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Date Posted: 10:28:42 10/04/01 Thu
Author: Dennis Williams
Subject: Re: Phone calls and personal confrontation!
In reply to: Kelly 's message, "Phone calls and personal confrontation!" on 09:06:42 10/04/01 Thu

Dear Kelly,

Sorry, got no answer for this one (although I did indeed walk through snow uphill both ways -- but that was later when I was supporting a wife and child working for $1.35/hour). ;-)

Seriously, when I served on the School Committee for three years, the ugliest, stupidest, silliest stuff was always about some bus driver misbehaving or doing something crazy -- or about some little darling who just could not behave on the bus. (The one exception to this was when a school principal didn't know she had asbestos in her school and didn't know she was supposed to have a plan at her fingertips. That was *really* ugly!)

I don't know why the bus deal is no fraught with problems. I never figured it out. All we ever asked was that drivers be courteous and professional, and 99 times out of 100 they are. You want management to support them when somebody gets out of hand. They had recourse. You can throw kids off the bus (permanently if necessary) if they just can't behave. Instead, once in a while, they flip a nutty or forget a kid on the bus, or skip a stop, or some other thing.

Let's take the millions we spend on buses each year, build sidewalks and keep them clear of snow, and ... oh, never mind! I know! It's not the 1950s anymore! ;-)

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