Debbie Coleman, now at Bonaire Middle School, Georgia, shares her bad driver story from her years at Warner Robins High School, Georgia. “At Six Flags, we instructed our students not to go back to the buses without a chaperone. A group of seniors broke that rule. As they approached the bus, they noticed our two drivers, along with three or four others, sitting outside our buses drinking from brown bags. Our seniors found me, confessed that they had gone to the bus, and told me what they had seen. A park security person called local law enforcement and we went together out to the buses.” Coleman concludes, “Seven bus drivers lost their licenses that day. I never did punish our students for disobeying.”
Lynne Bradley, now director of music ministries at the United Church of the Valley in Murrieta, California, after many years with high schools in La Grange, Illinois and Fallbrook, California, recalls a two bus adventure between Austria and Germany. In the process of giving instructions as her group reassembled after a shopping stop, she got on one bus while while her baggage and passport were on the other. “When we got to the border,” she says, “our other bus was nowhere to be seen. It took a different route, arriving about four hours later than we did.” Separated from her passport, ‘All I could think to do was pretend I was asleep. The guard who went through the bus didn’t disturb me.”
Sally Braswell Murphy, choral teacher at Oak Bay Secondary School in Victoria, British Columbia, recalls a nighttime bus adventure: “One of our two buses ran out of gas at night on the way from Jasper to Karnloops. When the bus drivers had expected to stop for dinner and gas, the administrator chose to have us drive on. We loaded all of the kids onto one bus and drove to the hotel while several people stayed with the other bus till help arrived. Legally this was a really bad choice by the administrator, as the bus driver could have lost his license for exceeding capacity limits.”
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