Kids fighting on the school bus and admin doing nothing
The school bus environment is extremely loud and chaotic, with students fighting, jumping seats, and making others feel unsafe. This causes many children to arrive at school in tears and highly anxious, leaving teachers feeling helpless because administrators completely ignore disciplinary referrals and refuse to hold disruptive students accountable.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
Found another way around this?
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- 1encouraging students to tell their parents what is happeningDid this help you?
- 2officially reporting safety issues regarding overcrowdingDid this help you?
- 3Get your own full-time classroom where you can set your own rules, routines, and boundariesDid this help you?
- 4Switch from substitute teaching to private secular schoolsDid this help you?
- 5Switch to a different grade level (e.g., move from middle school to high school)Did this help you?
- 6Go back to the corporate worldDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“This has been one of the worst experiences of my life. Students lack any kind of discipline or respect. Schools no longer hold students accountable and actually reward bad behavior with breaks and treats.”source ↗
“I feel like I'm witnessing the reason public education has been getting a bad reputation and there is nothing I can do about it.”source ↗
“half of my students arrive to school at 7 AM already in tears and full of anxiety and dysregulated bc the school bus is extremely loud and people fight and jump seats and make them feel unsafe.”source ↗
“referrals that they write are ignored bc admin doesn't give af.”source ↗
“Girl I’m an actual teacher and this shit SUCKS. Go back. Thats my honest advice lol”source ↗
“Their parents do not give a fuck sadly and most of them act as shitty as their kids do.”source ↗
“I also transitioned from corporate to teaching. Spent a year in a pubic charter, and it was awful. Very similar hi your experience.”source ↗
Where this came up
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