School Bus Monitor Verbally Abused on Bus: Should Students Be Disciplined?

Their is a difference with an inoffensive tease and Bullying. Anyone caught bullying should be reprimanded severely and the household where they reside should be investigated to see where the bullying started and to make sure it ends right away.

I find it disturbing and from what i've read the school has dealt with the issue in a responsible way. I'm not not trying to blame the victim; however, there must have been some signs of problem behavior before this incident. You would think that there would have been a better choice for bus monitor. I'm 59 and i wouldn't have taken that crap from a bunch of middle school kids.

Our school district would have ejected the kids within a mile of home, called the parents and let them know the kids r on foot and won't be riding the bus for a specified period.

My youngest was creating problems...nothing like this and the school andhas we dealt with it a few times. However, he couldn't get his act together. So they come to the ultimatum of chill out or find another way to school. I asked him if he wanted to do 2nd grade again next year cause if he got thrown off the bus I wasn't driving him in...we lived in the country...needless to say that caught his attention. No further problems

Yes. There are consequences for our actions and those kids were wrong to do what they did. Shame on all of them.

Kids should absolutely be held responsible for their actions, good or bad!

These kids need an old fashioned..........

Many bullies of today become tomorrow's criminals. Could only stomach 30 seconds. Technically obesism, potential hate-crime.

There's a difference between kids being kids and becoming undisciplined thugs.

I was bullied when I was in elementary and jr. high. The bullying stopped when I finally starting fighting back. And my peers didn't help cause squealing would have got them in trouble with the bullies too. Today's cameras sure help cause then it's not deniable when they're recorded "red-handed"!!!

I was bullied, so I think bullies do deserve anything that is coming to them. Why bully and not except the consequenses that come with bullying. Those children need to learn how to respect adults!

Government and schools have no idea how to handle bullying. They punish kids who stand up and fight back! Bullies and the bullied have the same problem. Low self esteem! A bully - has usually been bullied or worse at home. Schools have to STOP bullying kids who fight back against a bully. Whats worse for bullied kids, a broken nose, or eventually hanging themselves in a closet at home. Bullying is a fact of life and if a kid does not learn how to handle it themselves they will be bullied all their lives.

It's also too common for the Victim & Victimizer to switch places unexpectedly,
mainly from cumulative PTSD reactions & blowouts.
Try enduring this with Asperger's (been there…).

I hope things have taken a turn for the better for you. I got so pissed at the system I started doing something about it and had nothing but grief from the establishment. I used to be an unarmed combat instructor in the SF and have tailored a course for kids to protect themselves. I teach them how to win without fighting and to stand their ground - then of course they learn how to do it physically. Kids love it and in many cases have worked for them.

I've been emerging (out of a cocoon of anxiety & depression) for just over two years now. The following sites may help you 'work' the System at its own game:
http://lornemitchell.com/blog...
http://blog.humangivens.com/2...

Thanks - keep up the good fight - only "you" can do it. most people cannot understand the problem if they never experienced it!

"Be the Change" - Mohandas Ghandi

Me too...puts a whole new spin on things.

Most people have been bullied by someone and to be honest most people have bullied someone else. I use to think that wasnt true because i was pretty far down the food chain. However there were people below me and my actions weren't always appropriate. Doesnt make it right. Also, often kids will do things as a group that they would never do as individuals. Long story short...it never should have happened.

I was bullied practically my entire elementary life, but I fought back, and as a result I was the one who was always getting in trouble. I say that people should be allowed to reciprocate, whether the bullied student fights back, or a bus monitor smacking the bully across the face with the back of their hand. We have grown too soft and this is the result.

Some of the bullies are good at 'rocking the boat' and can time it so that you 'blow' when an adult shows up. I only lashed out once with a pencil, almost took out an eye, the 'strap' was abolished here only months prior.

Definitely - this bullying needs to be stopped NOW!

also the parent should get a hefty fine!

they should be punished - HUMILIATED PUBLICLY

as rude as they were - and they were very rude, Karen Klein still didn't do her job...as a bus monitor - and therefor she should not be fully entitled to receiving all the benefits warranted onto her from her "cause".

I have been bullied, others I know have been bullied - and yes, while it sucks...we never got as much attention or as much money for being yelled, punched, kicked or screamed at.

She does not deserve all the cash she is claimed to be recieving.

Behavior is shaped by either positive or negative reinforcement.

Likely from incompetent &/or negligent parenting too.

It depends on what it was that they did, and how you intend to punish them. The punishment must be fitting the crime so to speak

Hey look. A bully is a bully!

I have this horrible notion that somehow we have had a massive-negative-genetic-
mutation in our offspring. Am I the only person feeling this way?

Definitely. If you don't stop them young, they'll do it all their lives or until they get shot.

Put them in a stockade for a week and let people see what punks they really are.

Great One - a thousand words!!!!

That is what happens when Kids are groeing up not being taught to respect their elders. Had that been my child they would have first been spanked, then made to apologize to the woman and have THAT posted on whatever video site the other little kid posted the video to. Not done yet he would have had to do chores for that lady for about a month or two, no phone other than for emercencies, no computer, no video games and on TV only what I say he could watch... actually I take that back. No TV read a book. Some may say I am too strict that they are just kids.I think that answer is a cop out for lazy parenting.

The fact that you even have to ask this question is disturbing to me. That's what wrong with kids these days - they don't get punished and shown that actions have consequences - then they go out and kill 14 people and everyone wants to know what happened. Discipline when done correctly is a showing of love. Discipline now or the state will do it for you later in life - you choose.

I would whoop the sh*t outta them for doing this...not to mention grounding them for the semester and working them from sun up to sun down when they weren't in school. But nothing of this sort will happen to them because most parents these days are spineless and deluded.

To much liberal, PC in parenting. Can't touch them, talk them through things make them go to church sunday school for a year might help!!!!! Let them learn something or go to counseling camp........

If the parents can't take proper care, put them in reform school but still bill the parents for being inept, why should others pay for their neglect?

I never said that others should pay for them did I?

Did not know it was assumed, (as our no-fault system often does) so I filled the gap.

Parents should be responsible for their children but if they are abusive well that is another issue all together.

Sounds like we agree that it's a tough call & it looks like we're turning into "Lord of the Flies". It's almost certain that the parents had it rough and are 'handing it down' (same with pedophilia) to the nest generation, just have to muster up the will to put a stop to it. I did by not having children.