While the bus was driving the elementary route, the driver fell out of her seat at a sharp turn, and struck her head. The bus veered to the side and began hitting parked cars.

Shouldn't the school board be a much more concerned with this little tidbit of info?

Just how sharp of a turn can a school bus even take to propel the driver out of her seat?? And shouldn't the driver have been wearing a seat belt?

thamike: While the bus was driving the elementary route, the driver fell out of her seat at a sharp turn, and struck her head. The bus veered to the side and began hitting parked cars.

Shouldn't the school board be a much more concerned with this little tidbit of info?

Screw you and your 'thinking'.

She should also be drug tested, probed and they should take a hard look at what she was wearing at the time.

After all, she may have had on clothing the district deems inappropriate.

How dare she spring to action and drive that bus.

Was she certified?
Has she passed any kind of 'apply the brake' certification?
What about her tax returns, we'd best look into that.
I say put her on a 'no fly' list also, she obviously is a threat should she be on a commercial airliner.

In my mind, they haven't done enough.

Since she never actually went to school because she was sick, I would think that a parent calling and saying "My kid went back home because she was sick" would take care of it. I have students who don't come to school until after their parents leave for work. I can envision a scenario where her mom just hadn't had a chance to call in and excuse her yet.

/The staying on the bus thing is a little weird though.
//I'm pretty sure the driver probably shouldn't have done that.
///Eh, she'll get fired soon enough under zero-tolerance policies for employees.

How about punishing the dumbass driver for not wearing her seatbelt?

They should give her detention. They should also give her a formal ceremony congratulating her on her heroism while she's there.

Zero-tolerance FTW

it sounds reasonable to stay on the bus. she got herself a ride back home. maybe she was sick; maybe not. who cares really, in such a situation? heads should roll over this...

thamike: While the bus was driving the elementary route, the driver fell out of her seat at a sharp turn, and struck her head. The bus veered to the side and began hitting parked cars.

Shouldn't the school board be a much more concerned with this little tidbit of info?

Is there something leading you to believe that they arent on that too?

Simpsons did it.


ChowDARE?
ChowDARE?
It's chowda!
Say it, Frenchy!

It is time I think for this nation to purge every public school administrator and start over again.

Hooray for not getting the whole story! Or worse, writing the "article" with such an obvious slant that farkers here will just flock in like the sheep and go "YEAH! FARK THE SCHOOL!!!"

Look, it's a tricky situation, but the bottom line is she did skip, she decided that she just "felt like" staying on the bus because she didn't feel good.
We'd be singing a different tune if she tried to take control of the wheel and plunged the entire bus off a cliff.
We'd be up in arms that she wasn't in school and why wasn't the school notified she didn't get off the bus and why didn't they take action toward this truancy.

You decide not to go to work, tell your boss you feel sick, then thwart a robbery at the Best Buy you've skipped off to during work hours.
Guess what? Boss will still have your balls for lying and skipping work.

Give her a medal and detention. She'll learn that she didn't do wrong in her actions of "saving" the bus from those evil parked cars and no foot on the accelerator from the incapacitated bus driver (meaning the bus was stopping ANYWAY), but she did wrong by skipping school.

You may now return to your regularly scheduled Fark.com "SKOOL IS TEH EVIL!!!11" discussion

/also, is it me or is blocking enabled now for all users, liters included?
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thamike: While the bus was driving the elementary route, the driver fell out of her seat at a sharp turn, and struck her head. The bus veered to the side and began hitting parked cars.

Shouldn't the school board be a much more concerned with this little tidbit of info?

that would be rational

cmb53208: It is time I think for this nation to purge every public school administrator and start over again.

Wouldn't that cause some sort of zero tolerance meltdown? The Irony would be so thick you could cut it with a knife.

AHHH Mindless school administrators. Gotta love it.

mr_bunny: thamike: While the bus was driving the elementary route, the driver fell out of her seat at a sharp turn, and struck her head. The bus veered to the side and began hitting parked cars.

Shouldn't the school board be a much more concerned with this little tidbit of info?

Screw you and your 'thinking'.

She should also be drug tested, probed and they should take a hard look at what she was wearing at the time.

After all, she may have had on clothing the district deems inappropriate.

How dare she spring to action and drive that bus.

Was she certified?
Has she passed any kind of 'apply the brake' certification?
What about her tax returns, we'd best look into that.
I say put her on a 'no fly' list also, she obviously is a threat should she be on a commercial airliner.

In my mind, they haven't done enough.

