Bus driver threatening children with certain death could have been handled better

Daytona Beach,FL
"Some students aboard a school bus in Volusia County said it was a terrifying ride home for them on Monday afternoon. The students said the driver stopped the bus on some railroad tracks along International Speedway Boulevard and refused to move until the children quieted down. During the incident, the Campbell Middle School students said a train approached them. "I saw the train coming, and I was looking up above, and I saw the rail guard coming down, so she started to back up," student Seth Pittell said."

"But if a train is coming, their life is in danger. You're putting their lives in danger, and you're yelling at them, and you won't back up the bus? She was threatening to get off the bus and have us just sit there," student Joseph Geist said. A parent of one of the children aboard the bus said he believes the incident could have been handled better."

Handled better? Like, how?

Listen. When I was a kid we had a bus driver named Herman. He was a big, intimidating black vietnam vet with a club foot. You want to quiet unruly kids, go get yourself a Herman. He didnt take shit off of anyone. Not that Herman would have had a problem with parking our bus on train tracks. It just never came to that.