School bus driver near Phoenix flips out...
It took him a week to "resign?"
They should have canned his sorry ass THAT DAY!
Driver locks kids on school bus, lectures them on behavior
By The Associated Press
Published: May 6, 2015, 7:36 pm | Updated: May 6, 2015, 7:46 pm
EL MIRAGE, Ariz. (AP) — A school bus driver has resigned from a suburban Phoenix district a week after he locked dozens of young students on the vehicle, berated them for their behavior and drove off while angry parents pounded on the door, demanding their children be let off.
Dysart Unified School District spokeswoman Polly Corsino confirmed the resignation Wednesday, but she didn’t release the driver’s name.
According to surveillance video from the bus, the driver prevented more than 30 elementary school students from exiting in El Mirage while he lectured them for hitting and yelling.
“The longer we stay here, the more your parents are going to get upset — and not at me,” he can be heard saying. “They’re going to be getting upset with you because it’s your fault you’re not getting off the bus.”
At least one upset parent can be heard knocking, to which the driver responds, “You break that door, you’re going to be buying a new one. Your kid will get off the bus when I’m done with them.”
Children can be heard crying for their parents to help them get off the bus. They scream and cry more as he drives off.
Parents immediately called 911. “He’s actually driving away with all our kids,” Adam Kautman told an emergency dispatcher, according to an audio recording. “One of the dads tried ripping the door open. And this guy’s screaming at the kids.”
El Mirage police met the bus at the school where the children were let off. Police said the incident is under investigation.
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You can take your insults home with you. ffs indeed. 
Kids are taught that using the emergency exits is for things like fire, rollover, crash, etc.
While they probably would have been justified in using emergency exits in this case (fleeing from false imprisonment, possibly kidnapping), they probably had not yet developed the judgement and maturity to evaluate the situation as such. Remember, they were being lectured by an authority figure, who (ostensibly) would not be doing something like that unless they were behaving badly.
Note that I do not intend to defend the bus driver here. I'm just pointing out the likely thought process of the kids: "We've been bad, the bus driver is mad and stopped to lecture us now. Parents outside, maybe they can help us? Wait a minute, we going back to school?"
Expecting the children to use emergency exits, especially en masse, is basically expecting them to act as adults (and even then, fleeing authority does not always yield favorable results...see recent cases of police shooting fleeing, unarmed "suspects"
. They probably don't know what false imprisonment is, and while they probably do know what kidnapping is, they probably feared that trying anything other than yelling for the parents outside to help them would make the situation worse.