Bus Driver Orders Five Year Old Off Bus Five Miles From Home

[Jeanette X]

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/education...12/detail.html

Driver Orders Crying Girl, 5, Off Bus 5 Miles From Home
Child Got On Wrong Bus

POSTED: 12:24 pm PDT August 13, 2004
RIALTO, Calif. -- A 5-year-old girl ended her first-ever ride on a school bus stranded and in tears because a Rialto school bus driver ordered her off five miles away from home.

First-grader Sarah Macias told the bus driver the stop at Mango and Walnut avenues in Fontana. Calif., wasn't hers, but the driver told her to get off along an open field where there were few homes and no stores. It was her first bus ride.

Claudia Walker of Rialto spotted the frightened girl and took her to the Fontana Police Department. The girl's parents were called and they were reunited an hour later.

The August 4 incident, which was made public on Thursday, occurred at the end of the second day of school when Sarah was instructed by a teacher to follow girls boarding a bus. Sarah's shoe fell off, however, and she got distracted and boarded the wrong bus.

The girl says she was told to get off when the bus reached its last stop.

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[Bobo Adobo]

Mean people Suck

[FS]

That... that sick BASTARD!

[da blob]

only the strong will survive.

[FartinMowler]

fire the bus driver :/ and make an example out of him or her.

[ArrowX]

burn the fucker at the stake

[Sethomas]

Have him knighted for his valor.

[conus]

First Sarah claims she was instructed by a teacher to follow the other girls. Then her shoe falls off. Finally she is "distracted" and boards the wrong bus. Next I suppose she'll retain an attorney and force the tax paying citizens of Rialto to reward her for her inability or refusal to get with the program.

[pjalne]

I bet you could get from your house to Nicuragua all by yourself when you were five, huh?

[kahljorn]

I guess the kid learned a valuable lesson about paying attention! Now she doesn't have to worry about ADD.

[The_Rorschach]

She should have been at least delivered back to the school. Leaving a five year old to their own devices in an alien environment is hardly acceptable behaviour from any adult.

Being a school bus driver is more than simply shuttling children, and if the mindless plebe behind the wheel fails to grasp that, he should be left on a windswept crag until until the stars burn out.

[Perndog]

Shit, my bus driver wouldn't let me get off at the next stop down the road if I was sleeping on the way home in FUCKING SIXTH GRADE because she didn't trust me to get back safely.