Good Morning Dagny,
I guess I'm at a bit of a loss here. If I'm in the wrong then I sincerely apologize. I did not feel that what I said was being "harsh, Monday morning quarterbacking or sniping". If this were some sort of hypothetical situation rather than an actual happening, my response would not have been any different. It's just truly how I feel.
I agree with you that bus drivers are probably paid a pittance for a lot of responsibility. The key word is responsibility. As the article stated, the bus driver has the responsibility to keep the kids safe. I don't really see letting a child off alone in a wild thunderstorm any differently than the same bus driver driving the kids home in a reckless manner.
Again, if I offended you then I apologize.
Best Regards,
LW
Not at all. It wasn't directed at anyone in particular. I'm sounding like a bit of a prig in that post. Perhaps I should redact. Maybe the bus driver was reckless.
I was just struck by what an enormous responsibility bus drivers are apparently assumed to have now and the snap public judgments the Internet allows.
Maybe bus drivers always were charged with such a level of responsibility. I don't know. Probably varies with the school district. I rode a bus for a couple of years in junior high, in a rural Oregon town, but that's it. I walked to school when I was a little kid. In a Los Angeles suburb. We had a crossing guard to help us across a major boulevard but were otherwise on our own until we got home. It was a several block walk. Different place. Different era.
A lot of poorly paid workers -- child care, comes to mind -- have huge responsibilities for other peoples' children.
God help them, and the children, if they make a mistake.
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