Bus driver bugs Bush
Everyone else is talking about it, but just in case you haven’t heard: an Issaquah School District bus driver is struggling to get her job back after being fired by the school district for making an obscene gesture at President Bush when his motorcade passed her school bus full of kids. The simplified version of the story [#] goes like this: kids on the bus wave at Bush, Bush waves back, driver gives him the finger, Bush grumbles to Dave Reichert, Reichert calls the school district who investigates and then fires the driver.
I guess it’s hard to be surprised that the driver is protesting her firing - if she were mature enough to take responsibility for her actions and behave appropriately, she wouldn’t have been fired. The School District says, “If the bus driver had made the gesture to a driver who cut her off on a local road, we would have taken the same action,” and I believe them. It’s absolutely unacceptable on the job behavior for someone whose job is transporting children. (Actually, I consider it unacceptable behavior for anyone on the job.) I feel sorry for the union rep charged with the thankless task of arguing that the firing was unjustified.
People, here’s a simple tip: if you absolutely must flip someone the bird, please do it on your own time.
What you said is all true, but I really, honestly think that there should be an exception for flicking off Bush. He’s evil and I’m glad the kids got to see this show of jesture so they will learn that their opinion matters…. and that Bush is the worst president ever!
Also, Barbara Striesand (bad spelling, just got off work!)said on stage “Bush is the worst president ever” and told a fan to “…shut the fuck up” when he/she objected.
If he pisses off Barbara, then you know it’s bad!
I’m not coming close to comprehending how you think that the bus driver taught the kids anything other than “do something stupid, lose your job”.
Further more gesture was ultimately meaningless: 10,000 bus drivers could give Bush the middle finger and hey, guess what, IT WOULD CHANGE NOTHING.
One of the reasons that we have so many jerks in office is, in fact, because too many people confuse actions like flipping someone the bird or making snide comments as actually doing something. Guess what? It’s not.
So true.
Oh please. You guys are insane. If the driver had made a similar gesture to anyone else she would NOT have been fired. Why? Because the whining, clueless president wouldn’t have been there to tell on her. IF the kids even saw her gesture, what they learned is that the president is not a king and not a god, though he may think he is. Americans can strongly dislike him, and we can tell him that right to his face. Or at least we’re supposed to be able to.
The idea that this corrupted the children is absurd and laughable. They’re in middle school, I think they’re familiar with the use of the middle finger. The tired canard that exposing children to vulgarity has a negative effect on them needs to die. It does no harm to them — they already know.
Standing up for this woman losing her job over something so insignificant is shameful.
This is ludicrous. Any child who knows how to use the internet can look up photos of G.W.Bush and find images of him flipping off a camera. There were also NO child whitenesses. So there.
Also, luckily she got a job with another school district that realizes how amazingly retarded it was to fire a bus driver who no children on the bus saw flip of the president who started the “no child left behind” dealio that will lead said children into a torturous long fucked up education/life.
I have absolutely no problem with people flipping off this president.