See the redacted original video below.
By: Diane Benjamin
The video is awful but you can clearly see this school bus not stop at the stop sign. I have the original dashcam video but it has identifying information, I chose not use that version.
This happened yesterday where 6 Points Road meets Covell Road. The bus wasn’t close enough to read the name on the side.
I’m not surprised. They run stop signs and stop lights in their own vehicles. I see it all the time. In fact, I saw someone turn LEFT on red. Oh the irony. If we still actually had a justice system in Bloomington Normal McLean County, this bus driver would be promptly FIRED. Unfortunately there is no integrity or courage to do so.
“Integrity”? You’re obviously not aware of the new woke definition. It’s not about honesty or sacrifice or persistence. According to an official ISU poster some month back, it’s all about ‘being true to your personal ideals’, with zero mention of truth or consideration of others. So according to ISU, a serial rapist is a person of woke integrity. A mass murderer can be a person of woke integrity. BLM arsonsists and Hamas rapists. Adolph Hitler is probably the Epitome of woke integrity.
Overlooking blatant traffic violations barely registers on their radar.
If you call to report potentially dangerous a driving, you may get an answer. Sometimes they say will talk to the driver; sometimes they will say they’ll review the footage. It is hard to believe they do as the driving continues.
For example, a bus is not allowed to turn from the wrong lane. Additionally, it is not allowed to drive and keep its stop sign and red lights on to prevent traffic from going to make said illegal turns.
Bus driving can be a difficult job. Focusing on safety, security, etc. That does not excuse dangerous driving. Is it a lack of training? Is it a lack of oversight?
Otherwise unemployable relatives of Responsible Cities PAC members driving these buses. Many such cases. This is as far as their ‘clout’ reaches and our children pay the price as a result.
When I lived in Bloomington there were countless times while driving behind a school bus where I couldn’t keep up with it for fear of getting a speeding ticket. This was on Fort Jesse between Hershey and Veterans, a notorious speed trap for citizens. Buses going 40 (or more) in a 30 was the norm. It’s the same where I live now in TN. Neighbors frequently complain about people speeding but the school bus is the fastest vehicle in the neighborhood.
My sister was a school bus driver for 15 years, and an excellent one at that. It’s like any other job–if you work hard and have integrity you’ll do well. Plus, if there was a troublemaker on the bus, she radioed ahead and the Dean was at the curb waiting when the bus arrived.
Good for her. Problem is these days if she were to radio ahead, the Dean would be there waiting with soy milk and hypo-allergenic strore-bought cookies to ask if the trouble-maker was having a difficult day.
I was at a meeting where the Unit 5 director of Divisiveness, Enmity, and Indoctrination (DEI) explained that a big part of her job was to fight hidden biases, but the examples she cited all worked out to “replace biases I don’t like with biases I do like.” At Best a well-meaning but naive hypocrite, ‘at worst’ has numerous possibilities so I’ll let you pick your own.