Budget Cuts May Eliminate Bus Monitors l WPRI.com

Linda wrote:

<quoted text>So, what you are telling us in this forum is that while you crossed the kids on their stop, you leave the bus on with some other student inside the bus? Honestly, the is defenately not SAFE....and that is why is in California not Rhode Island.

THAT is dumber than a 1 handed clock

proud union firefighter wrote:

I do not have children, so the school bus monitor issue does not affect me personally, but anyone with common sense can see they are absolutely needed. In today's society, with the amount of traffic on the roads, the number of distracted drivers, and and the increased number of school children riding the bus, it's more important to have these bus monitors. In addition, these monitors are among the lowest paid workers in the state!!! I urge all parents with school age children (along with anyone else with common sense) to band together and let your voice be heard. The useless moron governor is putting children's lives at risk in order to save pennies!!! There is strength in numbers-contact your legislators, your local school committee, and your friends and neighbors-let your voice be heard!!! Send the buffoon governor a clear message that you care about children's safety, and you won't tolerate his antics.

Your not having kids is the best news I've had all day. That means that your idiotic union genetic structure will not continue......

Thank God!!!!!!

In your opinion, only union relatives are necessary anyway.

Smash the useless unions.
Unions suck...
State and municipal unions suck the most....

insertfoot wrote:

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THAT is dumber than a 1 handed clock

You and Cadaz always make the most funniest commets..

Simply removing bus monitors because of cost and without a strategy to improve school bus driver support would be grossly irresponsible of Rhode Island's state lawmakers.
A few years ago my community’s school bus drivers were given the authority to refuse transporting any child refusing to follow directions.
This school year and for the first time in twenty-some years the first bus driver was authorized to call parents and suspend students from the bus. Parents had instant access to the adult actually on the bus at the time of the event to answer any questions a parent might have, as well as instant bus driver knowledge of the bus citation's outcome.
Incredibly efficient.
Supported school bus driver authority does provide direct improvement in safety consciousness from even the worst behaved students, as well as from school authorities and parents. A few might continue some vain attempt to fight their bus driver's directions, go underground with their malbehavior, but those continuing to ride are more compliant, greatly reducing bus driver distraction and workplace stress levels.
Rhode Island lawmakers eliminating bus monitors for most school buses in itself is not a safety issue. Failure to also incorporate more bus driver authority on the school buses is a major safety violation, which creates too many 'dangerous conditions' on a daily basis.
Policy Development Sheet
www.geocities.com/2safeschools/resource/polic...

If the parents want the monitors, let the parents pay for them.
If the monitor's pay is so small, the parents, collectively, shouldn't have any trouble at all paying for it. After all, what is a couple of bucks a week for the safety of YOUR kids?

i am a bus monitor and this is bs. we are there to protect the children.the drivers are not allowed to get up from their seets so the monitors have alot of responsibilities.a few days ago their was a fight on the high school late bus and i was the one who had to seperate the two kids because the driver could not.the same goes for elementary school