I'm so stressed!

[Carolyn]

I'm so upset and mad. Yesterday my son gets off the school bus and tells me that an older boy and two girls were cursing at him, teasing him and making believe they were choking him. They didn't actually touch him but still. He said he kept telling them to stop but of course they didn't. I asked him what the bus driver was doing while all this was going on and he said she was driving. Okay now if I was the bus driver I would have pulled over told everyone to sit down or else we're not going anywhere. The thing is the older kids sit in the back of the bus and the younger kids in the front. Once the bus starts emptying the older kids move up but they're not supposed to. Everyone has assigned seats.

I'm not sure what to do. I'm very protective of my kids and my first reaction was I was going to find out the stop the kid is on and confront his mother, call her a crack ho and ask her what kind of monster she's raising. Hubby didn't think this was a good idea. So now I don't know whether to talk to the bus driver this morning or wait and see if it happens again on the way home. My son is very sweet and sensitive unlike my 6 year old daughter who would probably tell you to go to hell. I think that's why I'm like this with him.

My neighbors son was picked on last year on the bus and now she picks them up from school. I refuse to do that. I feel like it's giving in and I pay ALOT of taxes where I live and I don't want my kids sheltered.

I haven't had much luck with bus drivers. Rewind to last year. My neighbors kids and my son are getting off the bus. They're pushing and shoving and the bus driver screams on the top his lungs at my son and not the other kids to stop and made him cry. Okay that put me over the edge. I told him if he has a problem to let me know and I'd take care of it, not to yell at a 6 year old. This is the edited version. I called the transportation dept. and they reassigned that bus driver. Okay now the first week of school this year we had a bus driver who for some reason didn't stop at our stop. She would just drive past. My daughter was screaming that she passed our stop but she couldn't here her over the radio she had blasting. I had to race to the next stop to get them off the bus. Also the ONE time she did stop my son wasn't on the bus. She "accidentely" left him at school and she didn't know where he was. I was almost in tears and 10 minutes later they found him on another bus. Okay needless to say after our confrontation say she's not driving my kids anymore.

What is wrong with people! I told my son if they do it to just ignore them and not tell them to stop since that's what they want. Don't give them the satisfaction of seeing you upset. BUT I'm just afraid if I don't do anything it will escalate and possibly become physical. My son is a green belt in karate and does very well but at this age it doesn't matter if someone is older and stronger than you.

I'm at my wits end and have a knot in my stomach today. Sorry this is so long.