Are there aides on your elementary school busses?

So far on our bus one little boy has slapped a girl across the face, kicked a boy, and poked another boy in the eye. He was written up for these issues and was suspended from riding the bus for awhile.

A 4th grade boy who was protesting his innocence over something threatened to have the busdriver fired.

I feel sorry for the busdriver who seems pretty nononsense. I know aides would cost the district more $ which seems pretty unrealistic w/the emerging NYS budget cuts. However, I am concerned about safety.

Just wondering if there are aides in other areas?

Yes, we have called the bus garage and expressed our concerns. The next stop is the school superintendent.

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No aides, not even on the pre-k buses here. I'm in NY also.

Well, the teacher's aides are the bus drivers here but there's no extra adult on the bus, if that's what you're asking. I agree that it would seem to help a lot. My kids don't ride the bus because of how out-of-control kids are these days on the buses.

there are no aides on the buses here either. which is why ds doesn't ride anymore, his bus was full of disobedient children. the school won't and to a point can't do anything about it bc it is the parent's fault the kids are allowed to act the way they do.

No aides on our bus.
I think that having kids ride the bus is helpful to the parents- if a kid is written up then more more riding it. I do not like kids saying-he will get the driver fired. I believe in that the adult is right and the kid is wrong. I think we need to get back to basic in our society. JMO

No aides here; I'd do a handstand if we had them. I've always felt that there should be two adults on each school bus -- one to focus on driving and one to focus on disciplining the kids.

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We have no helpers on the bus. I keep DS off the bus as much as possible. I am already stressing that he will have to ride it home next year. We have been able to drive him this year.

Here's what gets me -- If the little girl or the little boy who were slapped and kicked retaliated, they would be in as much trouble as the boy who started the trouble. My poor, gentle DS will never fight back. He's been told by teachers this is wrong, but the same teachers do not see everything that happens on the playground, in the lunchroom, or on the bus. I have told DS he has my permission to fight back, but I know he won't. I just feel he's being victimized!

It's the rowdy kids on the bus who have the power. The good kids who try to solve problems are made to feel like tattletales, and they can't solve the problem themselves . . . .

In our area, if a kid is kicked off a bus, another bus has to be sent to his house to get him/her because it is the law that the school provide transportation. In our area, the bus garage is reticent to kick a kid off because it becomes a budget issue for them . . . .

Really, something has to change!!!!!!!!!!!

Marlene

PS -- Did you catch that you hit one of my pet peeves? :O

The buses my kids ride on...do not have aides. But I know in our district, if the bus driver requests an aide for excessive noise, disrespectful behavior, violence etc - they will place one on the bus.

Around here the mantra is "Riding the bus is a privilege, NOT a right".

the only bus that has an aid is ds's prek bus that takes him over to the preschool. miss bonnie rides with bob the bus driver. the funny thing is the only ones on that bus are 4 year olds. our district does not allow the little kids to ride with the older kids.

that said we don't have issues on our school busses for one its a small community and everybody knows everybody and if you were miss behaving your parents would here about it.

just like oregano said here it is also "riding the bus is a pirvaledge not a right"

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Nope no aides here. But so far we have been lucky as far as my kids go and riding the bus. But we are one of the first stops on the way home. The bus driver will STOP the bus and sit in front of my house for a good 5 minutes, untill ALL the kids are sitting properly and behaiving. LOL

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