Saying It In A Language That They Understand

[johnny.5]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ced3z8kx9eqo

but still lost his job

and where were the teachers during this ?

[newmodarmy]

I'm very surprised the teachers didn't intervene by coming to the driver and asking him to stop the threats of violence and  foul language and asking him to give them the microphone

[Neveracrossword]

NMA, the staff DID intervene, did try to get the driver to stop ranting, swearing etc - there's mention of that in the article.

[Gromit]

Just a bully, and has now been sacked.   
Clearly the wrong person for the job.

[newmodarmy]

Yes, I'm sure they'd say that and did say something eventually; but there's no sign/sound of it in the video. It should have been nipped in the bud almost immediately

[youngmafbog]

Clearly the teachers had no control.

The hysterical reaction of some of the parents is laughable, they and their kids need to grow a pair.  Whilst the coach driver should not have reacted in this way I am sure the kids have heard worse.

One of my relatives drives coaches, she wont do school trips, fed up of unruly behaviour and things being thrown at her whilst driving.  The teachers rarely intervene.

 

[barry1010]

I wouldn't drive school trip coaches either. The teachers let this escalate.  The driver is responsible if a child over 14 is not wearing a seat belt; it is also illegal to smoke on a coach. 

I blame all 7 teachers

 

[Tilly2]

I also blame the teachers. It should not have got that far. 

[barry1010]

If one of the pupils was smoking, the teacher should have phoned the parent and told them to collect the child at the next stop. Don't parents go on these trips too? 

[Paul22118]

I drove for a coach company for some years. They had a variety of daily school contract work which we termed 'school runs'.

I realise this driver's outburst was wrong BUT my God do I empathise. No one wanted to do the runs and sure enough after a few weeks drivers would leave to go and drive for a Company that had chosen not to take school contracts.

On one coach we had a security camera fitted.  There was a serious incident involving a nasty assault (bullying actually) and the school backed the driver and invalidated the child's bus pass.  When the parents, collectively heard this they formed an action comittee to have the driver removed.

At the meeting they were shown the video of the event.  You could have heard a pin drop.  One father stood up, looked at the head teeacher, and said 'we have been made to look like fools'. Meeting abandoned forthwith.

Even so that driver could stomach the 'run' no longer and left to join a school run free Company.

My method was simple.  Complete the run as quickly and safely as possible but always wore ear plugs........

[THECORBYLOON]

"The driver is responsible if a child over 14 is not wearing a seat belt"

The driver is responsible only for passengers who are under age fourteen.

[barry1010]

Children under 14 don't have to wear a seatbelt on a coach

[jourdain2]

When I left teaching, one of the reasons was that power had been drained from teachers (this contributed to the others).  A friend and colleague (all of 4'11" tall) was confronted by a large,very aggressive, 15-yr-old male pupil who decided that he wanted to leave the classroom early, with no cause given. 

She was between him and the door.  She refused to let him past.  The language that ensued from him can be imagined.  She wagged her finger in his face and told him to stop etc., etc.. He pushed her, violently, out of the way (a teaching assistant witnessed and confirmed all this) and the next morning------------- his parents came in to complain that their son's 'space' had been violated and he was very upset. 

The headmaster appeared in the staffroom the next morning to say that she had been disciplined and that he would not support any teacher who wagged a finger in a pupil's face!    

We could take a hint.  We are now 20 yrs on from that and teachers are hog-tied re. discipline. Little they could do other than what they did.

[THECORBYLOON]

BARRY, the site I read didn't make that clear but either way, the driver isn't responsible for those aged fourteen or over.

[Old_Geezer]

If the parents had sworn at their trouble maker kids ages beforehand then maybe the kids wouldn't have turned into the sort that needed swearing at by now.

[douglas9401]

Wouldn't like to be across the table from Gill in an arm-wrestling contest.