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Back of the Bus!
Topic Started: Sep 6 2006, 02:03 PM (944 Views)
ny1911
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There's not much left of me to tell.
I just got back up each time I fell.
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Aqua Letifer
Sep 7 2006, 02:37 PM
LWpianistin
Sep 7 2006, 10:36 AM
Aqua Letifer
Sep 7 2006, 02:31 PM


Most things work this way.  Who gets out of elevators first?  Why, the folks closest to the door, a course.

It depends which floor they're all getting off at. People in the back of the elevator often need to get off earlier than those in the front.

Well yes, there could be a billion outliers to the example, but I wanted to make it simple, so I worked with an "all things being equal" assumption when I posted my example. In the example I assumed all got out at the same stop.

I figured. I was just being picky.
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kenny
Sep 7 2006, 12:32 PM
Hmm
I seem to recall sitting on the seat.

Maybe things are different today. :(

Somewhat.

Used to, you could get three kids to a seat. Nowadays, with bigger kids, and the big backpacks that all the munchkins have, two is about as good as it gets.

Here's one that may surprise you....a lot of California school districts have busses that are thirty years old, and sometimes older. In Louisiana, the State Department of Education mandates no older than 10 years old, for safety reasons.

I'm guessing the mean income in Red River Parish does not exceed $25K. Couple that with Homestead Exemption, and I'd like to see some of our resident rocket scientists run a school district with that kind of money....
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Sep 7 2006, 02:38 PM
School busses are pretty crowded these days, Kenny...when we were little, we didn't have backpacks the size of carry on luggage. Good drivers are a real special breed...kids can be a colossal mess. Discipline has to be tight...you have to be able to concentrate to drive and when you stop, it can't be any different. You are responsible for them getting out safely as well. All it takes is one bully's leg thrust into the aisle and you've got a kid with fewer front teeth.

For this reason, why would the kids getting on last walk all the way to the back of the bus? Surely it makes more sense to have the ones who get on first go right to the back and fill the bus from the back forwards...
Pfft.
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Sep 7 2006, 10:58 AM
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Sep 7 2006, 02:38 PM
School busses are pretty crowded these days, Kenny...when we were little, we didn't have backpacks the size of carry on luggage.  Good drivers are a real special breed...kids can be a colossal mess.  Discipline has to be tight...you have to be able to concentrate to drive and when you stop, it can't be any different.  You are responsible for them getting out safely as well.  All it takes is one bully's leg thrust into the aisle and you've got a kid with fewer front teeth.

For this reason, why would the kids getting on last walk all the way to the back of the bus? Surely it makes more sense to have the ones who get on first go right to the back and fill the bus from the back forwards...

I ask myself this anytime I fly.
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There's not much left of me to tell.
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Hmm.. but on airplanes the people at the front have paid more...
Pfft.
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Jane D'Oh
Sep 7 2006, 11:01 AM
Hmm.. but on airplanes the people at the front have paid more...

Haha, idiots. Everybody knows that the shinanigans happen in the back seats. :lol:
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Sep 7 2006, 11:01 AM
Hmm.. but on airplanes the people at the front have paid more...

Not on southwest
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Sep 7 2006, 11:04 AM
Jane D'Oh
Sep 7 2006, 11:01 AM
Hmm.. but on airplanes the people at the front have paid more...

Haha, idiots. Everybody knows that the shinanigans happen in the back seats. :lol:

and that used to be the case on the busses I rode on. The back was the place to be :leaving:
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I just got back up each time I fell.
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Jane D'Oh
Sep 7 2006, 01:58 PM
DivaDeb
Sep 7 2006, 02:38 PM
School busses are pretty crowded these days, Kenny...when we were little, we didn't have backpacks the size of carry on luggage.  Good drivers are a real special breed...kids can be a colossal mess.  Discipline has to be tight...you have to be able to concentrate to drive and when you stop, it can't be any different.  You are responsible for them getting out safely as well.  All it takes is one bully's leg thrust into the aisle and you've got a kid with fewer front teeth.

For this reason, why would the kids getting on last walk all the way to the back of the bus? Surely it makes more sense to have the ones who get on first go right to the back and fill the bus from the back forwards...

Really depends on the trip direction and where the loading is done. If the kids are loaded all at once in a safe area next to the school when the engine isn't running and the driver is not seated, it's easier to supervise that loading than the stop/start unloading in the streets.

Here there is a strict procedure for both loading and dropping off.
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ny1911
Sep 7 2006, 11:07 AM
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Sep 7 2006, 11:04 AM
Jane D'Oh
Sep 7 2006, 11:01 AM
Hmm.. but on airplanes the people at the front have paid more...

