coach driver had to swear at and threaten school children to make them put seat belts on

Language was wrong but tone was absolutely what was needed.

No adult/school staff intervention at all during that video! Kids clearly out of control.
Also kids ages 11-18 would not be surprised to hear or say what the driver said to them. It is really not that shocking compared to how kids 11-18 speak to each other nowadays.
i Am support staff at a secondary school and the language is shocking to me, yet considered banter, when I try to talk about it with them.
it’s obviously not professional at all, punching in the face crossed the line but the rest .. meh… whats the driver meant to do. Play sit and wait by the roadside for unruly kids to behave. That is putting everyone at risk. If your car breaks down by the roadside you’re meant to get out for safety.
I feel sorry for him actually,

You are being unreasonable. Children must be pampered and treated like little princes and and princesses. They should be rude, entitled, lack any respect for others and being allowed to do whatever they like. And never ever should they be told their behaviour is wrong. There should be no discipline whatsoever.

There were apparently 7 member of staff on the bus. I think the school has serious questions to answer regarding how the whole thing was managed.

Obviously what he did is completely unacceptable. You can't threaten to punch a child (or an adult).

I'd have been totally supportive of him if he'd said "this behaviour is unsafe and I will not drive in unsafe conditions, so I'm parking here and the parents will have to be called".

Man alive, I wouldn’t do his job. It’s not worth it.
I don’t know what the kids and the teachers were doing but how did it get to that point?
Their parents should be deeply ashamed.

I would be interested to know how old the “child “ was .
the school goes up to 18 which is an adult.
( not condoning the driver’s behaviour)

Poor bloke sounds like he was at the end of his tether, and it doesn't say he was sacked the next day, just that it was his last day on the job, which is unsurprising if those are the sort of teenagers he has to put up with.

But what the actual fuck were the teachers doing??

Why were pupils SMOKING and refusing to put their seat belts on??

He should've pulled the coach over and refused to move, but I hope the teachers are also thoroughly investigated.

Then he shouldn't be disciplining them. Pull up and get off. Shout at the ADULTS and tell them you're calling it in and refusing to move until they remove the trouble makers or make them behave. Is it just threats that ok or would you be cool if he'd slapped one of them around a bit, shown him who's boss, put him in his place?

I'd like to know what the drivers working pattern had been like up until that point. How many school runs had he done with children from this school, how many times he had told his boss, and what steps they had put in place to mitigate this kind of incident from happening.

I would imagine that the driver was under some stress, felt unsupported and behaved badly under provocation. I would suspect that he walked out on the job after this due to feeling unsupported by his management team.

Yes, he behaved badly in the moment, that doesn't mean he should be vilified.
And why the fuck were the teachers allowing it to escalate to this point?

Bit weird if the teachers weren't doing anything though.
The driver would probably have been justified to stop the bus and refuse to continue the journey until behaviour was modified.

Not the point but our school buses (only 5/6 years ago for me) never had seatbelts and I could never understand why

Because NO ONE should be allowed to threaten to fucking punch up kids. Not even yours to your own. If that's what you do I hope they have a safe adult to talk to.

I don't believe the threats of violence would help his situation with the majority of teens. To many this would be a red rag to a bull, if a teen said 'go on then' as many would have then what? Punch them as you threatened to do and go to prison as a child abuser? The coach driver was rightly sacked, he doesn't have the emotional intelligence to manage his temper and reason with children. This man shouldn't work with children. I'm sure many of the kids on the bus would have been behaving and felt trapped/unsafe in the situation.

Do you genuinely regard an adult saying "I'll punch you in the fucking mouth" to a child as some kind of refreshingly plain speaking?

You can condone the driver for using the threat of violence but also the parents reaction.

One of the parents said:

“The teachers' job is to keep our children safe and to manage them on the coach,” she said.
"And on this occasion, they failed our children.

No, it’s you the parent that has also failed

My dc use the bus and I was contacted by the school to say that one of my dc was moving around on the bus while moving. This is clearly dangerous and were told off. The school contacted me to tell me so.
It was my responsibility to tell my dc, how dangerous it was and that it cannot be down to the bus driver to make sure you behave, that you are respresenting the school when in uniform and that behaviour is unacceptable. It was me that was driving my dc to school for the week, not allowing them to be on the bus with their siblings and friends. An apology note was written to the school and to the bus driver by my dc.

Dc hasn’t misbehaved on the bus again.

I had a job to do as a parent. It was my responsibility that my dc behaves themselves whilst on the bus. The buck stopped with me.

Was the driver wrong? Yes.
Should he be a bus driver work with kids? No.
Have these parents failed their children by not highlighting the children’s bad behaviour and making the focus solely the driver? Yes.
Have the teachers failed their pupils? Yes

So thats the kids, parents, teachers and driver whose behaviour has all fallen short.

Why would you have just parked up and refused to leave if you think the driver did what was needed and that they got off lightly?

Why wouldn't you emulate his "excellent" behaviour and shout, swear and threaten the kids?

It makes no sense that you think the guy is a modern day hero, showing the kids what they deserved but you'd have not done it yourself.

This.

why wasn’t the teachers doing their jobs, or at least stopping his ranting.

Do you regularly threaten to fucking punch you kids if they misbehave? Is that how you think kids should be parented?

My only question is where's the teachers? There were seven on the coach and none of them can be heard tackling the driver

Nothing is acceptable about his behaviour, unhinged is what it is. That'd be gross misconduct in any public facing role.

Too much. Just park up. If they don't settle put them off the bus and bar them from using it next term.

Poor coach driver - no wonder he lost his rag!!

The driver lost his job, which was inevitable. I suspect he'd have lost his job if he'd refused to drive as well.

I'm very surprised that the school want this in the media as it reflects appallingly on them.