Bus driver calls Christian girl a "stupid biggott"

http://abcnews.go.com/US/video/bus-...&tab=9482931&section=1206833&playlist=&page=3

School says the bus driver was working within the scope of her employment when the driver calls a student a stupid little biggott because she is overheard telling another student that she couldn't vote for Pres. Obama because of his thoughts on abortion and gay marraige. After the initial incedent, she returns to the girl's home and continues to lay into her.

 

Last time I checked, bus drivers are hired to ... um, drive... not call kids names nor reshape their religious or political views. When she dropped the kids off at their homes, her job was done for the day. She had no business whatever coming back to the home and having two children get back on the bus so she could "explain what this is about" to them!

 

You know what bothers me the most about this, is that the bus driver is trying to force her own political views on a child. I have my views on politics and religion but I don't try to force them on anyone.

Why does it always seem that those who demand for everyone to be tolerant of their lifestyle are NOT tolerant of anyone elses?

 

More than that, I'm very bothered by the fact that the school doesn't see anything wrong with what the bus driver did. ESPECIALLY coming back to the home and "explaining" to her.

 

How rediculous!! Like the father, I would be IRATE! She had no business deciplining the child, or telling other children not to hang around her and BELITTLING her infront fo her peers!! And let's not talk about the fact that the bus driver took the child out of her home w/o the parents consent (If they were even home) and verbally bash her on board the empty bus!! Forcing her opinions and political views as FACT making that little girl cry, and feel terrible about her views and opinions making her feel unimportant, and obviously upset!! The bus driver should absolutally be punished, as HER job is to keep her eyes on the road, her feet on those pedals, and her mouth shut when it comes to dishing out insults. That poor girl, how terrible she must feel. Isn't it sad when a child can't voice his/her opinion w/o someone kicking the crap out of them physically or verbally?!?!?!?!

P.S. anyone remember the teacher who bashed her student in school for voting for John McCain instead of Obama? Similarities?? IMO, whats so great about the guy?! (Don't want to get in a political debate, just saying.)

 

My computer won't take to the article for some reason. It has a mind of it's own. I drove a school bus for years. If I had done what that driver done I would of been fired on the spot. The name calling alone would of cost me my job.

 

I would have called the cops on her and then slapped her with a lawsuit for tying to "brainwash" my kid. I don't mess around.

 

Wow! I wish I could say that's unbelievable, but it's not. That bus driver stepped over the line when she called the girl a name, encouraged the other kids to turn her in, told her she belonged in private school, and threatened her, but getting her BACK ON THE BUS TO BERATE HER is criminal behavior in my opinion. I agree with the person who said that the scary thing is that the school didn't think the bus driver did anything wrong.

I had a run-in with a school administrator once who wanted to suspend my teen son because he was having a conversation with a friend about illegal immigration and the FRIEND made a comment that someone overheard and found offensive. The administrator admitted that my son didn't make the comment, but since the vice-principal was of the opinion that illegal immigrants were all just poor people looking for a better life, other opinions were not welcome and considered racist. It didn't help that I was in a high risk pregnancy at the time and *very* hormonal. Looking back, I don't really regret telling him off! Oddly, a few weeks later, my son and another friend (of a different race) went to this administrator to complain that they were being harassed as being gay because they hung out together and the administrator told them to "get over it". Nothing that happens in the public schools surprises me anymore.

 

Handsome said that exact same thing!

 

What I find funny, was had the student and driver's view been reversed, she would have lost her job.

Had the student said "I will vote for Obama because of my views on abortion and gay marriage" and the bus driver would have brought her back on the bus and said "being gay is a sin, abortion is a sin" she'd lost her job on the spot!

But the fact that any bus driver or teacher can call a child a name for ANY reason and not face disciplinary action is just screwed up!

 

Sonita, I just showed the video to my 18 year old son and we said the same thing. If the bus driver told a student that abortion and gay marriage were wrong, she would have been accused of shoving her views down a student's throat, being intolerant of other views, and then immediately fired.

