Dad threatens bus bullies targeting his daughter...............
As a mom.........jail or no jail.. ( just like this dad did..) I would have been raising some hell...
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4341249/arrested-for-defending-his-daughter/
I would have liked to have seen him take some other steps first. With other like minded parents, who also had kids on that bus, call, then go to the office, demand an appointment with the driver, (who did let him on the bus) and the school principal that the situation be handled. The school could have made other transportation arrangements for the child until things settled down. The kids on the bus who misbehaved should have been disciplined the first time there was a problem. Their parents should have been made to show up at school for a meeting with the admonishment that their kids lost their bus privileges until the meeting was held. The police could have been called if nothing was done the first time and a threat to call the media may have been a good "big stick" too.
He did! He did everything he thought he should do to stop it.. went to the school system ( as that was where it was happening) and in his mind ...I am sure needed it stopped NOW! Not after the system piddle-dicked it to death and did nothing.
Then the driver should have been fired for letting it continue. This all should have happened after the FIRST incident.There should have never been a second one.
The bus must have had a camera on it, the bus driver should have taken that to the Principal if he couldn't stop the abuse. The parent should never have had to take matters into his own hands. Can't blame him for doing it if the school didn't care. For things to get that out of control was putting all of the students in jeopardy.
This isn't about bullying on the bus, but it was one bus driver's solution to a problem. One of my husband's brothers was a school bus driver and his problem was just rowdyness on the bus. This was way before things got to the place they are now. His solution was to drive out of town, stop the bus and inform the student's that that was as far as they were going until everyone was sitting and quiet. They sat for awhile, but it seems the student's really wanted to go home.
Bus drivers do that here too. I've seen a bus in front of my house more than once with the driver reading a newspaper waiting for the kids to settle down. Eventually they do.
There are so many options that a bus driver has to protect the students. No parent should have to feel like they have to go to those lengths to protect their child.
Stopping the bus and reading the paper is a great solution.
That dad shouldn't have threatened those kids...
He should have dragged their butts off that bus and beat the crap out of them.
Well, on so many levels the school should be held accountable for what the kids were doing to this little girl. It is so wrong! I get calls from the bus superindent when my kids miss behave on the bus and also have gotten called by parents. I take care of the problem right then and there. I do not stand for any bulling! If the school was notified, I wonder why they did nothing about it. When you have a special needs student, and that is what this little girl was, they are required by law to provide that child with a way to and from school. That is what the law states. And it should be a ride that is not harmful to the little girl. If that was my child, I probably wouldn't have stormed the bus. I would have pulled her out of school, actually and got me a lawyer. If the guy actually called the proper chains, such as principal, superindent of schools, bus driver, and still nothing done, that is what I would have done. Because to me this should not ever happen to a child. Every child should be able to attend school without threats and such!
I'm surprised that little girl could even ride a regular bus with no lift or aide unless she was lucky enough to have a rather mild disability. I'm sorry that for some the only solution to most anything is violence. That can backfire. I don't agree that it's a very good role model for kids. Some on here have said themselves that no one else but them lays a hand or their child. Wouldn't the other kids' parents feel the same way?
On the one hand some say to whip the child in school who disobeys the teacher, then others don't want their child touched by anyone else except themselves.There are a lot on mixed messages flying around here. I wrote earlier a number of other ways that the situation could have been handled. Something absolutely should have been done by the school authorities, at least the transportation director, but having an angry father on a bus also scaring kids who had nothing to do with the incident could have sent other parents to school complaining about him! Suppose he had completely lost it and took a gun on the bus? He was obviously not in control of himself! Why did the driver let him on in the first place? That angry father could have taken the driver hostage!
Those perpetrators should have been reported to the school by the bus driver and should have lost their bus privileges right after the first incident. No tolerance, period! I'd love to know the real details and the end of the story.
The father has apologized for his behavior and his lawyer is saying that he has volunteered to do community service.
Great! That sends a positive message. Any idea what became of the tormentors?
Have read no news of what happened to them.