Well, we've had our share of stone throwing at the driver and at the school. Someone else failed to.

At five you should be able to look out the door, and say "I don't think this my stop." ESPECIALLY if the kid's mother is normally there. I'm sorry, but I think at least as much fault lies with the kid as with the driver, especially if the driver has only been on the route for four days as was implied by the article vs a kid who's been living in this neighborhood for most of his life. I can't imagine a driver being willing to physically pick up and throw off a kid, sorry, he should have spoken up. (We've got a whole thread on that right now- the irony.)

Kaleb was only a "few blocks from home". Thats what, half a mile?. Sorry, but when I was growing up, I knew how to get home. A long rifle shot worth of walking, in a storm, would have sounded like an adventure to me when I was that little and living someplace where there actually were blocks. I would walk to friends houses and they over to mine, and it was a "few blocks". And if you are a "few blocks" from home, and don't know where you are, shame on your parents.

Lots of failure here, lots of it.