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Excuse my ignorance, but what's a bus monitor?

• cdr 14y ago
  You ought to be able to google it, but it's a person assigned to assist the bus driver - mainly with keeping order among students - so that the driver can concentrate on driving. Reasonably common on American schoolbuses, depending on the district.
  • laserDinosaur 14y ago
    "You ought to be able to google it", I know, but I figured there might be something specific to this case, so I thought I'd ask. "but it's a person assigned to assist the bus driver" Should she maybe not have been doing a better job of keeping the kids in line? Does she not have the power to stand up, tell them to shut up and pull the bus over? I'm not excusing their behaviour in the slightest, it just seems that she wasn't really performing the task she was hired to do.
    • gwright 14y ago
      It wouldn't surprise me if she had the responsibility for keeping order but not the authority or support (from administration and parents) to do so.
• showerst 14y ago
  Generally in the US any time there's a bus full of kids, there's an authority figure that's not a teacher in charge of discipline. Sometimes it's the driver, sometimes a separate monitor. At least when I was in grade school 15-20 years ago those people were generally not well respected by students, as they couldn't mete out real consequences for misbehavior.