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Nobody has an issue with a book - the policy came about because of the risk involved in other things - probably video games, etc... in which kids were jumping u
by ghshephard 12y ago
Nobody has an issue with a book - the policy came about because of the risk involved in other things - probably video games, etc... in which kids were jumping up to see what others were doing, resulting in injuries or hazards that occur when you have young kids jumping about a bus. There is no way for the bus driver to monitor exactly what each student actually has taken out, so they came out with a blanket rule saying, "Nothing whatsoever is allowed to be taken out of the bag."
And what choice do you have if you are a kid taking a school bus.
- PeterWhittaker 12y agoNobody has an issue with a book I beg your pardon, but that is patently false. From the article: The bus driver suggested fellow students might stand up to see what she was reading or she might poke herself in the eye with the corners of the book. Let's repeat that, shall we? Poke herself in the eye with the corners of the book.
- ghshephard 12y agoI, I, I have no response. I totally missed that when reading the article. I'm flabbergasted.
- HeyLaughingBoy 12y agodafuq? And I thought I was being a overprotective yesterday when my 5 year-old was digging worms out of the dirt and dropping them into the chicken run and I kept warning him to keep his fingers out of the mesh because the rooster was really mean and would bite him. Seriously? An effing book?
- clort 12y agoWhat is completely wrong about this situation is that of course you are correct, there is no way for the bus driver to monitor anything about the students in the back of the bus. The bus driver is busy, driving the bus and their attention should be wholly on the road ahead. If the bus driver is noticing an 8yr old sitting quietly reading, then he is not paying enough attention to that road.. What is needed here, is not any kind of stupid rule saying that they can't take 'things' out of their bag, but a student supervisor on the bus. If students are actually jumping around then the supervisor needs to stop that.
- ghshephard 12y agoAlternatively, do it exactly like every school bus since the beginning of time - if students are being jackasses, they are forced to sit up front, or, alternatively, lose their bus privileges and now have to find some other way to get to school. Banning book reading on buses is quite possibly the stupidest thing I've heard in 2015.