Students kicked off Bus for speaking English.

**Southie** · 28 Sep 07,, 23:02

Originally Posted by gunnut

Aha you copied the image and saved it on a word document rather than as a jpg file.

That was the only way I could get the picture. If I had done it at home I would have been able to.

**gunnut** · 28 Sep 07,, 23:09

Originally Posted by Southie

That was the only way I could get the picture. If I had done it at home I would have been able to.

That's weird. If you float your cursor over the picture a little box with 4 buttons should appear on the upper left hand corner of that picture. Hit the little disc symbol and you can save that picture. It will work even if "right clicking" on the picture method is disabled by java script used by some sites.

**Southie** · 28 Sep 07,, 23:18

Originally Posted by gunnut

That's weird. If you float your cursor over the picture a little box with 4 buttons should appear on the upper left hand corner of that picture. Hit the little disc symbol and you can save that picture. It will work even if "right clicking" on the picture method is disabled by java script used by some sites.

Could have been operator error at the time! I was trying to work and have fun at the same time!

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**Dwarven Pirate** · 29 Sep 07,, 04:42

Originally Posted by SnowLeopard

What I think it comes down to, though, is an outrageous headline, especially in these immigration times, taken somewhat out of context. Which, when you think about it, is rather outrageous. I mean, isn't that what most people say that if you go to live in a country, you should learn the language? Isn't that what the school district is trying to achieve here?

Twisted headline to 'create' a 'story'. They allude to a standing policy of each student riding the bus which serves his particular school, and that they've now decided to enforce this policy. So, the bus driver is told not to pick up kids that dont go to his school. His route likely goes past the school the kids attend and he's been dropping them off up til now, or something like that.

These kids are 12 and under. The bus driver may or may not have atempted to explain to them the reason he couldn't take them anymore, and they may or may not have understood him correctly. Confusion may have led him to just say "This bus is for people that dont speak english! Now sit down!"

You can see in the official's response that they dont apologize for the policy and that they aren't changing anything. They simply apologize for stranding the kids at school.

I dont know what they are actually trying to achieve by this. Could be some safety issue, or saving gas, or time, or maybe the bus drivers have been complaining or who knows. All in all, no big deal.

**Dwarven Pirate** · 29 Sep 07,, 04:48

EDIT: I work with a guy who speaks about as much english as I speak spanish, and thats next to nothing. I find it amusing. He will go on and on in spanish to me, laughing and joking, me not understanding a word of it, nor him to my replies. He said he doesn't care about learning english - he works in the US but lives in Mexico, expecting to retire there. Funny story - he got pulled over by the local cops a while ago, and they found out he had no driver's license, just a state ID card. Turns out he got that instead of a driver's license due to language problems. But everyone knows everyone here, and he'd been driving around here for seven years so they just laughed and told him to go get one the next day and let him drive home.