 

Never thought of it that way, but you're absolutely right!!!

 

The whole thing makes me feel sick. That bus driver is in the wrong line of work and the school's idea of what a bus driver should be doing is just beyond me. I am so thankful AGAIN that my girls are home with us.

 

I agree, that was absolutely wrong. I am also frustrated by the fact that I think you guys are right. If her beliefs had been Christian and she was caught lecturing children she would have been fired. If it isn't right in one case it shouldn't be right at all.

 

I want to know why the parents in the district aren't busy picketing the school and the board meeting, demanding the bus driver be fired. If the other parents are ignoring it, why would the board bother doing anything about it?

 

Bus drivers can get away with so much. When I was in high school I took the bus home from school. There were 2 buses that dropped off in the same location. 1 bus delivered kids to the north side of the street and my bus delivered kids to the south side of the street. My friend lived on the north side, I lived on the south side, but my bus got there 20 minutes before the other bus so she decided to take my bus and then cross the street. We knew she wasn't supposed to do that but we always waited until the bus left and then she would cross the street. Someone ratted us out and one day when we were getting off the bus she stopped us and told us that if we were going to cross the street she would kick us off her bus for the rest of the year. We told her that my friend was going to my house and we had no intentions of crossing the street. The funny thing is, that was the truth that day. We went to my house to drop our stuff off and then we were going to walk to the corner market for candy and stuff. It had been 20 minutes because when we got back to the bus stop the other bus was dropping kids off. We then noticed that my bus was still there. When the bus driver saw us coming she flew out of the bus like a mad woman and started screaming about how we are stupid little *&%# and how we lied to her and how she was never going to let us on her bus again because apparently we are going to cross the street and how dare we waste her time making her sit there to make sure we don't cross the street when we knew all along we were going to. There was a lot of swear words and horrible language from her. We didn't know what to say to her so we ran off to the corner market. She didn't let us on the bus for the next month.

Looking back, I wish I had said something to her, but I was just so scared at the time.

 

So much for the party of tolerance.

 

I am having a hard time with this one.
1st this happened in 2008! Why is it coming out now?
2nd the bus driver didn't say anything UNTIL students keep coming to her saying that the girl was telling them they were going to hell for believing opposite of her beliefs.
Say all you want about what you believe but DON'T tell other people they are going to hell because of what they believe.
3rd the bus driver said the biggott line to only one student not the entire bus load of kids. Was it wrong YEP, but it was not said loud enough for others to hear.
4th.. lots of creative editting going on..did the bus driver ask nicely for the girls to go back on the bus or yell at them and threaten them to do so? we don't know because it was edited strange and the girls never said , just that they got back on the bus.
IMHO the bus driver came back alone to give examples to why she thinks its important for gay couples to have rights. She went back with an empty bus, that says a lot, like she didn't want to embrass the girls in front of others because most of the bad comments you heard from the driver were made to one other student, not the entire bus load of kids. She wasn't yelling or being overly aggressive. Was it wrong YEP, she should have talked to them outside the bus. Or maybe not talked to them at all, its hard because its such a heated matter that they both feel passionate about BUT one is a bus driver and one is student and it should have been done away from their home or away from the bus..personal time for the bus driver for sure.
I have done something similar myself, lecturing a teen about something similar to this. PLEASE don't tell people adults or kids, that they are going to hell for what they believe simply because it is opposite of what you were taught. That part can be kept to yourself and it only makes you appear close minded and perhaps you would be someone I wouldn't want to have a meaningful conversation with anymore.
Was this wrong on the bus drivers parts, YEp , could it have been handled another way like.. Hey don't tell people they are going to hell..YEP. BUT IMHO the student played a part in this too and if perhaps she never said the hell part we wouldn't even be hearing about this. Or if the bus driver never went back to talk to the girls, we would never hear about this.