Did I do the right or wrong thing? Vaping on school bus.

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User3627282646322244 · 07/10/2026 16:01

Designated school bus, not a public bus, my daughter who is in first year! I mentioned to her form tutor it’s known that some of the older children vape on the bus. Honestly, I thought I wouldn’t have been the first parent to bring it up to the school as they all know kids vape on the bus and I cannot imagine many parents would be happy about it.

this was a few days ago and today an incident occurred where the vapers thought a child was the one who ‘snitched’ and threatened him!

I now feel guilty as it could have been me talking to the school that escalated this, feeling sorry for the boy threatened, as he is a vulnerable child and an easy target.

but also how dd is upset worried they’ll find out it was me as a parent - she knew I had told the school and they will take it out on her!

what do I do now?!

I am hoping the mum of the boy threatened today will be straight to the school with it - she does seem to be on it straight away with everything.

do I stay quiet?

but honestly, vaping on the bus needs to stop anyway! There’s children as young as year 9 vaping, I don’t get it!

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NameChangeScot · 07/10/2026 17:25

I'd leave it tbh. Why get involved? Just tell her to sit up the front and stay away from them, sounds like she does that anyway. You can't spend the whole of secondary school reporting this stuff to the school.

GrannyAchingsShepherdsHut · 07/10/2026 18:08

Elieza · 07/10/2026 17:00

can you imagine the uproar when “little jimmy had to walk a mile home from school with his one leg because the bus was stopped due to boys up the back vaping”.

the cries of “why were parents not informed at the time. my daughter had to walk home in the dark” (come winter).

yeah the bus will not be stopped. however i wonder if it could be turned back to school and all children held there and parents asked to collect/search them or somethimg? No doubt howeber the perpetrators would escape before dad came to collect them….

No one had to walk home!

The bus stops, the driver says 'I'm not moving till you stop doing X'

It either stops, or other kids get pissed off at not getting home and en masse tell Jimmy to pack it in.

Peer pressure of 50 other kids telling him he's a wanker does the job.

If Jimmy keeps on being a dick in future then he gets banned from the bus altogether.

Weald56 · 08/10/2026 18:07

User3627282646322244 · 07/10/2026 16:40

I never went on a school bus but my partner did and said you’d often have staff or bus captains! I guess like a lot of things people are too afraid to say anything or intervene!

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As a former teacher you couldn't'; have paid me enough to travel on a bus with the pupils...and obviously any teacher doing this would not be able to teach so many lessons (or attend after school meetings/activities etc), so realistically they would have to be non-teachers employed specifically...and where would the money to pay them come from?

The only answer I can see is high quality CCTV on the buses, with schools being able to identify those vaping and punish them.

SemiRetiredLoveGoddeess · 08/10/2026 22:17

Hatty65 · 07/10/2026 16:26

Hopefully the other mother will speak to school, but actually it is a bus company issue. The driver should be monitoring this and stopping it.

Schools contract out transport and it will be whichever bus company runs that route that needs to deal with this.

In my experience Bus Drivers are very reluctant to intervene or even speak to passengers of any age on buses.

Vaping is clearly disgusting and unhealthy and should be banned.

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