Bus Driver disciplined for kicking students off bus

[Simaahoy]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa...r-apology.html

OC Transpo has apologized after a driver kicked 30 students off the 176 bus in Barrhaven yesterday.

The transit agency's general manager John Manconi said the driver forced the Longfields-Davidson Heights Secondary School students to leave the bus after several pranks where the bus bell was pulled but no one exited the bus.

Manconi said this was not proper procedure, and that the driver should have contacted the control centre and awaited the assistance of a supervisor or a special constable.

Manconi said OC Transpo management has met with the driver and said "appropriate actions have been taken."

"OC Transpo would like to apologize to the 30 students and their parents. I have contacted Ms. Patsy Agard, Principal of Longfields-Davidson Heights Secondary School, to discuss the incident and convey our apology," said Manconi.

"Ms. Agard offered her assistance should this situation repeat itself in the future. The students should not have been asked to disembark the bus," said Manconi.

In my opinion, the students should be apologizing to the bus driver and passengers they disrupted with their behavior. The bus driver shouldn't be disciplined Thirty kids wow

[Tabooger]

Once when I was coming back from uni, the bus stops by a hs, and a couple of kids got in through the back. So the bus driver decided it would be best to kick EVERYONE off the bus. I reported the driver from the bus number right there and then. Sorry bud, but if you can't handle everyday stress don't become one. I usually side with the crap they have to put up with, but kicking everyone off because two kids got in through the back is unacceptable. People have places to go, things to do and rely on public transportation.

[ishfish]

I wonder what the supervisor would have done should the driver had accessed the proper procedure?

[sandikosh]

If I was the bus driver, I would do the same! Damn kids today thinks it's all a joke.

[ishfish]

If I was the bus driver, I would do the same! Damn kids today thinks it's all a joke.

Certain routes would require great skill and refinement of temperment.

I wonder what would have to happen for a child to be disallowed from using the bus? Too bad there is not a transitguy here.

[Poulet]

I couldn't be a bus driver. I have a low tolerance for dumb kids

[john widow]

I remember one time I was sitting near two-three college guys on the bus. While at a stop one threw a bunch of those papers that are hanging on the bus for people to read out the window and onto the grass outside. The bus driver noticed and announced to the dude to pick up the stuff or the bus aint moving. He picked it up.

Sometimes I would hop on an express bus towards home...It's same route and shape as regular buses but isn't officially supposed to stop at all the stops...just the main stops. Some girl was on this bus and wanted to get off at a certain stop in between and the bus driver was mad because ur not supposed to cheat and take this bus if you want to get off at this certain stop....He stopped a bus a few blocks down and she had to walk....I think he acted that way because she was giving the bus driver attitude first instead of being sincere and polite....

[AudiDude]

The driver of the late bus from my HS used to do this regular. We called her the "Late Bus B**ch". When she got stressed, she'd yell at everybody. If she got lip from anybody, she threw us all off. My buddy got yelled at because he sat by an open window and she accused him of opening it and told him to close it or else she'd throw him off the bus. Furthest we walked was for over 2km to get home.

It was one of the girls in my class' mother. Woman had thick painted on eyebrows and a makeup job that looked like this:

[No Frills]

Kids need to be disciplined, not bus drivers.

[googoo]

In my opinion, the students should be apologizing to the bus driver and passengers they disrupted with their behavior. The bus driver shouldn't be disciplined

+56.5

[Manatus]

I think it's important to note that this was not a school bus, just a regular bus. With a school bus you can say that the driver should be expecting some level of childish behaviour and still be able to operate the bus safely without being distracted. School buses also have more of an obligation to get their passengers to their destination as they are contracted by the schools for children. I totally agree with them being kicked off a regular bus. There are people on that bus who are annoyed and inconvenienced by this behaviour. If it was a drunk college student who was pressing all the buttons, wouldn't you expect him to get ejected? It's the same thing really. If they don't know how to behave in public, they shouldn't be on a public bus by themselves.

[Cas77]

"OC Transpo would like to apologize to the 30 students and their parents."

Parents shouldn't be apologized to, they should be doing the apologizing for raising the most self entitled, dysfunctional, disrespectful and lazy generation in history.

[mbg]

I'd be OK with it if he kicked off or Tasered the troublesome kids only, but kicking all of them off seems a bit too much.

[Poulet]

Or let the other passengers do something about it. Make it educational

[at1212b]

No wonder the young are so spoiled today.