8/18/08 Routes 32 gallons

AM
SHES - Today was Austins first morning riding the bus, he did fine. Good ride overall. Head count 38. AAS @ 7:15am, didn't get unloaded until 7:20....no stickers on the kiddos :)
BSMS - so many students, wow! we have no room! Alex (boy) absolutely did not want to sit with Colton, he asked me to move Alex (girl) so that he could sit in that seat, I did, but I made him go to the back becuase we needed the seat for girls. He sat with Wesley. I let Ishama and Ameisha and Whitney and Taylor sit with each other and with Aaliyah Glenn...Ishama tattled on Whitney said she was trying to start something, so I talked to Whitney when we go tp school, I asked her if they were picking on her or if she was starting stuff, she wasn't forth coming with any info. She would not talk. Aaliyah Glenn and Ameisha were picking at each other, HTS. Antwan gets 2 gold slips, one for offering to sit with someone unpleasant and one for letting the ladies go first. Dominique gets a GS for offering to sit with someone unpleasant. Head count 64. AAS 8:12.

PM
SHES - Austin wouldn't sit down, I told him several times and one time he even told me "no" I explained to him that if he couldn't sit in the seat correctly, he wouldn't ride my bus. Breanu needed to be reminded of how to sit in the seat correctly also. There was not an adult out at Nick, Mariah's, Kaitlyn and Nate's house.....I explained to them that I WOULD NOT let them off until I saw a grown-up, the adult there sent a toddler out onto the porch, but Jasmine went to the door and told the adult that was there that they would have to come to the door or out on the porch. Ladajah sat in the 1st seat with Lacey again, she asked how long she would have to sit in the first seat and I told her until she learned not to eat or drink on the bus, she said that she didn't have any food in her bag or drink, I tried to explain to her that even if she did have food, she couldn't eat it, its her first year with me, even though she is in the 3rd grade, she has to learn what I require, so she is still learning :) There was nobody out at Sully's house, his mother is usually out with his baby sister, but no one was out, Sully said his uncle was home, but I didn't drop him. I brought him back by home after I had delivered everyone else, but still no one, so I returned him to SHES.
BSMS - My loud girls (Ishama, Ameisha, Whitney, LaAsia, Aaliyah Glenn) were just fine this afternoon, not too loud at all. I have a good bunch, we just don't have enough room :( Head count 51.