school bus to exit while the bus was driving down the road. Surprisingly, I don’t recall any of them ever getting injured. All in all, it was a bit too rowdy for me, so I took to driving to school in the winter rather than using the bus.