School bus driver bans little girl from reading

[PhasmaFelis]

@ben_ehlers

Is it actually consistently enforced? Especially since the school basically said that bus drivers get to make up the rules? (I read that part, too!) the fact of the matter is that the article has nothing to say about the quality of the relationships between the driver, the child, the parents, or the school administration.

I know enough about conflict management to know that things are rarely so simple, and I find it hard to believe that on a bus with 40-odd children, she is somehow the only one getting hammered for this.

As you say, that information isn’t in the article, but I don’t think we know enough to assume that this girl is being singled out. “Kid told to put his Game Boy away” doesn’t make a punchy news article. There could easily be other kids who were told to put books away whose parents didn’t have the energy, luck, or care to make a fuss and get picked up by the news.

[SmashMartian]

Can’t see what the problem is here, unless she’s been banned from the entire county of Berkshire.

[daneel]

Badumn-tish!

Went to uni there, have lots of family in the area.

Always read that word that way.

[teapot]

Solution: Little girl gets the entirety of Catcher in the Rye tattooed on her body??

[anon67050589]

Fahrenheit 451 was the book that came to mind for me.