Driving The Bus

I've seen a lot of conversation on Facebook and elsewhere about this story, so I decided to give Jeremy Wuitschick my Weekly Salute. In case you didn't hear about this, the seventh grader is being praised by local police and many others across the country for his heroic actions after his school bus driver fainted. According to Good Morning America, the bus driver started to "grasp for hair, waving his hands frantically in the air, and losing control of the bus." That's when Wuitschick stepped in. 

He jumped from his seat, took the wheel, and pulled the bus over on the side of the road, saving what a, possibly, horrific scene if nothing had been done. Wuitschick said he was "acting out of instinct" and one of the assistant superintendents of the school district said that students are "trained for emergency situations on the school bus, including how to shut them down."

This only begs the question: should all school districts have this sort of training? I think schools should do something like this because it could really save lives!