mv_princess said:Why didn't mom take her to school? Or stay with her at the bus stop?
Penn said:Couldn't the mother have gone out to the bus stop, with her daughter, and made sure she got on the bus without any problems?
Heck, she had to have known her daughter had an ailment.
Her mom knew she was hurt. She even stated that.Sadysue said:I disagree, if the girl got hurt playing or something the day before, it's possible her mother did not know. I used to keep stuff like that from my parents all the time for fear I would get in trouble or have to go to the doctor. That bus driver was wrong to do that. School employees should not abandon students no matter what the circumstances.
Hello.“It just made me mad to think about it,” Miranda said. “I don't get to play outdoor sports and do anything and it’s just not fair.”
Miranda Richardson said she hates not being able to stand on her own two feet, but her mother feels like, at 11, she shouldn't have to.
She wasn't laying there hurt, she was standing (wasn't she?) when the bus driver asked "Are you getting on the bus?" To which she answered, "NO" Smart bus driver if you ask me.. he gets off the bus and touches her.. sued for inapropriatte touching.. or SUED for leaving the bus unattended when one of the other passengers decides to take it for a ride when he gets off to help her.. SUED for injuring the child when she tells her parents the driver helped her on the bus and made the injury worse. OR he sits there and waits, with all the kids on the bus while she sits and cries... It was a no win for him/her, and I'm thinking they did the right thing.vraiblonde said:Hello.
The Mom sounds like a lazy POS and she's teaching her daughter to be the same way. The bus driver was in the wrong for just driving off and leaving a hurt kid laying on the sidewalk but I will suggest that the kid is a PITA and the driver was all out of patience and sympathy.
I agree it wasn't the bus drivers responsibility and it also sounds like the mom should have never put her child in this position to begin with, I'm thinking if her hip dislocates that easily this is not something new to the mom or the girl, but I am upset at the thought of that 11 girl having to stay there in pain until someone finds her. I doubt she was able to walk back home with a dislocated hip.itsbob said:She wasn't laying there hurt, she was standing (wasn't she?) when the bus driver asked "Are you getting on the bus?" To shich she answered, "NO" Smart bus driver if you ask me.. he gets off the bus and touches her.. sued for inapropriatte touching.. or SUED for leaving the bus unattended when one of the other passengers decides to take it for a ride when he gets off to help her.. SUED for injuring the child when she tells her parents the driver helped her on the bus and made the injury worse. OR he sits there and waits, with all the kids on the bus while she sits and cries... It was a no win for him/her, and I'm thinking they did the right thing.
Yep, parents need to take responsibilty for this one..
itsbob said:She wasn't laying there hurt, she was standing (wasn't she?) when the bus driver asked "Are you getting on the bus?" To which she answered, "NO" Smart bus driver if you ask me.. he gets off the bus and touches her.. sued for inapropriatte touching.. or SUED for leaving the bus unattended when one of the other passengers decides to take it for a ride when he gets off to help her.. SUED for injuring the child when she tells her parents the driver helped her on the bus and made the injury worse. OR he sits there and waits, with all the kids on the bus while she sits and cries... It was a no win for him/her, and I'm thinking they did the right thing.
In the end he may lose his job, but at least he keeps his home..
Yep, parents need to take responsibilty for this one..
Gwydion said:100% dead on. Its disgusting how easily people are suing over things.....hell for all we know, the mom could have worked out every scenario like itsbob just did and had a lawyer standing by to sue the hell out of the bus driver and the school.
When I was in middle school, our bus driver came to a complete stop at every house for EXACTLY 10 seconds. If you were not on the bus, you missed it. Even if you were 10 feet away frm the bus, that door shut and you had to walk back home and call your parents to drive you.
Are you for real? 11 years old is middle-school age. This is why kids are so retarded these days - because they're treated like retards. When I was 11, I walked to and from school unsupervised AND I caught the city bus and went downtown without a babysitter. Hell, I WAS a babysitter.PsyOps said:In today's world what parent, in the right mind, would leave their 11 year old kid at a bus stop alone?
That's not what I read:itsbob said:She wasn't laying there hurt, she was standing (wasn't she?) when the bus driver asked "Are you getting on the bus?" To which she answered, "NO"
So you're saying that if a kid gets hurt at the bus stop, the driver should just leave them there and has no responsibility to try and help them or at least *call* for help???“I put my bad leg on the step and pushed down, and it slid, not completely off the step, but it slid and I took my foot down because I felt something pop,”she said.
Miranda said she grabbed the mailbox and was already in tears.
“Then the bus driver said, ‘Are you going to get on the bus?’ And I said, ‘No. It hurts. It hurts.’ He shut the door and drove off and left me,” she said.
And I'm sure that's what her parents are thinking too.. that's why they went to the press..vraiblonde said:That's not what I read:
So you're saying that if a kid gets hurt at the bus stop, the driver should just leave them there and has no responsibility to try and help them or at least *call* for help???
If that were my kid, we'd be talking about a lawsuit.
You seem to be in denial that this is a more dangerous world than when you and I grew up. Again I use the Ownby kidnapping as an example. I know this has a "retard" (I really hate that word) effect on our kids but we have to keep them safe. I don't like it any more than you do but I would rather have a "retard" for kid than a dead one. just for the record I have a very NORMAL kid despite your "retard" charge.vraiblonde said:Are you for real? 11 years old is middle-school age. This is why kids are so retarded these days - because they're treated like retards. When I was 11, I walked to and from school unsupervised AND I caught the city bus and went downtown without a babysitter. Hell, I WAS a babysitter.
There is no "today's world" - it's the same world it's always been. We just hear about this stuff more because we have access to more information.