Bus Driver Slaps Cheeky Kid....

[Spicerack]

I know who's side I'm on but I'll wait and see which way the thread goes.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-45590024/french-bus-driver-sl

[woofgang]

I know which side I am on too. I can see there being shock on both sides there but hitting is wrong.

[Baldric]

If what is said is true then I am on the Drivers side.

[Spicerack]

I agree, baldric. ;-)

[cassa333]

Actually I’m conflicted.

One the one hand the driver had no right to slap the boy and appears it was done ina fit of pique.

On the other some little boys deserve a good slap when they behave stupidly and put themselves in danger then laugh and swear about it .

[Mamyalynne]

The driver was obviously shocked by what had happened and lashed out in anger, shouldn't have done so of course.

[Theland]

Give him a medal!

[Cloverjo]

I could have easily guessed which side you were on Spicerack. No surprise about Baldric's view either.
You can't slap a child across the face, no matter how annoying they are. The driver should have sat in his bus, calmed down a bit and driven away.

[andy-hughes]

The driver would have been pumped with adrenaline after his near miss, and the idea that he was being laughed at when he was so angry and upset made him lash out in an instant of thoughtless behaviour that I am sure he no regrets.

I am not conflicted in the slightest.

Striking a child in the face is unforgivable from any adult in any circumstances, and the posts that applaud his actions make me feel very sad.

Children say and do stupid things, because they are children. We as adults cannot react to that with physical violence, it is not appropriate.

Slapping a child is not going to teach him that running in the road is stupid and dangerous, it is going to teach him that if you are and adult, and bigger and stronger, you can assault children, and that is acceptable.

Is that the lesson this child - and the other children witnessing this incident - should be learning?

I don't believe it is.

[anneasquith]

It's difficult to assess without seeing the full episode, but, he has no right to assault a child .

[Baldric]

Saint Andrew has spoken.

[Spicerack]

You're right, clover.

Can you imagine, if you were around in the 50/60s, telling your mother/father the bus driver just slapped you around the head. Lol.
Might have been different for girls, I've a pretty good idea what I'd have been in for.

[Zacs-Master]

At ,east he gave a valid opinion.

[andy-hughes]

Spicerack - // You're right, clover.

Can you imagine, if you were around in the 50/60s, telling your mother/father the bus driver just slapped you around the head. Lol.
Might have been different for girls, I've a pretty good idea what I'd have been in for. //

But we're not in the 50/60's - are we?

Attitudes, and hopefully adult behaviour, have moved on quite a way from those days, I for one would not like them to return.

[ummmm]

Agree with Jo 100%.

[andy-hughes]

Baldric - // Saint Andrew has spoken. //

Do I detect the faintest whiff of sarcasm?

Surely not!!!!

[Baldric]

Good grief Andy, as if Iwould.

[Spicerack]

The driver looks a bit Muslim. Does that make any difference?

[marval]

No he shouldn't have hit him. Spoken to him maybe.

[TheChair]

It's strange world we live in where kids are expected to be wrapped in cotton-wool, and allowed to get away with anything up to a certain age, and then they reach that age, and suddenly the can be tasered, jailed for years, or harshly punished in various other ways. Perhaps it would be kinder to them if some discipline was introduced into their lives at an earlier age, as it used to be when I was a kid. I'm with the bus driver.

[EDDIE51]

Yes, the bus driver was wrong,but he was also shocked and scared about what could have so easily have happened. It was in 'the heat of the moment' . The driver has my full sympathy under the circumstances.