My kids have been being really naughty on the school bus. Oh, I hear you say, tut tut, cheeky
kids! Surely they cannot be that
bad. Well, one of them spat on a little
kindergardener a week ago- that's how bad we are talking! The context is that they were playing 'spit
tag' which I guess makes it slightly less disgusting and feral but only
slightly. They have been loud and
shouting, smacking each other with their hats, changing seats and generally
making the bus driver crazy.
Last year we had two separate complaints from the bus
driver about them. This year, after the
spitting we had one child's bus pass confiscated for the day. We tried explaining to the kids how valuable
and important the transportation was to them, but it was apparently
ineffective. I know this because on
Friday I was asked onto the bus by the bus driver and had to nod apologetically
while he explained that he had had enough of my children.
Sheez! What are we
to do? We have warned, threatened,
grounded... What to do? It was obvious
to both of us. The only thing we could
do was make them walk to school once.
It's a full 10kms from our house to their school. Far!
The walk would be difficult, tiring, uncomfortable and most of all
MEMORABLE!
So today I got on my runners, we woke the kids at 6:30am
and were walking as the sun was coming up. They began the trek positively. Oh, isn't that lovely? We wouldn't have seen that if we hadn't
walked. Oh I'm not tired! This is great, actually... In an hour's time they
were puffed, sweaty, over it and HALFWAY!
I showed them on my phone gps that they had only just gotten halfway to
the school and it was 10 minutes to class time.
Our support vehicle arrived in time to whisk us to school with some
(hopefully) changed opinions about the value and importance of their bus driver
in their lives! Mean?? Possibly. Effective?? Let's hope so!
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