Comments on: Psycho Bus Driver – My Worst Trip To Date http://lottierambleson.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/psycho-bus-driver-my-worst-trip-to-date/ It is impossible for a man to begin to learn what he thinks he knows. ~ Epictetus Mon, 04 Jan 2010 07:00:47 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: ideanna http://lottierambleson.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/psycho-bus-driver-my-worst-trip-to-date/#comment-85 ideanna Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:41:15 +0000 http://lottierambleson.wordpress.com/?p=24#comment-85 CONGRATULATIONS, Lottie! That's wonderful! My best to you and yours, and I will be watching for any new updates about your situation! CONGRATULATIONS, Lottie! That’s wonderful!

My best to you and yours, and I will be watching for any new updates about your situation!

]]> By: Lottie http://lottierambleson.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/psycho-bus-driver-my-worst-trip-to-date/#comment-84 Lottie Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:22:49 +0000 http://lottierambleson.wordpress.com/?p=24#comment-84 No need to apologize. I welcome comments and appreciate you sharing your experience. Please feel free to post comments here any time. I don't have an update on our situation right now. I got married last week, so I've been a bit preoccupied. ;) I'll definitely keep you posted as things progress! No need to apologize. I welcome comments and appreciate you sharing your experience. Please feel free to post comments here any time.

I don’t have an update on our situation right now. I got married last week, so I’ve been a bit preoccupied. ;)

I’ll definitely keep you posted as things progress!

]]> By: ideanna http://lottierambleson.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/psycho-bus-driver-my-worst-trip-to-date/#comment-83 ideanna Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:07:37 +0000 http://lottierambleson.wordpress.com/?p=24#comment-83 Thanks, Lottie. I appreciate your redacting my name! I am new to the blogging world, and I also did not mean to put all this information about our situation on your blog. Sorry. I plan on starting our own blog about our bad experience with "psycho drivers" and psycho school systems, too! Take care, and hope justice serves you better in the future. Do you have any new information about your situation? Thanks, Lottie. I appreciate your redacting my name! I am new to the blogging world, and I also did not mean to put all this information about our situation on your blog. Sorry. I plan on starting our own blog about our bad experience with “psycho drivers” and psycho school systems, too!

Take care, and hope justice serves you better in the future. Do you have any new information about your situation?

]]> By: Lottie http://lottierambleson.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/psycho-bus-driver-my-worst-trip-to-date/#comment-80 Lottie Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:19:02 +0000 http://lottierambleson.wordpress.com/?p=24#comment-80 Thanks for the update. I don't know if you had intended to leave your real name there, but I edited it out just in case, to protect your privacy. If you want me to put it back in, just let me know. Your wish is my command. :D Thanks for the update.

I don’t know if you had intended to leave your real name there, but I edited it out just in case, to protect your privacy. If you want me to put it back in, just let me know. Your wish is my command.

:D

]]> By: ideanna http://lottierambleson.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/psycho-bus-driver-my-worst-trip-to-date/#comment-79 ideanna Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:16:11 +0000 http://lottierambleson.wordpress.com/?p=24#comment-79 To All who might be interested. I just e-mailed the superintendent (again), letting her know I do not intend to drop this matter. Here is her nonsensical non-response, and gives you a glimpse into how protracted the process can be and evasive they can be when asked to simply do the right thing. In my case the right thing was to meet with us and explain their inaction, as well as impose some kind of sanction. I think their goal is to tire you out, until you're too exhausted to keep fighting. Mrs. X, Thank you for the email. In response to your previous correspondence I sent you written correspondence stating that Dr. Graham, the director of elementary education, would investigate the incidents as she does for all elementary school and she has done that and has sent you correspondence as well. I do appreciate your email and if you did not receive the previous written correspondence, we certainly can send additional copies as the issue has been addressed in the manner that administration feels is most appropriate. I have copied Dr. Graham on your email to ensure she is informed as the director of elementary education.. Tiffany Anderson, Ed.D. Superintendent To All who might be interested. I just e-mailed the superintendent (again), letting her know I do not intend to drop this matter. Here is her nonsensical non-response, and gives you a glimpse into how protracted the process can be and evasive they can be when asked to simply do the right thing. In my case the right thing was to meet with us and explain their inaction, as well as impose some kind of sanction. I think their goal is to tire you out, until you’re too exhausted to keep fighting.

Mrs. X,

Thank you for the email. In response to your previous correspondence I sent you written correspondence stating that Dr. Graham, the director of elementary education, would investigate the incidents as she does for all elementary school and she has done that and has sent you correspondence as well.

I do appreciate your email and if you did not receive the previous written correspondence, we certainly can send additional copies as the issue has been addressed in the manner that administration feels is most appropriate. I have copied Dr. Graham on your email to ensure she is informed as the director of elementary education..

