Making the bus Monitor Cry
By bobmnu
@bobmnu (8157)
United States
June 22, 2012 4:21pm CST
This has been on the news for a couple of days and it is disgusting. What is even more disgusting is that this goes on far more than people know. I had to handle bus discipline for different schools that I worked for. It is almost common place for students to insult the Bus Driver and or the Monitor. I have ridden the buses and talked parents afterwards and the parents feel the drivers and monitors need to get a thicker skin. What is even more disturbing is that no other children tried to stop the bulling.
http://blastmagazine.com/the-magazine/technology/tech-news/viral-video-making-the-bus-monitor-cry/
Have we as a society taught children that it is alright to pick on adults. If that Bus Monitor had slapped one of the children, which they deserved, she would be charged with assault and lose her job. If the boys did that to another student and the student fought back he would be seen as justified.
I was involved in a case where the teacher and school got sued because the student took a swing at the teacher and the teacher ducked and the student broke his arm when it hit the door frame and wall. It was cheaper for the insurance company to pay the medical bills than fight the case in court. To the Student and his parents he was justified in trying to hit the teacher and the teacher was wrong to duck.
These boys set out to humiliate and get a reaction from the bus monitor. I think they wanted her to explode and yell and scream at the boys and may be even get physical. my suggestion to the School Board is to expel the boys from the bus for at least one year and let the parents be inconvenienced for the year.
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5 responses
@PhillyDreamer (3039)
• United States
22 Jun 12
I can tell you if my child acted like this, they would have Hell to pay when I found out about it. I wonder if she reported this behavior to the parents at all.
@PhillyDreamer (3039)
• United States
23 Jun 12
Still if that bus monitor had come to me, I would have showed my kids the error of showing off in front of their friends. So either she didnt report the incidents to the proper people, or the people she reported the incidents too, were negligent in their jobs to handle the situation. Somebody drop the ball on this one, because children should not be allowed to act this way.
@bobmnu (8157)
• United States
23 Jun 12
In most schools she would write a referral to school officals and they would deal with it. The problem is that is not much the school can do until it gets almost to the criminal stage. In many school districts you can not keep a student after school unless the parents have 24 hours notice. So an incident that occurs on Monday afternoon the Principal get the referral Tuesday morning. He may see the student later in the afternoon and and it may be the next morning before he can contact the parents so the student is given detention on Thursday afternoon if the parents agree. Principals I know have been told by School Boards to work out something else so the parents aren't inconvenience. If the student is identified as a Special Education student you may face additional hurdles in dealing with the student.
Just to show how ridiculous it can get, several years ago a High School Principal was sued in Federal Court for illegal seizure of a student. What happened was two girls were fighting and the principal stepped in and grabbed one girl by the arm and pulled her off the second girl and preventing her from hitting the second girl. The girls father sued and found a lawyer who took the case pro bono. The school district and the principal paid over $25,000 in legal fees only to have the judge throw the case out of court. The father just wanted to prove that they couldn't push his daughter around.
@PhillyDreamer (3039)
• United States
23 Jun 12
The school can do a lot of things. Making a good effort to contact the parents should be the first thing, and if the parent neglects his responsibility, the next step is suspension until the parent comes to the school and listens to the grievances against the child. If the parent still fails to discipline then the next step is expulsion. The parent can deal with the fact that his child will have to go to a school for behavioral problems.
@missliss08 (766)
• United States
23 Jun 12
I can't believe they kept doing it even while being taped. Have they never heard of Youtube? Chances are yes, they have, and if they know anything about anything then they know that the more views and hits the video gets they get paid some money. Of course that would mean they are a Youtube affiliate, which I don't think they are old enough to be. My point being, the more we sensationalize these Youtube vidoes the more money potentially the one posting the video can make. With that little blurb out of the way, I hate it when parents say my kid would never do that. Kids will do that, especially when in a group, dared, egged on, bullied, want to look cool or tough. Kids are mean, and all kids have the potential to be mean. With that said I think this bunch has learned that when things go viral you might get famous for all the wrong reasons. The school said they don't even know if by policy they can punish them.
@bobmnu (8157)
• United States
23 Jun 12
The school can use the safety factor that the students are creating a disturbance on the bus and endangering the others on the bus.
As to the Youtube and getting paid, if the boys are charged and found guilty the aid could sue for the profits because people can not profit from their crimes.
@bobmnu (8157)
• United States
24 Jun 12
He was part of the act. He recorded it and then posted or allowed it to be posted. If he had recorded it and taken it to the school officials then I would say he was not party to the crime. By recording and sharing it with even one other student he was Harassing the lady. She did tell them to stop, which is all that is required to move it to a violation. In many states it is illegal to record a person without their permission, when they are the main target of the recording. In many cases he is as guilty as the children doing the Harassing.
@missliss08 (766)
• United States
23 Jun 12
The boy that taped the incident was not a participant of the abuse, so he would not be up for any crimes.
@KrauseHome (36448)
• United States
23 Jun 12
Personally I am sure she is way far from being the first one ever having something like this happen to them, and I am sure she will not be the last. The only thing that makes this different is this was caught and put on Youtube, etc. for the world to see. Yes, I do think the school needs to punish these kids, and all schools be made to know this cannot happen and will be looked into severely. As to punishment for the kids... I think something really does need to be done.
@twconroy (11)
• United States
23 Jun 12
Many of the little darlings have indicated regret since the incident - have to wonder how many really meant it. Funny, you never heard about stuff like this 40 years ago but then again parents are too busy working to discipline their children today. Even when they do have time parents are too concerned with being "friends" rather than being parents.
@abhishekpb (65)
• India
23 Jun 12
government should implement new rules like helping conductors to have few of the rights like policemen so that the children don't dare to do it again