Haha, idiots. Everybody knows that the shinanigans happen in the back seats. :lol:

and that used to be the case on the busses I rode on. The back was the place to be :leaving:

That jells with my memories, distant and faint as they are. The back was the place to be. If you got caught acting up there, the driver made you sit in the front.

This whole thing seems to be getting a lot more attention that I would have thought it deserved. Seeing everything in racial terms gives a much too black and white view of the world than really exists, IMHO.

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Sep 7 2006, 01:19 PM
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Sep 7 2006, 10:15 AM
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Sep 7 2006, 01:10 PM
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Sep 7 2006, 09:32 AM
Uh, no.  Not everything in the world operates by a military model.  A school bus is not a naval vessel off the coast of Lebanon.
 
Perhaps you might quote any administrative procedure manual, in the U.S. or Canada, that says that the bus driver of a school bus is captain of the ship, or has ultimate authority, or anything like that.  To the best of my knowledge, that's not true anywhere.  Not even in the rural environs of our northern neighbors.

Don't be obtuse and F.U. 2 dipsh1t. The driver of any vehicle, and particularly one that transports the general public is in full charge when the vehicle is on the road.

Look who's talking about being obtuse and lame-brained. You compare a captain of a ship to a bus driver, as if there's any comparability. Of course the school bus driver is in charge. So's the manager at McDonald's, but he's no captain of a ship.

You chose a dumbass example, and now you look like even more of a dumbass for trying to defend it.

Listen you godamned Yankee sh1t for brains liberal, it's a colloquial expression for "who's the boss" not a comparison. So f*ck off and go wait in the truck with Rick and that other odious one..

Eat s*** and die, you pr***.
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Good drivers are a real special breed


Very true. We had a great one the last few years, but he just retired.
It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010.
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Jolly
Sep 7 2006, 01:46 PM
kenny
Sep 7 2006, 12:32 PM
Hmm
I seem to recall sitting on the seat.

Maybe things are different today. :(

Somewhat.

Used to, you could get three kids to a seat. Nowadays, with bigger kids, and the big backpacks that all the munchkins have, two is about as good as it gets.

Here's one that may surprise you....a lot of California school districts have busses that are thirty years old, and sometimes older. In Louisiana, the State Department of Education mandates no older than 10 years old, for safety reasons.

I'm guessing the mean income in Red River Parish does not exceed $25K. Couple that with Homestead Exemption, and I'd like to see some of our resident rocket scientists run a school district with that kind of money....

You get the educational system you're willing to pay for. That includes buses.
It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010.
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please stop being so nasty and ugly. I will remind you that this is a family forum. We never used that kind of talk in the OCR and we shouldn't be using it here. If you must get that ugly please take it to a PM.

Thank you.
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Actually, we did use that kind of language, regularly, in the OCR. Far more regularly than here.

I, however, will pledge not to curse, except in response to others who start cursing at me first. As happened above.

Please remind me of that pledge if I stray.
It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010.
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Yep - but Larry has a lifetime pass.
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Jolly
Sep 7 2006, 09:15 AM
sue
Sep 7 2006, 08:54 AM
So does this mean she has been doing this for 25 years, and this is the first time anyone's complained about her? Or were these 9 kids her first encounter with non-whites? What a huge step backwards.

Do you have a reading comprehension problem?

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Board attorney Jon Guice said Davis had no record of previous reprimands. He also said that Easley investigated the complaints and believes Davis' actions were not motivated by race.

No I don't, sweetcheeks; the above quote was made in a posting at the same time as mine, and I hadn't seen it.

And call me cynical, but having "no record of previous reprimands" is not the same as having no complaints.
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Sep 7 2006, 05:23 PM
sweetcheeks

Oh my. :tsktsk:



:popcorn:
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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Yo! Stop hogging it all, John!

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Sep 7 2006, 03:36 PM
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Sep 7 2006, 05:23 PM
sweetcheeks

Oh my. :tsktsk:



:popcorn:

Admit it.

If she called you sweetcheeks, you'd lay on your back like a dog and wave your limbs in the air....
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Sep 7 2006, 06:05 PM
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Sep 7 2006, 05:23 PM
sweetcheeks

Oh my. :tsktsk:



:popcorn:

Admit it.

If she called you sweetcheeks, you'd lay on your back like a dog and wave your limbs in the air....

I did that when she called you sweetcheeks. I don't think I'd survive the excitement if it was me.
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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Sep 7 2006, 11:47 AM
Eat s*** and die, you pr***.

Kiss mine you stunned Yankee f*ckwad.
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Oh my. You two need a time out. I don't give a $*%@&#^$#&% (#*$&% @ who started it.

:D Jodi




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jodi
Sep 7 2006, 06:21 PM
Oh my. You two need a time out. I don't give a $*%@&#^$#&% (#*$&% @ who started it.

:D Jodi

Then that's a difference between us, Jodi. I do.
It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010.
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