Student disciplined after stopping out-of-control school bus

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Saturday, March 15, 2008

(03-15) 12:26 PDT Seaside, Calif. (AP) --

A 15-year-old girl who stopped her out-of-control school bus was hit with a Saturday detention because she was supposed to be in class when the accident happened.

Marina High School student Amanda Rouse was on a bus with 40 elementary school students Wednesday morning when the driver fell out of her seat after a turn and hit her head.

Rouse jumped up and applied the brakes, bringing the bus to a halt after striking two parked cars. No one was injured.

But Rouse said she was punished because she wasn't supposed to be on the bus in the first place.

Rouse said she fell ill on the way to school, but instead of calling in sick, she asked the bus driver for a lift back to the bus yard before the accident happened. She must attend Saturday school as punishment for failing to call in sick that day.

"She is in trouble with school because she made the wrong decision," said Rouse's grandmother, Sally Correll. "But I can't help but believe that she was where God wanted her to be."

A spokesperson for the Monterey Peninsula Unified School District could not immediately be reached Saturday.
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Source: San Francisco Chronicle
 
attendance and calling in sick vs saving the lives of some 40 odd kids? lets think about this for a moment....attendance is more important :facepalm
 
These school officials are fail. She should be rewarded for what she did. She saved the lives of a bunch of children.
 
I don't think it's a bad punishment at all. It's not like they are going to kick her out, she did break a rule but she did save those people. This is just a slap on the wrists, since we don't know how long the detention is. For all we know the detention could only be an hour or two long, then again I have never served detention.
 
So they handed her a detention. I fail to see any logic in that. Sure she may not have called in sick, but she made it up by saving some lives. Honestly. :notrust
 
Hokage Naruto said:
I don't think it's a bad punishment at all. It's not like they are going to kick her out, she did break a rule but she did save those people. This is just a slap on the wrists, since we don't know how long the detention is. For all we know the detention could only be an hour or two long, then again I have never served detention.
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But still, who the fuck really cares if she wasn't supposed to be on the bus? She saved the lives of two classrooms full of kids. It wasn't like she was skipping school and decided she wanted to pull a Superman and lift the bus off the ground before it fell into an ocean because the bridge was broken :zaru She was sick, and didn't call in. Worse has happened, and besides, it paid off. Equivalent exchange, more or less, though I'd have given her a homework pass or something. :del
 
sundae said:
But still, who the fuck really cares if she wasn't supposed to be on the bus? She saved the lives of two classrooms full of kids. It wasn't like she was skipping school and decided she wanted to pull a Superman and lift the bus off the ground before it fell into an ocean because the bridge was broken :zaru She was sick, and didn't call in. Worse has happened, and besides, it paid off. Equivalent exchange, more or less, though I'd have given her a homework pass or something. :del
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From what I have learned through this horrid experience know as college, policy of a school will never and I mean never allow little things like this past. They feel they have to uphold the school code, so that if they make one promise to a person they have to uphold that to everyone. I am not agreeing with the school's actions but that's how the world works.

Sean Connery said:
all school districts care about is $$$$
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Exactly. Even a Christian private college, I lead a few of there workers to spill that. Stubborn old nuns.
 
Hokage Naruto said:
From what I have learned through this horrid experience know as college, policy of a school will never and I mean never allow little things like this past. They feel they have to uphold the school code, so that if they make one promise to a person they have to uphold that to everyone. I am not agreeing with the school's actions but that's how the world works.



Exactly. Even a Christian private college, I lead a few of there workers to spill that. Stubborn old nuns.
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beware of the yard sticks
 
Next time you decide to save people, consider! Are you supposed to be in that general area, if you aren't; just go with it and get yourself and forty or so other people.

I guess... if you weigh up everything.
Detention > Death o.o...
Still... how dumb.
 
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