Post by bigern809 on Oct 3, 2018 17:09:19 GMT -6
Ern here, not Wig (and this is all true)
As I'm driving to my apartment today after school, I'm stopped behind a vehicle that is behind a bus unloading children at my apartment complex. I'm sitting there waiting for the bus to keep on its route and drop these other youngsters off at their designated location. The bus is taking longer than usual to drop these kids off. I notice, after a minute or so, that there are 4 junior high age children off the bus and are yelling and pointing. At first glance, I thought they were yelling at pointing at something going on across the road in the Kroger parking lot, but there was no such disturbance. The vehicle in front of me is growing impatient (I am in Houston after all), so they merge into the left lane and pass the bus. I roll up a bit and stop. Still looking at these kids that are pointing and yelling, I notice the bus is rocking ever so slightly side to side. Finally, realization sets in that there is a fight at the back of the bus.
I throw my vehicle in park, turn my hazards on, and leap out of my car. I open the rear door to the bus, jump up with the limber ease of a puma cat (ok, that's a lie. I did the fat, white girl scurry up) and separate these two junior high girls punching and hair pulling. I get those 2 settled down and make one move to the front. In the meanwhile, I'm looking for the bus driver. She is at the front of the bus on the radio, as I'm sure is standard protocol. After I get everything settled, I exit the rear of the bus and close the door and walk around to the front. The bus driver opens the doors and thanks me profusely and says no, she doesn't need any help.
Now.....I completely understand that bus drivers don't "get paid enough" just like us teachers, but why in the name of George Foreman would ANYONE just let this occur. Let me rephrase. Why would a grown azz adult let this occur? I mean they were only junior high kids.....what in the world has this world gone to? HOw can people just stand around while we tear each other apart? I came home and started doing some school work but came back to this thought....how did the world get this way?
Now this is not a rant or rave on society, though I know it'll end up that way by the end of this thread, but are morals really that lost? I'm usually a glass half full type person. Anyone that truly cares about kids, and their growth in class and on the field, should see a glimmer of hope in our future. I see it every day. Even in the kids that irritate me to no end on the daily. I see the good in them. There is good everywhere, but where there is bad.....there is BAD.
I'm not sure where else I'm going with this post. I guess bottom line was that I was shocked that the kids AND the bus driver didn't try to break up a junior high girl fight.
As I'm driving to my apartment today after school, I'm stopped behind a vehicle that is behind a bus unloading children at my apartment complex. I'm sitting there waiting for the bus to keep on its route and drop these other youngsters off at their designated location. The bus is taking longer than usual to drop these kids off. I notice, after a minute or so, that there are 4 junior high age children off the bus and are yelling and pointing. At first glance, I thought they were yelling at pointing at something going on across the road in the Kroger parking lot, but there was no such disturbance. The vehicle in front of me is growing impatient (I am in Houston after all), so they merge into the left lane and pass the bus. I roll up a bit and stop. Still looking at these kids that are pointing and yelling, I notice the bus is rocking ever so slightly side to side. Finally, realization sets in that there is a fight at the back of the bus.
I throw my vehicle in park, turn my hazards on, and leap out of my car. I open the rear door to the bus, jump up with the limber ease of a puma cat (ok, that's a lie. I did the fat, white girl scurry up) and separate these two junior high girls punching and hair pulling. I get those 2 settled down and make one move to the front. In the meanwhile, I'm looking for the bus driver. She is at the front of the bus on the radio, as I'm sure is standard protocol. After I get everything settled, I exit the rear of the bus and close the door and walk around to the front. The bus driver opens the doors and thanks me profusely and says no, she doesn't need any help.
Now.....I completely understand that bus drivers don't "get paid enough" just like us teachers, but why in the name of George Foreman would ANYONE just let this occur. Let me rephrase. Why would a grown azz adult let this occur? I mean they were only junior high kids.....what in the world has this world gone to? HOw can people just stand around while we tear each other apart? I came home and started doing some school work but came back to this thought....how did the world get this way?
Now this is not a rant or rave on society, though I know it'll end up that way by the end of this thread, but are morals really that lost? I'm usually a glass half full type person. Anyone that truly cares about kids, and their growth in class and on the field, should see a glimmer of hope in our future. I see it every day. Even in the kids that irritate me to no end on the daily. I see the good in them. There is good everywhere, but where there is bad.....there is BAD.
I'm not sure where else I'm going with this post. I guess bottom line was that I was shocked that the kids AND the bus driver didn't try to break up a junior high girl fight.
