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In reply to the discussion: Students bully school bus monitor, post video on YouTube [View all]Lionessa
(3,894 posts)214. Hence the bus company's fault for misplacing, lack of training, perhaps more, and why the OUTRAGE
should be directed at the bus company, imo.
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One must wonder what kind of fathers or other authority figures these guys would grow up to be......
AverageJoe90
Jun 2012
#34
these kids filmed themselves too, in another video on another day of this crap
KurtNYC
Jun 2012
#159
My daughter would have been washing that woman's windows, taking out her garbage, & mowing her lawn
Luminous Animal
Jun 2012
#229
Wow. I wouldn't blame that woman if she had a small nostalgic yearning for the days of
MADem
Jun 2012
#3
I've worked with a lot of unruly kids in 33 years, but this shocked me.
proud2BlibKansan
Jun 2012
#4
You know, if the whole "anti-bullying" thing is going to have any traction, these little shits need
MADem
Jun 2012
#6
This was an adult, imagine how bad they are to other kids who don't fit in
bluestateguy
Jun 2012
#15
$347,425 now... I hope she gets a million and the kids get expelled. As someone else said,
freshwest
Jun 2012
#221
i don't know if she knew they were filming her, but if she'd done what you suggest, it would
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#171
she isn't the one who started the fund-raiser. it was a guy in toronto. she doesn't want to press
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#170
i don't think i posted that more than once. in fact, i know i didn't, not in this thread.
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#236
Don't you think before f'ing hitting someone she should at least open her mouth and say something?
Lionessa
Jun 2012
#12
Not "back peddlin'" in the slightest. Learn to read before you embarrass yourself further. nt
MADem
Jun 2012
#27
I don't disagree--I'm simply speaking about visceral, un-acted upon, inclinations in the moment.
MADem
Jun 2012
#40
I think the outcry has been fantastic--those kids are going to wish they never pulled this "stunt"
MADem
Jun 2012
#162
i doubt those kids -- from a white, middle-class suburban district -- get a lot of corporal punish-
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#172
My dad would have blistered my ass, something like this, unthinkable.
Puzzledtraveller
Jun 2012
#176
how sad that is to watch - she tries to do the right thing in volunteering - and what does she get
DrDan
Jun 2012
#11
If they had been bullying another student, she would have had more choices as to what to do
proud2BlibKansan
Jun 2012
#22
I agree the whole thing stinks of poor mgmt at least one level up from her position.
Lionessa
Jun 2012
#39
Actually, it stinks of overly indulged little brats not being taught an ounce of respect for others
Downtown Hound
Jun 2012
#85
Empathy cannot be taught, try as you might. I'm sorry my PTSD symptoms bother you however
Lionessa
Jun 2012
#201
I wouldn't rely on your dysfunction as an accurate diagnoser of social problems if I were you
Downtown Hound
Jun 2012
#203
I have done nothing cruel, but of course you need to exaggerate to excuse your BS.
Lionessa
Jun 2012
#208
It lacks empathy or sympathy, but it isn't cruel. You throw that word around so carelessly as to
Lionessa
Jun 2012
#211
This additional information makes any vicious and obtuse "cry baby" remarks even more callous.
MADem
Jun 2012
#166
You need to read what other people write, and stop making assumptions about what they mean.
MADem
Jun 2012
#24
And what happens when the same little bullies do this to someone who is not a bus monitor
sabrina 1
Jun 2012
#84
+1,000 -- if you go to the OP link, there's a Facebook link at the right to a support page. nt
MADem
Jun 2012
#164
Hence the bus company's fault for misplacing, lack of training, perhaps more, and why the OUTRAGE
Lionessa
Jun 2012
#214
+1. i joined some other kids in taunting a teacher when i was in middle-school. i didn't have
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#175
Given that this is the only discussion forum I've been to where someone has attacked the poor woman
WildEyedLiberal
Jun 2012
#70
Why are you ascribing the conduct of one to everyone here? Hardly "progressive" if you ask me.
MADem
Jun 2012
#134
one more reason to stay in the Asia/Pacific region - Children NEVER behave that way here
Douglas Carpenter
Jun 2012
#76
I can't find her page now but my friend just told me it was up to $200K!!
proud2BlibKansan
Jun 2012
#150
Here's what I wish could happen the next time these evil little shits get on the school bus:
Brigid
Jun 2012
#80
teachers face the same thing; they have no real authority and the kids know it.
StarryNight
Jun 2012
#105
If she had yelled or even hit one of them, especially when on touched oher on the back
mfcorey1
Jun 2012
#108
What could possibly turn 14 year olds into such sick, demented little fucks?
BlueStater
Jun 2012
#109
Around the end of the vid the kids were threating to stab the monitor, WTF is up with that?!!?!?
uponit7771
Jun 2012
#152
That's a criminal offense, is what it is--an opening to involve the police and charge the little
MADem
Jun 2012
#153
Mob mentality plus the certainty of not facing any real punishment
4th law of robotics
Jun 2012
#157
i think they hadn't gotten the response they hoped for so they were upping the ante.
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#177
Someday, when these kids are grown up and serving time for their first felony as an adult,
TheManInTheMac
Jun 2012
#167
The little pricks are dumb enough to record their nastiness and post it on the Internet
slackmaster
Jun 2012
#180
I watched that clip and thought that these young people could very well be posting on DU
Skidmore
Jun 2012
#181
Well, in all fairness, I've never seen anyone threaten to stab anyone here on DU
proud2BlibKansan
Jun 2012
#187
I commend her for her restraint. I am also very sad for the kids who have to endure this
FedUpWithIt All
Jun 2012
#239