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Bus driver leaves five-year-old to make his own way home

(Click the photo for the Top 10 Crazy Teacher Meltdowns) Riding the school bus can be nerve-wracking enough for a five-year-old without the bus driver dropping you in what might as well be the middle of nowhere and just leaving you there. That, ...

Riding the subway - to school?

How do your kids get to school? How did you get to school when you were a kid? Taking the yellow school bus, walking or riding a bike may all seem like normal methods of getting to school. In the modern world, we drive and carpool as well. But what ...

Bus driver poses as cop, kids behave

Before William Dunn substituted for another school bus driver, he was warned about the unruly passengers. He claims the regular driver had been harassed by the students and that he decided the best way to avoid that himself was to go on the ...

School bus driver crashes bus, saves kids

Having grown up in the civilized climate of San Francisco, where we limit our extreme weather to a few days of rain per year just to prove we're hardcore, I'm always amazed and bewildered by stories of extreme weather from elsewhere in the world. ...

The crash position: good to know!

Yesterday, I did something that I hadn't done in almost 20 years: I crashed my car. It happened while I was driving Ellie to school. The roads were icy and when I came to a red light, I couldn't get my car to cease the forward motion. We went into a ...

When is it considered bullying?

Ever since Ellie started first grade, she has been coming home telling me about a certain boy on the bus who has been giving her a hard time. He's a third grader and sits in the same row with his second-grader sister and Ellie. In the beginning, the ...

10-year-old's bus stealing 'prank'

When school officials in Dumas, Arkansas spotted lights coming from the school bus yard around 11 pm, they figured they had a bus thief on their hands. They were right and ultimately officers from three counties, four towns and the Arkansas State ...

5-year-old suspended for hiding on the school bus

Ellie loves to play hiding games. All the time. I will leave the room and come back seconds later to find her gone. She's not really gone, but crouched down behind a chair, trying with all her might not to laugh out loud. It's cute the first hundred ...

The bus stop mom club

Last year, when Ellie was attending a private school, I would drive her to school each morning. My route took us past the corner school bus stop, where the neighborhood moms stood chatting while waiting with their kids for the bus to arrive. I would ...

Fighting gangs with classical music?

Like a lot of American cities, Tacoma, Washington has a problem with gangs. When the thugs aren't out doing their thug business, they tend to congregate in public places. In an effort to discourage this, city authorities are attempting to annoy them ...

Pregnant Mom kicked off bus due to toddler tantrum

It seems to me that, all of a sudden, there is a backlash against people with toddlers that act out. By now, I'm sure you heard the story about the family kicked off an airplane due to a toddler. Now a lady, who was nine months pregnant at the time, ...

Kids get kicked off bus for speaking English

I've heard of teenagers getting kicked off buses for swearing, but I didn't know it was possible to get kicked off a bus for speaking English. But that's what happened in St. Paul, Minnesota on Monday. Rachel Armstrong sent her kids to the bus stop ...

Getting to Disneyland: Anaheim Resort Transit

If you're staying in one of the hotels anywhere around Disneyland, you have a much better option than paying for parking in the Disneyland parking structure. The Anaheim Resort Transit system offers a number of routes traveling between the area ...

The wheels on the bus go straight to the ER

I'll admit it, I hated riding the bus when I was in school. The older kids freaked me out, the kids my own age wouldn't talk to me, and -- just in case I wasn't already awash in social dysfunction -- even the little kids seemed way cooler than I was. ...

Fourteen-year-old hero saves bus driver, schoolmates, despite own injuries

Like millions of other middle school students across the country, Mariela Hernandez, of Ruskin, Florida, rode the bus to school Friday morning. Unlike most of those other kids, however, the bus she was riding collided with a milk truck. She was ...

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