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They fall asleep all the time. If their are other kids on the bus i will send them back to wake the student up. If its just me and the student then i will use my voice to wake them up. If that doesnt work then and little shake does the trick.
The most rewarding thing is when you truly help a student. I had a little boy who was in Kindergarten that was petrified to go to school. He had just moved to Las Vegas from Austrailia. He barely talked and was very shy. I talked to him every day and addressed him by name always. By the end of the year his mom gave me the sweetest note saying that he hated school but loved me and riding on my bus. That was the only reason he went to school. Its really about the kids. The ones that you can help or make an impact on their life make it all worth it.
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ALL THE TIME! I have heard it all. They like to tell me I'm fat. I always say "Tell me something I don't know"
Once I had just pulled up to the stop in the morning and one of the kids pointed to a boy across the street and said that he had a gun. The boy was in second grade. One of the dads at the bus stop already knew about it and walked over to the kid and grabbed his backpack and brought it to my window and opened it and there was a handgun in it. I called it into my dispatcher and she called the police. He had thought it was a toy and brought it to the bus stop. It wasn't loaded. The parents got in some trouble for it
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Well in general I am a very observant person. So I really do see everything they do in the mirror. Lots of times I've seen the elementary kids hitting, pushing, changing seats and they always deny it and I see them doing it.
Specifically one time a girl lied on me and said i stole her 200 dollars that her mom had given her for something at school. She went so far as to have her friend lie and say that the friend found it and gave it to me in an envelope. She actually took the money and bought clothes with it. I got called into the office and I gave my side of the story that I never was handed money, never saw money etc. Then the mom found her new clothes she bought and confronted the daughter. The daughter and friend fessed up and the mom came to the bus stop the next morning telling me the story and apologizing profusely. I was almost suspended without pay because of that girl!
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I heard a lot of the princes are gay..true?
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