I was picking up the child from school and pulled behind one of the buses leaving. Almost immediately, a 5th grade boy in the last seat started flipping me off. Not just a quick raise of the finger, but he held his hand up high and held it there as the bus drove down the road, stopped at the stop light, turned and proceeded to drive some more. He didn't put it down until one of his laughing friends pointed out that I had my phone pointing toward them. Must've caught on that I was taking a picture.
I followed the bus as it pulled into an apartment complex, then as it slowed down, I came around the side to talk to the driver. She was, apparently, stopping to let a child off. I had thought she was merely slowing down to go over a speed bump right in front of where she stopped. She started yelling at me that I can't go around her when she had her signs out. I told her she didn't put out her signs until I got on the side of her. Then, I told her about the boy in the back and what he was doing.
I described exactly what he looked like and where he was sitting. She yelled, "Hey, whoever is making obscene gestures better quit it!" then she carried on about her business of closing her doors to leave. I said, "Excuse me, I just told you exactly which child it was.. not 'whoever it is.'" She looked at me like "what do you want ME to do about it?!" So, I pulled off before she put the bus in gear and when I got to my house, I called the office.
When I was explaining what happened to the principal, she became really pissed and said she was tired of the trouble with that bus, that she is getting reports about the kids at the back of the bus all the time. She knew exactly who I was talking about, too.
I told her about the conversation with the bus driver, but that the bus driver didn't seem interested in singling out exactly who it was even though I told her exactly where he was sitting. The principal said, "Oh, WE will single him out. You can bet on that! I'm tired of this!" She started talking about how it makes the school look when these kids disrespect people on that bus. I told her that yes, it was completely wrong to disrespect an adult like that, but I told her they didn't know who I was, that I could be some really sick demented person. She agreed. I asked her what she thinks would have happened if it had been a group of teenage boys. She said she didn't even have to guess, they would wait for him and teach him a lesson their way.
After I got off the phone with her, I came inside and told my husband what happened. He said, "Oh, hell no! If that had been me, I would have followed that little fucker home and scared the living shit out of him." He said more than that, but I won't repeat it.. our twisted sense of humor doesn't appeal to many LOL. He really was more pissed than I was, though. So then, I called my friend and told her. She said pretty much the same thing and that she would have stormed onto that bus, gone to the back, and asked if he wanted her to cut off his finger, among other things. After listening to her and hubby, I was like, "Yeah, so pretty much exactly the kind of danger I told the principal about."
Kids today just have absolutely no respect. Even the principal came right out and asked if he was blatant about it in a tone that I knew she already knew he was, just expected it. Parents really don't give a shit about raising their kids with dignity and respect for others. Why are we wondering how our country got the way it is?
Yeah, it pissed me off for that reason bigtime, but honestly, I couldn't help but think about the danger this kid was putting himself in behaving like that. He doesn't know me. He doesn't know my daughter. He just decided to be a little asshole to anyone behind the bus.
Kids just aren't being raised anymore. They're being left to their own devices, and worse yet, parents are letting them get away with it when they are told what's going on because they're just too busy to be bothered by the child they chose to bring into this world. And this doesn't even begin to go into the subject of the targets they are raising for predators.
I have said it a MILLION times and I'll say it a TRILLION more until it's done: People need a license to breed!
***UPDATE***
So, I heard back from the principal about the little boy who should have his middle finger shoved up his ass. Even though I was told by the assistant principal last night that they always have trouble with those three and that bus, the principal told me this little boy never does anything wrong and this behavior is very unlike him. His excuse was that it started off as the peace sign but his friends talked him into changing it to the middle finger. (No, it was never the peace sign.) She said he, also, wrote a letter of apology to me, which was his only punishment. This is his letter.... supposedly written by him .... a 5th grade boy who likes to flip off strangers in cars behind the bus...:"Dear Parent,
I'm sorry for my actions. They were completely inapropriate and unnecessary. I feel really bad and really sorry. The pressure of all the students made me slip up and I realize I was wrong of doing this action. I apologize with all my heart and I will never do it ever again. If I could go back and change what I did, I would."
All those who think this was something he copied or was dictated to him, please raise your hand.
It's funny on the surface but really, all this is doing is letting another Billy Badass in the making off without real consequences. Do I really have to say it again that we adults are why our kids are the way they are today?
"Dear Parent,I'm sorry for my actions. They were completely inapropriate and unnecessary. I feel really bad and really sorry. The pressure of all the students made me slip up and I realize I was wrong of doing this action. I apologize with all my heart and I will never do it ever again. If I could go back and change what I did, I would."
All those who think this was something he copied or was dictated to him, please raise your hand.
It's funny on the surface but really, all this is doing is letting another Billy Badass in the making off without real consequences. Do I really have to say it again that we adults are why our kids are the way they are today?
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