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JerseyDevil
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 Posted - 11/26/2011 : 05:44:39 AM
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| My school has a lot of inner-city kids from New York, Philadelphia, and Washington. As such, there are a lot of fights on the bus. The bus drivers don't do anything about it. What's your take on all this? |
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twinkiebusdriver
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Posted - 12/23/2011 : 10:33:05 AM
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| Don't do anything or aren't allowed to do anything about the problem? What is the protocol when it comes to dealing with discipline issues? Does it have to go through administrators in order to get unruly kids off the bus? That may influence what is "done" on the bus. |
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JK
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USA
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Posted - 12/30/2011 : 08:10:11 AM
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The claims are simple enough:
If you respect the riders, they will respect you.
If you take an interest in the riders, they will be more cooperative.
You have to be consistent.
Works well with civil children, especially when the parents involved are well informed, and when school support can be trusted to back up your efforts. Is this the case at your facility?
When not the case and you have as little as a few hostile riders on board, and a few hostile parents complaining about your efforts, and a political, lackadaisical, or otherwise indifferent school support:
If you respect the riders the hostile will escalate noise on the bus, disobey the bus driver’s directions, disrupt the bus, bully each other, act out sexual offenses, and generally attack your character if you attempt to intervene.
If you try to be consistent in your workplace on the bus, then hostile children, hostile parents and ineffective support will subvert your efforts every step of the way, eventually blaming the bus driver for the problems on the bus.
If you take an interest in the riders, then expect the hostile to accuse you of being a pervert, a danger around children, and demand your removal.
When the workplace is hostile, to actually care, to then persist in trying to do what you are supposed to be doing is often a guarantee of increased stress on the job, sleepless nights, eventual change of route, and eventual burnout, or terminated.
Plenty of schools and plenty of bus drivers claim their school buses are safe places, and that they get great support, and that they are in charge of their buses. Would appear then there is an abundance to explore, and a great incentive to find one of those employers that makes these claims and go to work at that facility.
Your caring nature with the right employer can be manifested without all the sabotage the chronic dysfunctional workplace promotes.
The healthiest out there, in my opinion, do little to nothing to change an employer's misery that the employer themselves created and promote.
The healthiest immediately look for another employer. These simply have nothing to offer the hostile workplace. They leave misery behind to the miserable, moving on to a healthier workplace environment. (jk)
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Edited by - JK on 12/30/2011 08:50:13 AM |
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02raptor
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Posted - 01/27/2012 : 07:35:11 AM
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| In the case of A fight on the School Bus we have the driver stop the bus and contact the office VIA two way radio. At that time I call the Cop's and head to the scene myself. Cops get there and take them into custody. After they are citied for disorderly conduct their parents pick them up. |
9 school buses.3 service vehicles.4 Tractors and Me. |
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Fights On The Bus
