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If they’re gonna fuck around, best they learn about the find out part now before they become adults

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If they were 15-18 year olds… then ok

Some were young as 5

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I can’t imagine the 5 year olds were a problem, I instantly assumed shitty teenagers who need straightened out. Kicking out small children is too much

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5 year olds can be monsters too, but you you probably shouldn’t leave literal children by the side of the road.

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To be

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Precisely because they’re 5 it’s important they learn early. Otherwise they’ll become… well, Australians. I hear they are one of the big sex slaves of the US, politics-wise.

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meh. modern kids have phones. they weren’t outside cell coverage. probably deserved it

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My stupid fucking brain read “Aussie” and immediately concluded that this must’ve happened in the ass crack middle of nowhere.

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For what it’s worth, it was the very outer suburban/rural edge of the city. The centre of Brisbane is 50min drive.

So probably not as post-apocalyptic wasteland as you imagined, just very low density housing and a lot of grasslands. Culturally barren, perhaps.

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Back in my day I had to walk through the outback barefoot with nothing but an apron.

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i would have dreamt of having nothing but an apron…i was walking barefoot on glass shards hunted by dingos and crocs…sometimes even dropbears while my dad shot at me with a shotgun…i would have been lucky with nothing but an apron…try to tell kids today and they wont believe you…

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This comments section makes me sick. Kids are fucking kids. They don’t “behave”— they’re just trying to enjoy life, they’re just reacting how they know, and they’re still learning. You don’t dump five-year-olds on the side of the road where they almost get hit by cars (that was part of the news article).

This also sounds like a great way to go to prison with a lot of parents extremely angry at you.

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If the little bastards can’t behave, they can walk

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You have a fundamental lack of understanding of child development. This is why we were abused as kids.

For so many goddamned reasons— especially if you don’t know anything about the kids— the word “behave” in this usage should not be allowed in adult usage. All it does is perpetuate harmful and false beliefs about children.

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I think you’re part of the reason kids are getting dumped on the side of the road lol

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Yeah this wasn’t how the bus driver should’ve behaved. Perhaps decline driving them or drop them off in a safer location. They were 5 years old for crying out loud.

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At the same time, there is clearly a need to show that actions have consequences and that if you break rules you’re punished for it. If the driver pulled into an abandoned parking lot and made them deboard in nice weather and stand there for 15 minutes before resuming, that would be fair. As adults it’s on us to guide children, and that means reinforcing good actions and discouraging bad actions – escalating to punishment if they keep acting out.

I agree with you that the person you’re responding to is being absurd. Punishment has to be carefully done. You need to create a situation that is undesirable but has absolutely no danger to their health nor wellbeing. Is that difficult? Yes. But that’s why we’re the adults.

The school should have worked with the driver much earlier to address the situation, before it escalated to this point. Even adults can only take so much, but it’s still on us to not lose control.

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A fucking 5 year old? What the fuck is wrong with you?

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0 points

It’s a joke. Chillax.

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Nah, fuck them kids.

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Yeah, fuck em!

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kids are much much more dangerous than adults.

kids just love to kill

kittens, puppies, just something to smack and smash flr a normal kid

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What the hell was your experience with children? Or are you a psychopath, and you’re just projecting it?

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6 points

That person wants to live in North Korea so make of that what you will.

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While not at the side of the road, where I’m from bus drivers have the right to throw anyone out at a bus station because there aren’t school buses per se. Although this is reserved for particularly rowdy individuals, I can’t imagine any bus driver emptying the entire bus. Definitely shitty & possibly dangerous thing to do.

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100% don’t do this. It’s wrong.

Separate conversation: folks we rely on don’t have the support or tools to do their jobs safely and sanely. Kids are violent and beyond “unruly”.

I’m not suggesting I have an answer, I’m not suggesting dumping them was appropriate. I’m not suggesting “things were better in the good old days”.

I am suggesting something has evolved in society, (many suggest norms degraded with COVID isolation, maybe. Discuss.) to make these provider’s jobs harder, and many are so close to snapping we as society should recognize it, and help them.

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they’re just trying to enjoy life

Maybe. A neighborhood bully went after me with a makeshift whip around that age. I lost my boot in the snow trying to run away fast enough. Most people are fine as you say. Some…are just broken.

You don’t dump five-year-olds on the side of the road

Strongly agree here. I don’t care what they were doing; they’re still kids in need of adult supervision.

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Yeah- I’ve been on busses where the driver got fed up but they just took us back to the school

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They will be fine. My bus driver did this often cause we were complete fuckheads.

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