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Bus drivers share perils, joys Few have seen the kind of attack that took place in Belleville last week, but all know the challenges and rewards that come with transporting children to school.

Publication: St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO)
Publication Date: 20-SEP-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Bus drivers share perils, joys Few have seen the kind of attack that took place in Belleville last week, but all know the challenges and rewards that come with transporting children to school.(Community)

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Byline: TODD C. FRANKEL tfrankel@post-dispatch.com > 314-340-8110

Chesterfield - The morning runs were over. A fleet of yellow school buses sat parked in neat rows. And inside the Parkway School District's big bus garage, dozens of bus drivers - drivers such as Miss Joan, Rick, Sara and Tony - milled about.

They all had seen the video. Seen the images that went viral last week of a student being punched repeatedly by other students on a bus across the river, in Belleville. It shocked them. Not because fights don't happen - they do, although this one stood out for its brutality - but because they saw it as bus drivers.

They heard the driver's shouted, ignored pleas for the students to stop as he tried to maintain control of his vehicle. They questioned how he responded, while wondering what they could have done differently.

"You can't just bail out in the middle of traffic," said Tony Kunce, 55, who has been driving a school...

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