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Old 10-31-2016, 01:03 PM
 
Location: Brackenwood
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IF there's a bus monitor.
There is no "if." My daughter's school has 850 students and they're responsible for accounting for how every single one of them leaves the building at the end of the day. So trust me when I tell you there's a whole battalion of bus monitors out there making sure every kid on a bus route gets on their assigned bus.
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Old 10-31-2016, 01:17 PM
 
Location: Sun City West, Arizona
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Who the hell lets a 5 year old travel by a bus? Even if it's a school bus, I would not be comfortable with the idea.
Millions of parents for decades.
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Old 10-31-2016, 01:41 PM
 
Location: Sun City West, Arizona
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Same thing that happens every day. (S)he gets the students' names as they get on the bus and checks them off on the route list. If any student is unaccounted for, (s)he gets a bus monitor to reconcile the list.

This isn't rocket science, folks.
I think it's more the responsibility of a staff member, rather than a bus driver.
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Old 10-31-2016, 01:44 PM
 
Location: State of Transition
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There is no "if." My daughter's school has 850 students and they're responsible for accounting for how every single one of them leaves the building at the end of the day. So trust me when I tell you there's a whole battalion of bus monitors out there making sure every kid on a bus route gets on their assigned bus.
That's your school. Not all schools operate the same; that much is clear from the posts on this thread. We're not discussing your school, but a broader concern about schools nation-wide.
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Old 10-31-2016, 01:44 PM
 
Location: Sun City West, Arizona
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No, I'm not at all. I was speaking hypothetically about the future. After this incident, the principal "could" take this or that action. The preceding sentence, "This situation shouldn't be allowed to continue" indicates a discussion about future solutions follows, not assumptions about the past occurrence. If I'd been making an assumption about the past event, I'd have said "could have" done X, using a past verb tense. You misread the post.
No I didn't. You seem to think that a staff member sees every single thing that happens between one kid and another. Impossible.

Heck, most parents can't control their kids 100% of the time, either.
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Old 10-31-2016, 01:45 PM
 
Location: Brackenwood
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I think it's more the responsibility of a staff member, rather than a bus driver.
Any bus driver who leaves without accounting for all the students on his/her route will quickly find out otherwise.
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Old 10-31-2016, 01:45 PM
 
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I think it's more the responsibility of a staff member, rather than a bus driver.
At our school a staff member checks them off a list.
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Old 10-31-2016, 01:46 PM
 
Location: Sun City West, Arizona
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And yet, at least one school has been able to make such a system work. It's not a matter of legal authority.
It is absolutely a matter of legal authority.
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Old 10-31-2016, 01:47 PM
 
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It is absolutely a matter of legal authority.
Then someone had better alert the schools that are using older kids to monitor buses.
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Old 10-31-2016, 01:47 PM
 
Location: Sun City West, Arizona
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Any bus driver who leaves without accounting for all the students on his/her route will quickly find out otherwise.
How does a bus driver with a list know which children may have been taken to a dentist or doctor appointment during the day. Bus drivers are not responsible for school attendance. Teachers are, and attendance books are considered a legal record of attendance.
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