There are many thoughts behind the reason for bus rules. Some are for cleanliness, some are for safety, but there is one thing that is well known. If you do not enforce them, they do not happen.
Now it is the job of any child to test their limits, and it is the responsibility of adults to set the limits and enforce them. There is an old Chinese proverb that says “A word to the wise is sufficient”. So I’ll not mettle and go on leaving it at that.
As I was talking to a new driver who was in training as he chatted he mentioned that a friends neice when she found out that he was becoming a school bus driver, proceeded to give him her rules of what would make a good school bus driver.
He then stated the two he could remember. After he had mentioned them I asked him to get the list from her of exactly what rules were and so he did.
She realy liked the idea and sat right down and wrote them out for our understanding. So I thought it would be good for School Bus Drivers around the country to know what a 11 year old thought should be the ‘Rules For A Good School Bus Driver’. Remember this is in the USA.
Brookes’ Rules;
1.Don’t give assigned seats.
2.Let them have snacks that are not messy.
3.Let them bring electronics.
4.Be fair.
5.Get a bus safety person(?), about 5 to 3 people.
6.KEEP THEM SAFE!
By Brooke K., 11 years old, Sixth grade, Peculiar-Raymore School District, MO
I am sure there are others, if a survey would be taken, of additiional rules to be added from any students that ride school buses but I will let this do for a start and you can leave any comments you might have below.
Drive Safe, Brother Beno
P.S. What rules would a safety person enforce?
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At School Bus Driver Video Blog we have only the best we can put our hands on and that is the case here. Randi Mueller at Independence, MO gives us this story.
The Story:
School Bus Stop
I noticed that one of the middle schools and student coming toward my bus struggling with a load of books and keeping his pants up. Sure enough, he approached the stairs of my bus and proceeded to climb the stairs. Gravity was taking over and sure enough, when he let go of his pants to grab the handrail for the stairs gravity took over and his pants drop some. He did catch them before any pride was lost and kept climbing.
As I approached his stop. The first one on the route sheet, with fully loaded books he made his way down the aisle. When he was next to me. I offered to assist him while he carefully climbed down the stairs. But as you all know, when dealing with middle-age school kids you were talking a foreign-language.He managed pretty well the first to stairs, but the third one was due. He cut himself before hitting the pavement and managed to maintain a hold on his riches, but the books went sprawling.
By this time, the whole bus was in motion with hooves and howling as I tried to calm them all down. So we could move on, he had pulled himself together, and strolled across the front of the bus to make matters worse, as he moved smack dab in front. He lost hold of his pants and down they went in full view of all the kids. But the most unfortunate for everyone. He had no underwear. It took some time for us all to recover and continue on.
Drive Safe, Brother Beno
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What can everyday people do to change their lives?
Take a big idea, get others to help, and you have changed people lives for a moment in history.
Torch
Jodie Auckland did by coordinating a postcard campaign at Huntsville Public School requesting the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Torch Relay come to her town.
Not only will it but the torch will ride in a yellow school bus carried by torchbearer Jodie Auckland.
For more on this story go to this site on the Olympic Tourch progress: http://www.aroundtherings.com/articles/view.aspx?id=33982
And being a School Bus Driver I would like to know who the Driver will be. A real School Bus Driver?
Drive Safe, Brother Beno
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- Robert Hall
Robert Hall is a driver I met on a field trip and on his way back from going to the restroom past my bus, I waved him down and had him come join the conversation between me and another driver. In the process, we started discussing various things and found out that he was a country School Bus Driver, whereas I was a suburban driver and the other driver that was in the conversation was a city driver. So we of course discussed the differences in techniques needed to drive in the various locations. I unfortunately did not have my camera out at that time, but I did manage after he told a few stories of some of the things that he saw out in the country. I did grab my camera, set it up, and then got his permission to record him telling the story. And this is it.
Drive safe, Brother Beno (and do bookmark us below it will help others to find us)
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Story one
Parked behind another bus at our high school ready for PM routes.
School Bus Line at School
The students were boarding the bus when several boys went to the back of bus in front of me and all at once one of the older boys stood in front of the emergency door turned and dropped his pants mooning me. I called the other bus on the radio telling him that he needed to check out what was going on in in the back of the bus. They called me back asking me to describe the boy. I didn’t think he wanted me to describe the face I was looking at over the radio.
Story two.
I was taking my middle school kids to school one morning when I came to a Y in the road and instead of going right to school, I turned left to my house.
The kids were so quiet that morning, I forgot they were even on the bus.
Students on School Bus Sitting Quietly
I pulled up to where I usualy parked my bus every day after the routes then looked in my rearview mirror.
There were fifty-five pairs of eyes looking at me. I then heard one voice call out “Where are we going?”. The only answer that I could think of was,”I guess I am taking you home for breakfast.” Laughing at myself I then took them to school.
For weeks after that, whenever I approached the Y in the road I would hear “What’s for breakfast?”
Drive Safe, Brother Beno
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When School Bus Driver Video Blog put out the call for stories to go on the blog it turns out that a lot of people don’t want to be videoed telling their stories. But prefer to have them told nonetheless. They then gave them to me written out so that I could then read them myself. Now, I’m not a pushy type to get people to show up on camera, so I decided that I would go ahead and read the stories on camera for them.
This particular collection of stories that I have here were given to me without any names on them. And rather than track them down to find out who gave me the story. I decided to just put them as a category all their own. As you notice I titled it ‘Unknown Driver Stories 1′, because I figure there will be more. This allows people to not give names places or details, but I can at least tell the stories for your entertainment. And if your looking for other kinds of stories you can go here http://www.FairyTaleStoriesBlog.com . Hope you enjoy, and more to come.
Drive safe, Brother Beno (and do bookmark us below it will help others to find us)
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Robert is a fellow driver of mine in the Independence School District. His route at the present consists of picking up homeless children at various shelters and taking them to the schools they are enrolled in before they became homeless until their families can get settled again. And then if they need to they may attend a different school. This allows the children to still have some form of normal life and school life despite the turmoil that is happened. With his route there is a lot of temporary students that he picks up at established shelters, both in and out of the school district. He has to go pick them up no matter what how far out thus leading him to some long days. In that process he had a family member that became homeless. And this is the story that is related because of that.
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