School bus driver in hot water

[@May-The-Tank-Engine]

Yeah no believe kids one adult vs 31 kids School: let's pretend they are lying

[@sharondingle1607]

Yea

[@ussarng4649]

She shouldn't have taken a different route, that was out if the way. (There could be a lot of variation within the route.) Some of the students might have honestly, after multiple tellings and nature of how they were questioned, thought that the bus driver treatened to crash the bus. It is however very possible the dus driver said something along the line of or with the meaning, "Settle down and stay in your seats you're being a distraction." I recall my parents saying, "sit down, you're being a distraction. You could cause an accident." Parents should have the opportunity to ride the school bus and see what it is like with 30 or 40 or more childern misbehaving let alone doing seriously dangerous things like having their arms and heads out the window. Or climbing over the back of the seat. Or launching pencils with a rubberband. Or leaning over the set to hold the student in front of them around the neck. Children are amazingly creative and when misbehaving can be very distracting. EDIT: Also a busdriver should never leave students on the bus unattended.

[@UmeshKumar-um7ze]

This comment gave me a headache

[@timothymatson3318]

@@ussarng4649 that's for sure

[@Tim85-y2q]

I love how the chyron for that one kid just says "rides the bus".

[@sharondingle1607]

😂

[@smittyk1378]

he’s a professional

[@Honeybeerose88]

He’s an expert in the matter

[@sharondingle1607]

That school better not believe the driver. You got every single kid saying that she did. But I know some people just believe the adult and it's stupid

[@jimmygrant424]

I'm 54 and when I was a kid my parents would have taken the bus driver's side!!!!

[@godofhyperdeath3619]

@@jimmygrant424 I'm 16 and my parents would believe the bus driver. Sadly time hasnt changed that

[@leahwilson8982]

My parents would rip the driver a new one 👀

[@gregorkrause]

yes i know kids lie and tell their parents that their teacher or busdriver is mean causing the teacher or busdriver to face severe consequences, like being fired, or if a kid lies about being sexually abused by the teacher/busdriver, they will both be put on the registered sex offender list even when falsely accused and nowadays it's best to believe the busdriver along with the kids because the kid's lives are at stake by a mean or abusive or dangerous busdriver.

[@gregorkrause]

why is it stupid when it could very well be the truth?

[@kng3749]

yeah, it's not enough evidence until the whole bus with kids crash.

[@SuperWilljoe]

the kid was talking fast and that is the proof he is telling the truth.

[@sharondingle1607]

Yeah

[@josephlebard4585]

Kids don't lie when it's threatening there life's.

[@Dobiegal]

Get a grip.

[@Dobiegal]

@Antics if they think theres something in it for them, they lie like a rug.

[@Dobiegal]

@Antics go back to MySpace..

[@Marieparawho]

@@Dobiegal Right!? I don’t think the kids are lying in the situation. But I work with kids & agree if there is something in it for them, kids definitely would lie about very serious matters sometimes. They don’t always understand the severity of lying in certain situations.

[@markhuotari3816]

True

[@joebolz]

The bus driver is a threat to the children, other drivers and herself, she definitely shouldn't be driving a bus.

[@cierradunham4296]

Definitely not

[@Dobiegal]

🙄. Get a grip. Let's see YOU drive that bus full of screaming disobedient children.

[@awesometron7866]

Imagine if she threatened to crash a plane instead of a bus!

[@venetiaanortrup8514]

Of course she denies it. How convient the cams are down.

[@falcon3268]

How convient that when they pull the tape they find that the tape isn't working. What does that tell you?

[@terrygreene1555]

She a demacrapp

[@they.luv_talking7603]

I love how she denies saying that but knowing little kids why would they make stuff up about this

[@matthewmartinez3907]

The monitoring system was not working, and something like that incident so happened to occur. If I were one of the parents I’d feel very skeptical that it not working was a coincidence.

[@alyssa2796]

Also whats the point of having the system if it’s not working

[@ingamingpc1634]

To be fair sometimes they can malfunction and not work but that's why you get routine maintenance which means checking to make sure that it works and if it doesn't reporting the incident and assigning a bus to a new driver or the driver to a new bus to ensure that they can still keep the same safety precautions they drop the ball to school and the company that hires bus drivers

[@swschrader1981]

I do know depending on the year of bus like the new ones or in the last 10 years the busses have GPS trackers on them and the bus company can tell where the bus has been or one like a black box like for a airplane..

