Tape shows beating on bus of Belleville West student

[thundley4]

I knocked the shit out of a kid back in the 3rd grade on the bus.  He kept tripping every kid who got on the bus, and one day I got tired of it and decked him.

Best part about it was when the Principal found out why I did it, he congratulated me.   

That's far different from this video and others that we've seen.  Yours was more of a case of putting a bully in their place.

[USA4ME]

No doubt they have a bright future with ACORN.

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[rich_t]

I also rode a bus and I remember in the 5th or 6th grade this boy following me off at my stop and beating me up daily. My mother was friends with his mom and it still didn't stop his bullying

Ya should have kicked his ass.

[Chris_]

No doubt they have a bright future with ACORN.

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And files of considerable length with the Missouri Department of Corrections.

[Chris_]

I would have but I was a timid little girl who was afraid of her own shadow but karma is a bit*h found out that he was diagnosed last year with a brain tumor. Must have been all that rage he had growing up.

[IassaFTots]

Driving home today, listening to KRLD, I heard an interview with John Wiley Price.  He said, sometimes kids will be kids, and didn't feel it necessary to BRING RACE INTO THE EQUATION.  Any of all y'all from anywhere near DFW will know who JWP is. 

Just saying, if he says it ain't racist, it couldn't be. 

(for those of you not familiar with JWP or Dallas politics, the above is truly sarcasm.)

[djones520]

I would have but I was a timid little girl who was afraid of her own shadow but karma is a bit*h found out that he was diagnosed last year with a brain tumor. Must have been all that rage he had growing up.

Karma is funny like that.  I had two people who used to bully me in Junior High that I ran into later in life.  One was working as a gas station attendant, and the other had gotten shitcanned out of the Air Force.  Both made me feel good.   

[Chris_]

I am from the school of what comes around goes around over and over again

[SilverOrchid]

I HATED the bus. I was picked on so bad in middle school, I chose to walk the mile to school.  I also got sexually assaulted by this creep on the bus once. Oh yes, we took him to court and pressed charges. I remember the dad apologizing to me for his a**hole son's behavior. Last I heard, he was in prison for rape, who knew? 

So, yeah, my daughters will NOT be riding the bus ever.

[Airwolf]

Its never to early to teach your kids that defending themselves is ok. Get them to a class of any kind so they can.

[Ptarmigan]

Kids should learn to defend themselves, which is a good thin. I rode the school bus in elementary. It was not that bad. Middle school was the problem. Bullies are cowards and many are destined to be screwed up. Bullies are at risk for crime and drug abuse. Well gees, not surprised. Some bullies turn out to be Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Osama bin Laden, Eric Harris/Dylan Klebold, and Lori Drew, all who are scum of humanity.

[Thor]

Growing up in Texas, one couldn't ride the bus if they lived within a two mile radius of the school. I only got to ride the bus for one year, 1st grade. I don't remember it being all that bad. The rest of the time I was on my own. The only time it wasn't a PITA was Jr. High. I only lived two blocks from the school. All of the other years, I was 1½ miles or so.

[PatriotGame]

Kid needs to learn how to fight. Especially, as a white in a primarily black school district. I'm surprised the boy didn't start yelling "Obama, bitch!" or someother BS.

**** that. Teach him how to use a gun, when to use a gun, GIVE him a gun then send him on his way. The time for being nice and "tolerant" is over!

[JohnnyReb]

I drove a school bus back school year 1962-63. I was 16 years old and in my senior year of high school. Of course way back then all the students were white and not much trouble. If we had a problem like this, we were allowed to break it up, put the students off the bus and call the highway patrol. Also, the offending students wouldn't have been allowed to ride the bus anymore that school year. Simple, nothing to it.

Shortly after they desegregated the schools all those student bus drivers were out of a job and the old rules went out the window. The lawyers would have had a field day if they had kept student drivers and the old rules.

My wife refuses to allow my son to ride the bus due to the problems she suffered at the hands of black students back in her day. The driver was black and allowed the black kids to rule the bus. So I pay taxes to feed, transport and educate 40% of the student population while I pay for my sons lunch and run a limo service twice a day.

Lets see, 14 miles, roundtrip, twice a day for going on the tenth year.....times a couple hundred more white parents doing the same....hmmmmm.....damn that's a lot of oil just in this one school district.....and since Obama came to power, it's getting worse.... "We haz's us'es a prez-e-dent now. Wez can do as wez plezzes now and day hant nutt'n you's can do 'bout it.", quote from a fellow black student of my son the day after the 2008 election.

[Chris_]

I drove a school bus back school year 1962-63. I was 16 years old and in my senior year of high school. Of course way back then all the students were white and not much trouble. If we had a problem like this, we were allowed to break it up, put the students off the bus and call the highway patrol. Also, the offending students wouldn't have been allowed to ride the bus anymore that school year. Simple, nothing to it.

Shortly after they desegregated the schools all those student bus drivers were out of a job and the old rules went out the window. The lawyers would have had a field day if they had kept student drivers and the old rules.

My wife refuses to allow my son to ride the bus due to the problems she suffered at the hands of black students back in her day. The driver was black and allowed the black kids to rule the bus. So I pay taxes to feed, transport and educate 40% of the student population while I pay for my sons lunch and run a limo service twice a day.

Lets see, 14 miles, roundtrip, twice a day for going on the tenth year.....times a couple hundred more white parents doing the same....hmmmmm.....damn that's a lot of oil just in this one school district.....and since Obama came to power, it's getting worse.... "We haz's us'es a prez-e-dent now. Wez can do as wez plezzes now and day hant nutt'n you's can do 'bout it.", quote from a fellow black student of my son the day after the 2008 election.

There you go.........speaking the truth will get you labelled a racist.........

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[Ptarmigan]

I drove a school bus back school year 1962-63. I was 16 years old and in my senior year of high school. Of course way back then all the students were white and not much trouble. If we had a problem like this, we were allowed to break it up, put the students off the bus and call the highway patrol. Also, the offending students wouldn't have been allowed to ride the bus anymore that school year. Simple, nothing to it.

Shortly after they desegregated the schools all those student bus drivers were out of a job and the old rules went out the window. The lawyers would have had a field day if they had kept student drivers and the old rules.

My wife refuses to allow my son to ride the bus due to the problems she suffered at the hands of black students back in her day. The driver was black and allowed the black kids to rule the bus. So I pay taxes to feed, transport and educate 40% of the student population while I pay for my sons lunch and run a limo service twice a day.

Lets see, 14 miles, roundtrip, twice a day for going on the tenth year.....times a couple hundred more white parents doing the same....hmmmmm.....damn that's a lot of oil just in this one school district.....and since Obama came to power, it's getting worse.... "We haz's us'es a prez-e-dent now. Wez can do as wez plezzes now and day hant nutt'n you's can do 'bout it.", quote from a fellow black student of my son the day after the 2008 election.

I never seen a 16 year old drive a school bus when I was a kid. Must of been a common sight back than.

[JohnnyReb]

I never seen a 16 year old drive a school bus when I was a kid. Must of been a common sight back than.

All the school bus drivers in SC were students back then. My route was 54 miles long, one way, longest one in the school district. In my county we all got the state paid $35 a month for driving the buses and a few dollars extra if we hauled the band or football team somewhere. In the next county over, the drivers got the state paid $35 plus $40 from their county for a total of $75 a month.

Believe it or not, the student drivers had a lower rate of accidents than the older drivers that replaced them.

....and there was one other benefit. If you had bus driver training, you got a 10% reduction on your car insurance.