Aussie Bus Driver Fed Up with 'Misbehavior' Dumps 18 Kids on Side of the Road

Good job using an American school bus on the wrong side of the road for the thumbnail.

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https://imgur.com/a/6txD0Qu

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- Thanks, now it makes sense.
  
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I just assumed this was somewhere in America due to the thumbnail. I guess I could read the article before jumping to conclusions though.

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If the kids had been older, I wouldn’t have much of a problem with this.

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Yeah, I feel like people commenting didn’t read the article, there kids as young as 5 years old just… left by the side of the road.

If you imagine this being done to high schoolers, it’d be easier to condone (although even then the fact that he ditched everyone on the entire bus is a bit insane). But just, leaving a 5-year old by the side of the road?

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- Even if it's 17 year olds, the amount of liability you expose the school/municipality to is massive.
  
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- kids as young as 5 years old just… left by the side of the road
  
  I'm a school bus driver in the US and here you're not even allowed to unload kids that young at their actual stop unless there's an adult there waiting to take them. Doing this shit here would get you fired for sure and possibly arrested.
  
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Imagine you, as an adult, are riding a bus and a handful of crazy people are acting like assholes so the driver makes all of you get off the bus, potential miles from where you live. I don’t think this would be ok even with older people. Plus there’s the fact that we don’t even know how bad the misbehavior was. Unless every single one were causing a significant danger, there’s no reason to kick them off.

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- Pay for the ticket, ride the ride.
  
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If you can't handle 5-10 year olds, then maybe don't have a job driving them to and from school?

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lol, I'm sure there are dozens of willing applicants

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This comments section makes me sick. Kids are fucking kids. They don't "behave"— they're just trying to enjoy life, they're just reacting how they know, and they're still learning. You don't dump five-year-olds on the side of the road where they almost get hit by cars (that was part of the news article).

This also sounds like a great way to go to prison with a lot of parents extremely angry at you.

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they’re just trying to enjoy life

Maybe. A neighborhood bully went after me with a makeshift whip around that age. I lost my boot in the snow trying to run away fast enough. Most people are fine as you say. Some...are just broken.

You don’t dump five-year-olds on the side of the road

Strongly agree here. I don't care what they were doing; they're still kids in need of adult supervision.

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- Yeah- I've been on busses where the driver got fed up but they just took us back to the school
  
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100% don't do this. It's wrong.

Separate conversation: folks we rely on don't have the support or tools to do their jobs safely and sanely. Kids are violent and beyond "unruly".

I'm not suggesting I have an answer, I'm not suggesting dumping them was appropriate. I'm not suggesting "things were better in the good old days".

I am suggesting something has evolved in society, (many suggest norms degraded with COVID isolation, maybe. Discuss.) to make these provider's jobs harder, and many are so close to snapping we as society should recognize it, and help them.

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While not at the side of the road, where I'm from bus drivers have the right to throw anyone out at a bus station because there aren't school buses per se. Although this is reserved for particularly rowdy individuals, I can't imagine any bus driver emptying the entire bus. Definitely shitty & possibly dangerous thing to do.

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Nah, fuck them kids.

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If the little bastards can’t behave, they can walk

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- You have a fundamental lack of understanding of child development. This is why we were abused as kids.
  
  For so many goddamned reasons— especially if you don't know anything about the kids— the word "behave" in this usage should not be allowed in adult usage. All it does is perpetuate harmful and false beliefs about children.
  
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- A fucking 5 year old? What the fuck is wrong with you?
  
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kids are much much more dangerous than adults.

kids just love to kill

kittens, puppies, just something to smack and smash flr a normal kid

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- What the hell was your experience with children? Or are you a psychopath, and you're just projecting it?
  
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I can’t imagine being a bus driver. 15 years ago when I was riding the bus regularly we were shits, but we knew where the limit was. Kids now don’t seem to know where to stop.

