Bus Driver Fired for Flipping Off Bush

I think she was setting a bad example for the children. Whether or not she agrees with what the president is doing in the country today, the fact of the matter is that he is still the president. The president of the United States of America deserves to be treated with respect. We have enough problems with our young people being disrespectful! I have a huge problem with our tax dollars going to pay someone who exibits this kind of behavior. I also think it is immature to give someone the finger. Maybe she needs to grow up. Sometimes we are so concerned about our right to free speech that we forget our manners.

well honestly of my son was on that bus and he came home to tell me what his bus driver did i would not care who she was flipping off that is not acceptable to do in front of children.

The whole point is that its unacceptable to do that in front of children. Shes setting a bad example for them. Whether it was bush or the mailman, she shouldn't have let kids see it. I'd be ticked, too, if my kid had been on that bus.

I don't think she deserves her job back. Especially if that is the kind of behavior she shows in front of the children. I wouldn't want my children learning to flip someone off from the school bus driver! If she constantly arrived late, I would think that would have been enough of a reason. Kids have to be at school on time. It isn't a job that she can just decide to leave 15 minutes late for! Frankly, I don't care who she flipped off. President Bush has probably seen and heard worse directed towards him. But the fact that she did it in front of children...that deserves some type of punishment.

It's not appropriate behavior. She was on the job, she was in front of children who are impressionable, and she had a responsibility to show a good example to others. If she'd yelled out something vulgar about anyone she would have still been in trouble. Giving someone the bird is just as bad. I know in the state I live in if the cops seeing you flipping someone the bird while you are driving you will be ticketed for road rage. It doesn't matter who she was flipping off, she was giving the example to kids that it was all right to do this. Also I doubt the school would state that they had problems with her work if they couldn't show proof of this. This could have just been the straw that broke the camel's back and they said enough. Either way though the bus driver was wrong to do this, it doesn't matter who she was flipping off. She should have known better and should have acted appropriately.

I've read an article and the way I see it she was fired for doing it in front of the students. i don;t think it would have mattered who it was. That is inappropiate behavoir for an adult to display in front of children I don't car how she feels about someone. That's not freedom of speech it's just plain chldish. I wouldn't want my children beign driven around by someone who acts they way in front of them.

well..if she was late all the time...then they were just over lookin it...this might of been the last straw then....but if it was me...I'w oulda gave him a double bird!...lol...drive the bus up on his front lawn and do it..lol

I feel that the school had come up with those reasons as to why the bus driver was fired perhaps as a cover for the true reasons why she was fired: because she insulted Bush who threatens the very meaning of democracy. If her attitude was so rotten the school should have fired her long ago and no waited until now to fire her.

unfortunately, i think they've got her here. This was inappropriate behavior in front of children, and I certainly wouldn't want my child riding on a bus with a driver who made profane gestures, I don't care who it was towards.

i will forgive you if this discussion has already been posted because you have not seen it and you also not have been online.

denied freedom of speech? or freedom to use vulgar hand gestures/??

u r the rock great job carry on.

I have to give the woman props. there aren't too many times in life that you can flip off a president. i would relish the opportunity myself. After all, you must have seen the video of Bush flipping the bird to the camera when he thought that it was turned off. If any president can appreciate the bird it's probably Bush.

Exactly, where is the freedom of speech in that? Who cares about bush, really? he is just another man. If the driver was to flip off some guy on the street, nobody would care. what makes bush so special??

If that´s truth, if it was by flipping Bush so half American nation it would be without job in the next days, don´t you think. For me everyone it´s free to say whatever but bus driver from schools should avoid some comments because children are not interested in politicians.

It was inappropriate behavior. If she was on her own time no kids fine, she should be terminated. I think she as an adult should set a good example for the kids, and that was rude behavior. Yes, we have freedom of speech, but by the same token her employer has the right to determine what they deemed is inappropriate. When you are in an employment situation, you need to sit down and think about the company guidelines before you act. You indicated she was a problem bus driver, they probably wanted to get rid of her and this was the final straw.

why didnt the sack her before it is because americans can be jailed for saying anything against their president

u r the rock great job carry on.

Freedom of speach. Hmm. I do not think that we truly have that pleasure. When ever I speak about abortion and my view on it, I get into trouble (I think that your killing a baby and should be tried just like a crim), I think that public shools have become a bredding ground for crim. I get into trouble, I say moms should stay home with their kids or at least one of the parents instead of shipping them off to childcare (there are jobs one can have at night that pay pretty well, and are not illegal or immoral, I have done so and made 43 a yr doing it, and before I had my child I made 67 so where there is a will there is a way). No I think that the bus driver should have been fired. It is disrespectful to flip Any one off, and more so the president. She is teaching children to be rude, have bad manners and break the law in the future. It sounds like she is a loud mouth and wants attention and some money. There are a lot of people IE the media who portay America as this horrible place of immorality, likes to stick their nose where it does not belong, are power hungry fools. We are not; that is just the media and I find it sad that so many are sucked in to that foolishness. America is ASKED to help other countries, it is our duty as humans to help one another, and it is so sad that people are fooled into thinking different.

If I was in the position of the bus driver, I would say that being fired is a reasonable action. The driver made a rude gesture to the president in front of the children. The parents would want the driver fired. If I had a child on the bus, I would made sure that the driver would not drive the children because the bus drivers are suppossed to be a role model to the children.