[@jonwhick3073]

Even older ones have after market gps/camera systems but your right all new ones have a blackbox like systems even new cars have them

[@katiea2228]

How convenient the tapes didn’t work 😂

[@Milesco]

Yeah, they _never_ work when it's a government employee who's being investigated.

[@sharongagnist6428]

what about going to a store instead of just taking the kids to school?

[@ss-wh3sx]

i bet they deleted the video

[@weltonvillegal6258]

Suckers bet there.

[@JessicaRodriguez-bg6gu]

How do you go to the wrong way of every bus driver know where to go when it’s a short trip and never tell Childern that. I don’t care if there wasn’t video tape. If those students all say the same story it’s true.

[@MrMelgibstein]

The children are the real heroes,they actually wanted to go school and not the country store,good for them.

[@kurtmorris454]

I say this over and over again, how stupid is our court system when you have several children witnessing one thing yet the suspect denies it and that has more merit then anything else? especially when she deliberately went the wrong way? She has demonstrated that she absolutely can't be trusted around children and not only be fired, but banned from ever being around a child under 18 including her own children.

[@jonny777bike]

Best thing is for buses is to have cameras to monitor the driver as well as the students.

[@trevor8419]

I never threatened my kids that I’d crash the bus. I may have mentioned something about driving down a boat ramp. Never crashing though, that crosses a line.

[@justinsmolik2834]

sounds like you should reprogram your gps, michael scott

[@aliciamelendez5476]

The "school bus driver" lost her job, her driver's license, and her freedom for refusing to head to the school in order to drop the student off at their school instead of going shopping first.

[@fantaseagrl7787]

Mighty convenient that the cameras didn't work that day 🤨

[@aliciamelendez5476]

If there are people who do NOT care about children or do NOT like children at all, those people do NOT deserve to drive school busses everywhere. In fact, anyone who does NOT care about innocent people should NEVER be allowed to be in public everywhere.

[@kellydunigan6232]

But why are the kids put on a bus instead of the parents transporting their own children with a ride that is one mile? I'm not excusing the behavior of the driver, that person should be fired. Just slightly odd in comparison to how things are done where I am from.

[@scottdowney4865]

If they have to walk along or cross a major road they get bus transportation even if it's within a mile...at least where I'm from.

[@chrisjury6931]

Big News day!! I can remember trips on the school bus back in the day...my sincere apologies to the bus drivers! This sounds like a cranky bus driver overwrought by a bus load of excited noisy kids. Here's a couple of points where I think i can put enough doubt in your mind to change your thinking (maybe I'm reaching):: One. The bus company will have a policy about traveling directly to a destination without detours for personal shopping and I presume they had inducted the substitute driver so they would be aware of them. If not then I think the bus company has a problem. Two. Telling children "to behave and settle down otherwise I'll crash the bus" could be read two ways. One as a threat (which young children would have naturally concluded as they process language literally at that age) or two as an implied safety warning which aught to have been communicated like "it's dangerous for me to drive when you're being noisy and distracting me, it might cause me to crash the bus, so settle down and then we can go" . Can we be absolutely sure what was said was meant as a threat or a warning? Three: If it cannot be a warning - can we be absolutely honest whether the threat was intended as a real threat and likely to be actionable or was it one of those spontaneous brain farts - a throwaway line from a moody overwrought driver, have we all not had times like these as a parent? Four. Children do lie but generally only do so for their own preservation. Here the boy talks about the conduct of the driver and I think we can absolutely rely on it to the extent he is able to communicate his perception of what happened. The question really was he capable of accurately perceiving the all participants behavior during the episode to give us what we'd need to judge the drivers response to the situation. Five. It's important for parents and teachers and the rest of us, not to blow up these issues in front of the kids. You'll end up traumatizing them and they'll become incredibly fearful and risk adverse - that's not the kind of people they want to be. Six. The tape aught to have worked. Why was it not working? Again the company /school is accountable to the kids and parents for making sure this stuff is always fully operational.

[@EricWhiteTheGamer]

There is enough with evidence for her to go to jail, I would say kidnapping and 4th degree attempt of murder but they can’t even though realistically that is what it could be.

[@diamondzimmerman5803]

That is so hurtful.

[@alexandrawilson1998]

This is why the parents should get charged and kids expelled and driver should get paid

[@mikemclaughlin1756]

you should be upset with your children for not being quite

[@minnipearls3633]

Kids speak up anymore and take everything at heart. Which is good. Kids tell all now. Which is good.