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I'm a school bus driver. I tried to enforce the mask-wearing rules towards the end of COVID and some of the kids literally threatened to kill me with a plastic bag over my head or with guns they said they would get from their dads. Nothing was done despite this all being video recorded. A few months later the same kids threw goldfish (the crackers, not the actual fish) at me and got banned from the bus for a week. Go figure.

My only real problem was with their choice of snack food. If they'd thrown white chocolate Kit-Kats at me I would have just picked them up and said nothing about it.

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- You illustrate my point perfectly.
  
  Y’all are saints for putting up with those little shitheads. It really sucks that the schools won’t do anything about threats of violence either, and that’s something I’ve heard from teachers too.
  
  Covid really fucked this generation up. I was lucky enough to be well into college by the time it hit. With these kids their formative years were entirely online
  
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- You illustrate my point perfectly.
  
  Y’all are saints for putting up with those little shitheads. It really sucks that the schools won’t do anything about threats of violence either, and that’s something I’ve heard from teachers too.
  
  Covid really fucked this generation up. I was lucky enough to be well into college by the time it hit. With these kids their formative years were entirely online
  
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My dad is one currently. He actually likes it. Although he has had COVID three times because of it.

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- It's a pretty sweet job honestly. Pay is good and it includes health insurance and a small pension, and you get the middle of the day to yourself. All you have to do is drive a big yellow Tonka truck around and put up with the occasional obnoxious middle-schooler.
  
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“And I’ll fucking do it again” - Bus Driver

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Do gen-x era bus drivers now live in Australia, that is a Gen X move right there! Misbehave and you walk.

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I could see gen-z do it too. They give no fucks, since the world is ending anyway and none of us are rich enough to buy our way into politics and do something about it.

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That was a form of detention for us. They'd keep us until the buses had left, then let us go. We had the choice of walking home or phoning our parents. I did a lot of walking in the '70s.

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- My bus driver left if you didn't make it on time. I say bus, but they were really just vans (Opel/Vauxhall Vivaro I believe) fitted to carry people, because it was a small school and we were all spread out on the countryside. We didn't even call it a bus, it was "school taxi."
  
  My mother didn't have a car or driver's license, and no buses went anywhere near where we lived. There were a few occasions where I did miss the bus, so I had to walk home. Looking at Google Maps it says it's only about a two hour walk. I recall it happening in the winter though, lots of snow, and me being fairly young (around 9 I think) I didn't get home until half past nine in the evening haha.
  
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Has anyone made a genx community anywhere yet?

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- I'll make one as soon as I quit slacking off.
  
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- Let me know!
  
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This is like if cops couldn't handle misbehaved individuals, ... - oh

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Wrong but relatable.

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Good on them.

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Why become or stay as a school bus driver if you can't handle children? I don't give a shit about the argument about the economy or whatever excuse someone will make for them. Throwing children at the side of the road and placing them in danger is far worse; I hope this bus driver gets jail time and barred from being near children.

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Only in Australia.

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relateable

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Hopefully this title is incorrect and should include the word “former”.

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If you had read the article, you'd have known that they're "no longer employed".

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- Read the article? Context?! That's for nerds!
  
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They will be fine. My bus driver did this often cause we were complete fuckheads.

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If they’re gonna fuck around, best they learn about the find out part now before they become adults

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If they were 15-18 year olds.. then ok

Some were young as 5

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- I can’t imagine the 5 year olds were a problem, I instantly assumed shitty teenagers who need straightened out. Kicking out small children is too much
  
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- Precisely because they're 5 it's important they learn early. Otherwise they'll become... well, Australians. I hear they are one of the big sex slaves of the US, politics-wise.
  
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meh. modern kids have phones. they weren't outside cell coverage. probably deserved it

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My stupid fucking brain read "Aussie" and immediately concluded that this must've happened in the ass crack middle of nowhere.

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- For what it's worth, it was the very outer suburban/rural edge of the city. The centre of Brisbane is 50min drive.
  
  So probably not as post-apocalyptic wasteland as you imagined, just very low density housing and a lot of grasslands. Culturally barren, perhaps.
  
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- Back in my day I had to walk through the outback barefoot with nothing but an apron.
  
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