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Bus driver Takes Ratbag Kids to Police station
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Classic, good on him.
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kids wouldnt give a shit about it. Just 20 minutes longer getting home.
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HAHA, should charge the silly twit with kidnapping.
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This is the reason why bus drives have it tough. They cant do shit because they might be charged. So the passengers can abuse throw stuff and anything they wont to the bus driver because they know the bus driver cant do anything back. My dad is now a bus driver and some of the stories are shocking. He is the one getting you from A to B so everyone should treat them with respect.Originally Posted by AirStrike
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Good on him. There's too much pussy-footing around disciplining children and adults alike, I can't think of a better outcome.
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Danja, NOTHING was done to these kids. They got home late.
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So if you were a parent you would have no problems with a bus driver taking you kids somewhere you don't know?
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If it was my kid I would be f*cked off if he/she was treating someone like that.
Good on him for taking them in, kids dont know respect these days.
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If I was expecting to pick my kids up from the bus stop and they were quite late because some sook ass bus driver took it upon himself to try and discipline them I would be royally pissed!
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if you were that parent, i'd be questioning your parenting techniques, it is clear that these kids werent raised properly, to treat everyone with respect.
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im sure that it wasnt every kid on the bus though. Id chuck the bus driver in my boot and go for a spin. He cant complain as hes done the same thing to my child. The bus driver is a dick for doing this. I doubt he will be driving buses for a while.
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the more sensible thing for the driver todo would be to confiscate the license and ban them from using the bus
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I hope that getting an earful from Johnny Law scared some of them into line, and hopefully they'll think twice next time before being disrespectful little smartarses.
It was a police station, it's not like he took them to a strip club for a "spanking".
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Still if i picked up a child and took them to the police station just because they were annoying me id be up shit creek. In my classroom at school ill just drop a few deadshit off at the cop shop next time they give me lip. lol would be interesting, doubt i would be teaching again
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It seems clear that the kids were in the wrong (at least some of them), and I don't think anyone is debating that.
So the question is, how would you have dealt with them? I can think of a few possibilities:
1) Ignore them = Fail. They'll just be back at it the next day, and the day after, and the more they get away with it the more reinforcement they're getting that their behaviour is acceptable. It's not.
2) Fly off the rails and shout/scream/swear at them = Likely fail. If they are at the point where they're throwing things and openly mouthing off at him, they clearly don't have any respect for the man so it seems unlikely they'll pay any heed to what he says - more likely they'll just laugh and it will encourage them all the more.
3) Use physical threats and/or violence = Serious fail. It might scare the kids at first, but it will land the driver in a world of shit. In the long term the kids will be told by all the adults that they were the victims, and the driver was a child abusing nutjob and it wasn't their fault etc, and any "correctional behaviour" caused by the driver will be undone.
4) Do what he did and bring in some guest speakers who will be more effective in enacting option 2.
Aside from that, there is only one further option which may have had a positive result, and that is to attempt to get the school to disciple the kids. Given that this appears to have been an emotional response, I think the parents should consider themselves bloody luck he didn't opt for option 3.
At the end of the day, the kids did the wrong thing, and they got a talking to by the police. They were never in any danger or exposed to anything unsavory. At best the learned a valuable lesson, at worst they got back to school an hour late.
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Well - I would speak to my employer and tell them of the stress this school trip is causing me. I would ask that the school principal be notified of the behaviour every single time they play up. I would eventually file a stress leave form with work cover and spend the next 3 years sipping pale ale in a deck chair in Bali.
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Hmmm... Ok, possibly there is an "option 5" I failed to consider
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Yep, the old stress leave option. Should always be considered. lol.
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I don't think you quite grasp the situation, he without permission took the children where he wasn't meant to, end of story. Did they do wrong, yes. As an adult should he have taken a different course of action, yes.
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It's not a matter of grasping it, we're just approaching it from different angles.
The man himself admitted this happened due to an accumulation of frustration over a long period of being exposed to this poor behaviour from the children. He reached his breaking point, like anyone would eventually, and given that he essentially "snapped", I think his course of action was quite rational, all things considered.
It would seem the police took no issue with what he did - for all we know the police station was on the way, or round the corner. If one of the kids was busting for the loo and he pulled into a rest area without permission I doubt anyone would have batted an eyelid.
As far as I'm concerned, the kids had it coming, and nothing he did caused them any danger or serious inconvenience.
Even the principle was saying he was disappointed at the kids, not the driver.
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Sounds like your the one over reacting Airstrike.....if my kids were playing up on the bus or was on a bus with kids playing up and they made a detour to a POLICE STATION then its fine by me....all your promoting with your idealism is teaching your kid contempt for authority.....as an adult he took a course of action he felt warranted the situation AT THE TIME....no use coming in spinner after the fact...
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If your child was playing up at school would you have a problem with the teacher taking them to the police station?
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An idividual childs parents would be contacted in that situation.
A bus full of out of control children however, I see no harm in it.
It's not like he drove them to north-west bum f**k and said 'Get Out', he drove them to the Police station for a bit of size 10 up the ass.
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A highly doubt it was the whole bus acting up, another case of some old bloke who can't handle the job.
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