Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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?

+1
The kids are sooo loud on the bus, and they don't listen.

Maybe parents should offer to volunteer to be bus monitors.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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?

+1
The kids are sooo loud on the bus, and they don't listen.

Maybe parents should offer to volunteer to be bus monitors.

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.

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.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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?

+1
The kids are sooo loud on the bus, and they don't listen.

Maybe parents should offer to volunteer to be bus monitors.

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.

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.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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?

+1
The kids are sooo loud on the bus, and they don't listen.

Maybe parents should offer to volunteer to be bus monitors.

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.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP- parents like you are driving employees out of the system. Either volunteer to help be a monitor or pull your precious snowflake off the bus. Imagine driving 30+ loud children while trying to keep them safe and tell me you don’t get stressed. So obnoxious

Is that a thing? MCPS allows random parents to ride on the school bus?

I don't think bus drivers or anybody else should be abusive, I think that's a minimum standard, and I would hope the bus depot managers would agree.

We haven’t determined that the bus driver is being verbally abusive as yet. Just that some young kids don’t like yelling.