I recommend installing video cameras or adult monitors (in camouflage with pellet guns is probably pushing it) on buses first.
The sure fire way to get my teen up at 5 a.m. is the gentle reminder that his sister is leaving with the car, but "don't worry, you can catch the bus." I've never seen a 9th grader move faster.
There is a shortage of seats, the verbal abuse is absurd, and the other things that happen on the buses are abhorrent. Last year, my then Sophomore daughter (and in response, I) reported teenagers engaging in oral sex on the way home from school. Both children would prefer to take my car (which is as old and more cranky than I am).
I realize that this issue has been considered and I know videos are no answer, because who then will monitor the monitors, etc., but more money flung at a exterior security processes that for the most part will serve to do no more than falsely assuage fear and further complicate parenting—no way!
Just venting futilely,
Terina Dee
A parent clinging to the hope that there are only 3 1/2 years of high school left and just praying for an end to the social degradations of school before my grade-schooler gets there.
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