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Parents need to teach kids better behavior
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share thisTo the editor: Today I read your item about the bus driver from Southern Columbia. I do not agree with what happened, and God knows how any one of us would have reacted.
But your saying that the bus drivers owe the utmost respect to the students floors me. Have you ever driven alongside, or in back of one of these school buses? The kids are out of control, jumping up and down, screaming and making hand gestures at passing motorists. We cannot hold the driver responsible for what these students are doing while he or she is trying to drive these students safely to their school or home.
You state in your item that school administrators and bus companies and even the drivers themselves are responsible for what happens on the bus. I disagree. If, when at home, these students learn from a parent that they should respect their elders and people of authority, that in itself would be a big help and go a long way to correcting this problem.
It's not up to the teachers to do the job that a parent should; a teacher can not even discipline the students without a parent raising a fit.
I know that parents are all busy working, but there has to be a time in the day when they can talk to their children, and realize that it's their job to teach them to respect others.
It's time that the parents of this generation take responsibility for the things their children do when away from home. If the future of the world is left to this generation, I fear we are in big trouble. Remember, parents, they are your children, and therefore your responsibility. Good luck!
Lois McCormick
Mother of five, grandmother of 12, great-grandmother of five
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(father of 7 grandfather of 17 and great grandfather of 3)