[@robbiesmith5752]

My school bus has seat belts and that very very safe🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@moo3oo3oo3]

Buses are already one of the safest vehicles. The seatbelts honestly just take up space.

[@KrazyMCGaming]

moo3oo3oo3 DaKow you kidding? look up bus crashes lmao

[@cierradunham4296]

@@moo3oo3oo3 no they aren't! Look up bus crashes! Kids got majorly hurt! How is that safe?!

[@cierradunham4296]

@@moo3oo3oo3 I'd rather have space taken up than risk getting hurt or killed in a crash, who ever told you busses are one of the safest vehicles is an idiot honestly

[@forget-me-notlawncare9821]

@@cierradunham4296 actually, they are very safe. We had a bus rear-ended by a strung-out crackhead acouple of years ago. The bus was going about 35, getting up to speed on a speed limit 60 road and was rear-ended buy a vehicle going approximately 115-120 mph. The students on the bus were checked out in the hospital, spent the night at home, and were all at school the next day. The design of the bus and the way it absorbed the impact saved their lives. The crackhead wasn't so lucky. What is not safe is having each child seat-belted in a seat and expecting a driver to figure out how they're going to release and rescue 45 plus students with a bus that is potentially on fire. School buses and their seats are designed to protect students when they are riding in the seat properly. Seat belts are more of a false sense of security in this case.

[@dianadouglas9433]

Believe what the kids are saying not the bus driver

[@martin2560]

You couldn't pay me enough to drive a school bus. Torture it must be driving those little Spawn's of Satan.

[@carolbradley2639]

Hello, so the bus survelance tape wasn't working that day, but say you have half of the students saying the bus driver said she would wreck the bus then take the students word for it. Fire the substitute bus driver and find a better one.

[@dreamworkmakestheteamwork9975]

oh well if its in tennasee that explains alot

[@SuperWilljoe]

why don't you explain that to us

[@dreamworkmakestheteamwork9975]

@@SuperWilljoe go there and youll realize

[@bearsandboys9536]

Hey!

[@ZeldagigafanMatthew]

Don't these buses have GPS trackers? I can understand if it needed to detour due to a closed intersection, but going this far off course should automatically get police cruisers sent.

[@Djevan41598]

That bus driver should have been fired and arrested

[@jmpalong8331]

Kids are kids, so if you can't take the noise of kids on a bus then what in the---- are you doing driving it. No kid or kids lie about something like that.

[@davidhanson7630]

If it was untrue why have all the kids reported this. Isn't it so convenient the tapes don't work but wonder if a child made threats against the driver would the tapes work. The tape recordings should always be checked for the safety of transportation of any child.

[@aliciamelendez5476]

To the substitute female school bus driver in this video: You should've taken the kids to school which is in the north and then gone south to the convenience store. In fact, you should NEVER be allowed to drive any vehicle if you only want to do what you want.

[@TheAtlantaRailfan]

Better than the bus driver who didn't stop look and listen at the train crossing and got the bus hit by a CSX freight train in Tennga Georgia which left three children dead and several severely injured. The bus driver went through the crossing frequently and never once stopped or even turned off the radio and listened the bus driver lied to the district attorneys office after the wreck the driver pleaded guilty to 3 counts of criminally negligent homicide and 4 counts of reckless aggravated assault but was only sentenced to 90 days in jail.

[@kevinraymcgaugh7164]

She just wants the kids to behave

[@thereaper1321]

Multiple kids complains about bus driver threatening to crash the bus so they ask the bus driver she said no so... What is that it wtf some system we got going on around here

[@phyllismontoroula6454]

Why would bus driver get out of bus not watching the children shes not safe and telling them she crash the bus I would never want my child on that bus

[@brittanyfischer1812]

I wouldn't want to be a bus driver go to the corner store. Why would a bus driver threatened to crash the school bus because the kids aren't behaving. How scary. I wouldn't want to be on that school bus

[@aussie8114]

My school bus trip was about 1 hour and the driver was an absolute lunatic. These kids have nothing to complain about.

[@Devski007]

My bus driver also said that she would crash the bus l. But like I mean we where all annoying as hell 1st graders to 6th graders so uh idk

[@jimwilloughby]

Just as school teachers should be paid like rock stars, school bus drivers should be highly paid even if they have very short hours. However, those drivers must be the best on the road, rigidly trained, and should go through a rigorous background check. The stress of driving a school bus, sl9ng with what I've already mentioned is justification enough for the high pay.

