Adventures in Bus Driving

Well, I'm getting better... I didn't miss anyone's house yesterday afternoon. Although, I did almost miss one kid this morning. He lives on the main road and I drop him off in the afternoon but they told me he NEVER rides in the mornings and this is twice now! He did say that he would be riding the bus every morning this week so at least now I know.

Yesterday afternoon after all the kids were on the bus we sat still for like 10 minutes. I got them to not be so freaking loud last week and this week they are going to learn not to hang half their bodies out into the aisle. I told them to face forward, sit down in the seat, and put their feet on the floor in front of them, and clear the aisle. Most of them did, but there will always be those pain in the neck kids who just live to make you work. I looked right at those kids and calmly said, "This bus is not moving until you comply with the rules." They finally sat down the right way (the safe way BTW, I'm not just nit-picking here) And I started off.

Two minutes later we were sitting still again because they were in the aisle again. So this morning, the first time I had to say something to anyone about getting out of the aisle, some of bigger kids started yelling at the kids who were hanging into the aisle (also older kids) at one point this morning at a stop one the the big kids got up and walked two rows back and physically put another kid's foot back where it should have been instead of out in the aisle where he could trip someone (or if I had to stop suddenly or there was an accident he could be badly hurt from being in an area that is not designed for riders. )

So it is getting better, I have a few trouble makers but most of them (even the trouble makers) are good kids.