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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And this is why no one wants to work with school districts anymore. Has anyone even suggested going to the parents of the misbehaving kids? 
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The kids are sooo loud on the bus, and they don't listen.

Maybe parents should offer to volunteer to be bus monitors.[/quote]

Or ban the kids from the bus for a week, so that parents of the unruly kids have to drive them in. Maybe *then* the parents will parent their kids.

Imagine the stress of being a bus driver - and then being blamed. I hope OP is a troll.
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OP is not a troll. My DD 14 has been taking the bus for 2+ years and this year she is flat out refusing to take the bus in the AM. Two reasons: overcrowding ( they have combined two routes in one bus) and since her stop is second last before school. There is literally a corner of a seat available for her to sit on, with a huge heavy bag and musical instrument; second the popular and some other rowdy students are too loud which makes the driver mad and makes her scream at them. The drivers also keep changing and a new driver will use a different rout and add another 10-15 mins to the already long trip ( by car it takes 7 mins to reach school, by bus is takes 35-50 mins). Certain drivers don’t let kids talk loudly but have extremely loud music blaring in the bus ( on the speaker).

There is definitely problem with both students misbehaving and certain ( especially new and inexperienced ) drivers ( who, btw, take wrong routes and speed ).

How can we start a petition for a second adult to be present on the bus? It is unfair to expect the driver to focus on safely driving and mind a bus load of teens. Alternatively, better mandatory training of all incoming and experienced drivers each year? I don’t know the solution and luckily we don’t live too far and I have a flexible job, so I can drive my child to school. However, this is not the case for a lot of parents.[/quote]

My kid who rides a bus also hates it. They claim some kids fight on the bus everyday causing problems for everyone.[/quote]

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