[@the_ltz_guymaster7912]

It’s possible the driver is telling truth if a bus driver is strict or says to constantly stop kids can say this or that to get a different driver so they don’t have to follow rules kids can lie

[@kerplunk10788]

Proof?

[@walkbyfaithtinadavis7820]

Do not they have cameras with sound like we do on our buses

[@oldschool5539]

Polygraph test the driver!

[@Thelift2013]

BUS IN KINDERGARDEN!??? WTH

[@ShilohTN1969]

She probably meant that their obnoxious behavior might cause her to crash the bus...and it could happen.

[@patryan3989]

Are you seriously defending a school bus driver who went in the completely wrong direction and stopped at a convenience store with the kids inside?

[@michellegomez9114]

Get a different job if you can’t handle kids.

[@annieridesagain3867]

In my county if we behave badly on the school bus the driver reports it to the head of school . Then we get punished or our bus passes are taken away .

[@pegasusgalaxy68]

Kids should of been behaving no matter what. But obviously they were not and all here say.

[@bonniepawson8840]

Let me say this...Not all school bus drivers are perfect. Example: I worked for a school dist. for 33 year and have seen a lot of bad stuff and great stuff from school bus drivers. There was a driver of special needs children that took the kids to a park. lined them up along the outside of the bus and started doing some sort of chanting, she was trying to rid them from being possessed by the devil. A school bus driver years ago was witnessed saying watch me destroy that teenager in his sports car and she proceeded to turn off her street and driver right over the top of my friends TR3, breaking both his arms and legs. Then the creepy pedophile driver who was told by the dist. to choose to leave or be charged. Now this guy I found a year later working at a daycare with very young children. I of course talked to one of the other helpers asking why did they hire this sex offender and told them why he had to leave the school dist. Be good parents and get to know the drivers of your children. You can't always trust what a school dist. says about them.

[@kellydunigan6232]

And the bus video? There should be one for the bus installed by school system right?

[@sendit1158]

I THINK THE DRIVER MEANT IM GOING TO WRECK THE BUS IF YOU DON'T BE QUIET YOU KIDS ARE GONNA CAUSE A ACCIDENT AND MAKE ME CRASH. NOT ON PURPOSE

[@richardyork9495]

Well what do you expect..they’re bus drivers..low pay,minimal hours but most importantly...any company that sits outside grocery stores looking for employees to hire, is not a company I want my child’s safety entrusted with

[@moquilla1]

They must’ve really been annoying....Thant or she’s crazy....I’d like to think they were just acting like fools.

[@fabeiontatum205]

That's why he being crazy

[@Russellviews]

Driver likely said if you brats don't STHU you will make me crash the bus.

[@alexneil9116]

Hmm these days they hire anyone to drive the bus.

[@tarzanappleseed5424]

Wow, how convenient! Gee, the tape doesn't work. How bout that😒😒😒

[@knittingnana2939]

She most likely said "if you dont calm down, the bus might crash"

[@NiceModz06KMT]

Did they behave?

[@Cynthia-ql9te]

I believe the children .

[@bebesplayhouse4933]

I believe the kids.

[@vincentwendt720]

The tape didn't work, how convenient.

[@beastsquad3227]

Why don't they have GPS's put on buses especially in this day and age not like we don't have the technology it's cheap never know get a crazy bus driver that just feels like running off with a whole bunch of kids and when stuff like this happens there should be someone that dispatch watching the GPS making sure everybody's on route and on track and if they're not they can radio on them to see what's going on

[@asbjrne.stackmest5015]

Sorry we lied about her sayin she is gona crash the bus, ooop

[@fernandohernandez5859]

Seems more of a like "keep quiet or I will turn this bus around" comment. Never this serious dude you all know kids are just sensitive little dudes stop listening they really believed they was gonna die never that serious tell them to calm down

[@jcchristopher1417]

I was thinking the same thing. This whole thing is just stupid and completely blown out of proportion for sure. Especially these days; kids know how to embellish to their advantage and get somebody in trouble for absolutely nothing.

[@rukiakuchiki6187]

What episode happened in Tennessee?

[@simmons5671]

Sakura Haruno the Chattanooga Bus crash a couple of years back that killed 6 kids.

[@rukiakuchiki6187]

@@simmons5671 oh that's very sad

[@simmons5671]

Sakura Haruno yup.

[@rukiakuchiki6187]

@@simmons5671 👌👍

[@viking956]

Yea I'm sure little angel Cameron didn't have anything to do with the unruly students.

[@1dallasstarsfan]

Yup lol..