Tiffany Anderson, Ed.D.
Superintendent

]]> By: ideanna http://lottierambleson.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/psycho-bus-driver-my-worst-trip-to-date/#comment-77 ideanna Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:31:11 +0000 http://lottierambleson.wordpress.com/?p=24#comment-77 Thank you, Lottie. Just knowing there are thoughtful, common-sense people "out there" is comforting. When these ticking time bombs get away with these kinds of things, one can lose all faith in our institutions; institutions most of us are taught, while growing up, to respect and trust. When, as you say, you learn their decisions may come down, cynically, to the cost to them, be it the cost and hassle of training/hiring another employee, or cost of employee retaliation or both, instead of the more rightful concern for potential legal liability for harm to the public or the loftier concern for public safety, it's awfully hard not to get cynical yourself. Good luck, Lottie. You, too, have my empathy for what you went through. Thank you, Lottie. Just knowing there are thoughtful, common-sense people “out there” is comforting. When these ticking time bombs get away with these kinds of things, one can lose all faith in our institutions; institutions most of us are taught, while growing up, to respect and trust. When, as you say, you learn their decisions may come down, cynically, to the cost to them, be it the cost and hassle of training/hiring another employee, or cost of employee retaliation or both, instead of the more rightful concern for potential legal liability for harm to the public or the loftier concern for public safety, it’s awfully hard not to get cynical yourself.

Good luck, Lottie. You, too, have my empathy for what you went through.

]]> By: Lottie http://lottierambleson.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/psycho-bus-driver-my-worst-trip-to-date/#comment-73 Lottie Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:57:36 +0000 http://lottierambleson.wordpress.com/?p=24#comment-73 Thanks for sharing your story.<blockquote>[...] the implied threat to kill my son should’ve been reason enough to take immediate and serious action.</blockquote>My thoughts, exactly!<blockquote>I feel for you, and do not understand the inactions of these various bodies and institutions.</blockquote>I don't understand it either. Surely public safety and the potential liability of keeping these kinds of people around outweigh the need to cover a route? Their thinking, whatever it may be, is truly beyond me. Thank you for your kind words. You have my support and sympathy as well. Thanks for sharing your story.
[...] the implied threat to kill my son should’ve been reason enough to take immediate and serious action.

My thoughts, exactly!

I feel for you, and do not understand the inactions of these various bodies and institutions.

I don’t understand it either. Surely public safety and the potential liability of keeping these kinds of people around outweigh the need to cover a route? Their thinking, whatever it may be, is truly beyond me.

Thank you for your kind words. You have my support and sympathy as well.

]]> By: ideanna http://lottierambleson.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/psycho-bus-driver-my-worst-trip-to-date/#comment-72 ideanna Fri, 07 Mar 2008 04:31:27 +0000 http://lottierambleson.wordpress.com/?p=24#comment-72 I am going through a somewhat similar experience. My then nine-year-old son was assaulted by his public school bus driver in September 2007, and I have: filed a police report; written to the superintendent twice; called and written to the transportation supervisor; called the magistrate (who thinks that a case like this might not even be prosecuted due to the ages of the children, even though the principal himself heard the driver shout to my son, "If he was a man I would have killed him!" The bus driver to my knowledge was neither suspended nor sanctioned in any meaningful way. In fact he was driving the bus the very next day! He has in fact gotten away with this, and this sends a horrible message to my son, to the driver himself and our community at large, not to mention degrades the competency and credibility of the Montgomery County, VA, school system, where this assault took place. I have omitted most of the details, but the implied threat to kill my son should've been reason enough to take immediate and serious action. I feel for you, and do not understand the inactions of these various bodies and institutions. You shouldn't waste your time feeling guilty (although it does show you to be the more mature party in your situation) for your very human reaction to his horrendous behavior. I am going through a somewhat similar experience. My then nine-year-old son was assaulted by his public school bus driver in September 2007, and I have: filed a police report; written to the superintendent twice; called and written to the transportation supervisor; called the magistrate (who thinks that a case like this might not even be prosecuted due to the ages of the children, even though the principal himself heard the driver shout to my son, “If he was a man I would have killed him!” The bus driver to my knowledge was neither suspended nor sanctioned in any meaningful way. In fact he was driving the bus the very next day! He has in fact gotten away with this, and this sends a horrible message to my son, to the driver himself and our community at large, not to mention degrades the competency and credibility of the Montgomery County, VA, school system, where this assault took place. I have omitted most of the details, but the implied threat to kill my son should’ve been reason enough to take immediate and serious action.

I feel for you, and do not understand the inactions of these various bodies and institutions. You shouldn’t waste your time feeling guilty (although it does show you to be the more mature party in your situation) for your very human reaction to his horrendous behavior.

]]> By: Lottie http://lottierambleson.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/psycho-bus-driver-my-worst-trip-to-date/#comment-40 Lottie Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:31:01 +0000 http://lottierambleson.wordpress.com/?p=24#comment-40 Mine will start middle school this year, so I know what you mean. Mine will start middle school this year, so I know what you mean.

]]> By: SkunnyAKASelena http://lottierambleson.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/psycho-bus-driver-my-worst-trip-to-date/#comment-39 SkunnyAKASelena Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:22:20 +0000 http://lottierambleson.wordpress.com/?p=24#comment-39 "Ah, the joys of parenting, huh?" I know! He's only eight and I have made so many mistakes already, I fear the teen years... “Ah, the joys of parenting, huh?”

I know! He’s only eight and I have made so many mistakes already, I fear the teen years…

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