Wait! You forgot to add that she might be one of those teen girls out of four who has the STDs and insists on spelling everything out in textspeak!!! :D

/idk, my bff jill?
//biatchSLAP!
///Who has that pic?

FTFA: by doing this, she didn't follow proper procedure

oh, noes!

Our proud, competent government educators at work. Salud!

Blind man could see it, this is Bush's fault...

I know that high moral outrage is chic here on Fark, but it might be useful to obtain a second source of this story before calling for the principal's head.

/who am I kidding...

So what exactly is the image behind the word "Asinine"? An ass crack?

I'm still waiting for the day when...

Administration: "It's good you wrestled the gun away from the shooter and saved the lives of your classmates. However, we have a zero-tolerance policy for fighting and gun possession on school grounds and are therefore expelling you; criminal charges will be brought against you as well."

I'll probably die of asphyxiation on that day, being unable to stop laughing...

Say it right!

Pocket Ninja: Just how sharp of a turn can a school bus even take to propel the driver out of her seat?? And shouldn't the driver have been wearing a seat belt?

Bus drivers (and passengers) rarely wear seatbelts. With a vehicle as large as a bus, you can pretty much figure you're going to win in almost any crash. In the cases where you wouldn't, like the bus flying off a cliff or rolling over, you're pretty much screwed whether you've got a belt or not.

I can't imagine how bad a driver you'd need to be to turn a bus so hard that you threw yourself out of your seat.

This is bullshiat, they should let her graduate early for being a hero.

This is why John Gatto is against school.

OK Farkers. Give this one a FOLLOWUP tag. The principal's email is at the bottom of the article.

/Let your views be heard!

Smiths: You decide not to go to work, tell your boss you feel sick, then thwart a robbery at the Best Buy you've skipped off to during work hours.
Guess what? Boss will still have your balls for lying and skipping work. Give her a medal and detention. She'll learn that she didn't do wrong in her actions of "saving" the bus from those evil parked cars and no foot on the accelerator from the incapacitated bus driver (meaning the bus was stopping ANYWAY), but she did wrong by skipping school.

This. Smiths we will have none of your common sense and practical thinking here on Fark.

Although instead of thwarting a robbery at Besy Buy, I think it would be funnier if you saved some old guys life at the ball park. Old guy has a heart attack, you do CPR, save his life, make the evening news...oops.

What I wrote to the principal:

Amanda Rouse doesn't deserve detention for saving people's lives. If she hadn't been there, those children on the bus could have been seriously injured, or worse, killed. What you're doing is wrong. Sure, she didn't follow the correct "protocols", but does that really matter when people's lives were at stake? I don't see how punishing a hero will do any good in the long run, other than for you to act all high and mighty and abuse your powers instead of honoring a good deed. Shame on you and shame on the people that hired you for putting in charge someone so full of themselves and their policies that they see past this act of heroism.

Detention? OoooOOOoooo....that'll fix her evil ways. The school dean needs to be handed the dumbass tag for even trying to "nail" her on a technicality.

But what should come as no surprise is the email death threats they'll get, and someone else offering to pay her college tuition.

mikaloyd: Is there something leading you to believe that they arent on that too?

Well, the lack of that being mentioned, for one...

How fast was that bus going for the driver to fall out at the sharp turn? They had to been on two wheels for that.

Anyway, the girl is rightly punished. It doesn't matter if saving someone's life can make you late for class, you should be punished for being late. School rule is absolute law and nothing should break it.

OK, sarcasm gone: Fark the school administrators and their idiotic zero tolerance bullshiat. This girl stopped a disaster from occurring, and you punish her for it? Of all the fark up stuff to do.

The funny thing is that the driver will get fired not for not wearing a seat-belt, but by letting the girl stay on the bus to drop her off. School rules > common sense

/What is the benefit of helping others again?

Wow, that truly is asinine. From what i can tell, she never even got off the bus, so they expected her to get off the bus, get in school, sign out, and then find her way home?

KerwoodDerby: I know that high moral outrage is chic here on Fark, but it might be useful to obtain a second source of this story before calling for the principal's head.

I followed my own advice and found this, which sums it up pretty well. Sure looks like the principal needs to grow a pair. Fire at will.

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Juniper Jupiter: ///Who has that pic?

/offtopic

mr_bunny: thamike: While the bus was driving the elementary route, the driver fell out of her seat at a sharp turn, and struck her head. The bus veered to the side and began hitting parked cars.

Shouldn't the school board be a much more concerned with this little tidbit of info?