[@tammieknuth6020]

Gods wrath/Karma

[@kevinraymcgaugh7164]

Maybe she had a good 👍🏼 Reason

[@acethedriver2895]

It doesn't give the school bus driver a right to make violent threats there's no excuses for making violent threats which is a threat to commit an act of terrorism learn the law bro.

[@Dobiegal]

Ok she shouldn't have made the pit stop. But telling them she'll crash the bus, get a grip snowflake parents... maybe you should teach your children to sit down on the bus or you'll crash a paddle on their glutes.

[@garrettledwick2891]

Lol

[@ahill4642]

The thumbnail is adorable. "Child Name, Rides the Bus." Like his purpose in life is riding the bus. Just cute to me. ☺️ (I needed that today.) LOL... "Behave or else." Classic parenting low point phrase. Yeah, threatening to crash the bus... a whole other level of lame. Not cool.

[@mikalabaker6110]

What about going to the convenience store OUTSIDE her route, not that it would be okay if it was on the route, either.

[@jonwhick3073]

Loud and mean

[@antoniorivera6939]

Wow

[@willyjoerockhead]

Big deal...ive had bus drivers who said much worse than that. Anyway ...the bus driver probably meant she could get distracted and crash the bus...not that she would do it on purpose.

[@mikalabaker6110]

I doubt that's what she meant.

[@kristic4472]

i believe the kids, and what episode happened in Tennessee?

[@andicantu6490]

That’s what they do in China. A woman was yelling at a bus driver as he was driving and then slapped him, and the bus driver drove off the bridge they were on, plunging into the water below. That bus did have a camera. It’s on KZbin.

[@markhuotari3816]

Cool

[@amyhyde70]

Do you think those kids really believed she would crash the bus? That boy was not a baby. These kids are taught to be snowflakes. They will be problems in the future.

[@gregorkrause]

Amy Hyde yes i believe these kids and no they are not taught to be snowflakes and will be future heroes and not snowflakes in the future.

[@AnguishedMan]

@@gregorkrause And I believe you are an idiot

[@billybassman21]

I don't see anything that happened that constituted all this outrage. People are too sensitive.

[@alexmunch9275]

Sensitive? I’m sorry but no parent wants a dangerous bus driver handling their kids.

[@billybassman21]

@@alexmunch9275 They all sounded like a bunch of wusses.

[@gregorkrause]

billybassman21 no people are not always sensitive, and there wasn't a working video camera and the kid in the intro would never ever make up something this dangerous or outlandish.

[@randybryant4711]

This kid lied about the incident

[@JadenYukifan28]

how do you know that, just because the tape wasn't working?

[@ViewingWhateverThisIs]

@@JadenYukifan28 Ya were is the proof that the kid lied?

[@JadenYukifan28]

@@ViewingWhateverThisIs exactly, why lie about something like that?

[@ViewingWhateverThisIs]

@@JadenYukifan28 Ya there’s no proof that he lied and also other kids say the same thing he’s saying so that must mean something. There’s no way a group of kids go and lie for no reason. Evan the parents who raised them should know if there kids are lying and they say that there not lying,

[@JadenYukifan28]

@@ViewingWhateverThisIs Exactly my point, there would be witnesses, also, who are they going to believe? The SUB Bus Driver or a Bus FULL of kids?

[@christinaf713]

I have a bus story. So my oldest is on the autism spectrum. he was upset one day because the bus driver wouldn't let him out off the bus to wait for his cab (The bus wouldn't take him all the way home so the bus would take him to a certain point and then a cab would take him the rest of the way home), And this caused him to have a meltdown because he was freaking out because the bus driver wouldn't let him off And he thought that he wasn't going to be able to get home. Then the bus driver threatened to call the police on him instead of trying to calm him down and redirecting him which caused him to kick at the bus driver cuz he was trying to get away At some point the bus driver ended up basically taking him to the ground and choking him. My son had nail marks all over his neck and his neck was bleeding. When I asked to press charges, the police told me I could not press charges because the bus driver was elderly and was just defending himself And that my son was the first to get aggressive. . I told the police that defending himself would be properly restraining my son or holding him in a way that he can't harm anyone or harm himself. This bus driver decided to choke my son and that is not self defense. I was livid!!! I called the school and told them that if they did not fire the bus driver then I was going to get a lawyer and sue. What baffles me is why they would put someone on a special needs bus who doesn't know how to properly handle special needs kids! 🤦🤦🤦 The school ended up taking care of the issue.

[@kimberlybahrs7165]

Wow