Originally Posted by mayonaise
dude, it's just a kid. a 250lb linebacker or an otherwise full-grown adult would incite a different response. i guess this isn't true for you, but i hope that if i were in that kind of situation, i'd be able to have a little restraint and not just blindly start a fight. if it can be avoided (and this could have been avoided), that's already MUCH better than possibly gaining the upper hand by striking first. there's plenty of other things the bus driver could have done. beating the shit out of the kid was uncalled for
again, I'm not stating that the bus driver had no choice. I thought I was clear that both parties made haste decisions on their behavior?? I don't know where you went to school, but at my old high school and junior high... there have been quite a few cases where the students have attacked the teachers. I remember a fight broke out between two girls and the vice principal (female) went to break it up. One of the girls punched her and knocked her down. I'm not 100% sure, but I heard she either broke the principal's nose or almost did.
at the time, I was on the other side of the building as it happened.