Screw you and your 'thinking'.

She should also be drug tested, probed and they should take a hard look at what she was wearing at the time.

After all, she may have had on clothing the district deems inappropriate.

How dare she spring to action and drive that bus.

Was she certified?
Has she passed any kind of 'apply the brake' certification?
What about her tax returns, we'd best look into that.
I say put her on a 'no fly' list also, she obviously is a threat should she be on a commercial airliner.

In my mind, they haven't done enough.

This kid has to learn not to meddle. Better to learn early in life. Maybe it was god's will, and she interfered with god's MASTER PLAN.

It is time I think for this nation to purge every public school administrator and start over again.

Damn right. I don't think i've met one public school administrator who wasn't a drone with control freak issues.

"NERRRMMMM DOES NOT COMPUTE! MUST OBEY ALL RULES! NEEERRMMM CHECK THE HANDBOOK!"

Thats like the bullshiat "zero-tolerance" policies involving fighting in schools.

If someone knocks you down from behind and begins kicking you on the ground, you are just as much as fault as the person who initiated the fight.

"But I just put my hands up to defend myself." Doesn't matter. You're involved = you're guilty.

from the other article

"She is in trouble with school because she made the wrong decision," Correll said. "But I can't help but believe that she was where God wanted her to be."


Wow, now that is a person who will follow any authority and believe anything told to her.

From KerwoodDerby's alternate news link:

Her grandmother, Sally Correll, said she was proud Rouse took quick and decisive action - but knows she made the wrong choice because she didn't call in sick to school.

"She is in trouble with school because she made the wrong decision," Correll said. "But I can't help but believe that she was where God wanted her to be."

HERO tag to grandma. She's going to instill with this child "you made the wrong choice, but had the right action in a different situation. It's great you were there, but your being there was because of doing the wrong thing. Welcome to irony."

But go ahead and flame the principal via his e-mail on the page, I'm sure when the 17-year-old crowd hits this thread (they're my 'tan' Farky color) it'll be even more logical.

If I was sick, I didn't go to school. If I was sick on the way to school, I go home.
If that bothers the school, fark 'em with a barbed cactus.

Why has school become such a lame ass experience today? Probably a reflection of the way all our government systems have become.

We need to change that "Life, liberty, and the persuit of happiness" thing to just "life" in prison if you don't follow all the gaddam rules.

Christian Bale: from the other article

"She is in trouble with school because she made the wrong decision," Correll said. "But I can't help but believe that she was where God wanted her to be."


Wow, now that is a person who will follow any authority and believe anything told to her.

Isn't everyone where god wants them to be? Or can't god get what he wants?

FTFA: "She is in trouble with school because she made the wrong decision," Correll said. "But I can't help but believe that she was where God wanted her to be."

Well what farking way do you want it Gramma? You say she made a poor choice, yet God told her to be there to make a poor choice? Which is it? I say kudos to the kid and the hell with the rest.

HA HA!! That's the one! Thanx, sunami!

Yeah, I know, I get carried away sometimes...

Chow Mein Street Actually the bus driver is required to wear a seatblet for just this reason. Most school buses do not have belts for the kids. Newer one's do and actually have shoulder belts. But the Driver should have had hers on. She created the incident.

Rodeodoc & Smiths: Actually something like that happened not long ago. I don't remember the situation but the guy got fired for helping out. The business lost customers over it and the guy got a better job from someone else.

Zero tolerance, black and white, no thought stupidity for the win. You know where all of that crap comes from don't you?

You don't want teachers to become all wishy-washy and consider the situation on its merits, that leads to all sorts of gray areas and crap like that. Mandatory sentences for students for violate the code.

They aren't punishing her for saving the kids. They're punishing her for ditching school. Anyone with half a brain can distinguish the difference.

If you think the school should ignore her ditching because she saved the kids, fine, I understand. But don't call an apple an orange.

Smiths:

But go ahead and flame the principal via his e-mail on the page, I'm sure when the 17-year-old crowd hits this thread (they're my 'tan' Farky color) it'll be even more logical.

As if a "tan" farky color if of any importance to anyone beyond yourself, but thanks for the info, chief.

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Juniper Jupiter: ///Who has that pic?

/offtopic

I have always liked that picture. It shows how superior the adult is to the child by virtue of the adult striking the child across the face with the back of the hand. That'll teach the child how to behave!

/I came in here to support the growing calls for us to don our floppy hats and grab our pitchforks and burning torches. Damn the administrators.