Carmen Ghia

Resident Concerned Citizen

A 12-year-old Chula Vista, CA boy who spit out of a school bus window faces a misdemeanor battery charge because the spit went through the sun roof of a sport utility vehicle and landed on a man and his daughter. 

Michael Crowe tells KGTV in San Diego that he was spitting out a wad of gum because it didn’t taste good. Crowe was suspended from Eastlake Middle School for five days after the January incident.

He was later transferred to another school.

Police told the reporters their investigation shows Crowe was intentionally spitting at cars.

Michael’s mother, Lisa, is appealing the charge, saying there is no proof her son was deliberately aiming at anyone or anything.Chula Vista is about 10 miles south of San Diego.

Source: KGTV-TV,  www.10news.com

I don’t really know what it is about school buses that tend to bring out the worst in some kids. I recently saw a news report commenting on a ten minute video of group of middle schoolers heckling an elderly bus monitor to tears, calling her poor, fat and ugly (among other insulting and vulgar things).

Since the video has gotten national attention and raised a public outcry, the kids and some of their parents have come forward to apologize. The bus monitor, however, is wondering that had the incident not been recorded (and gone viral), if those same kids would have ever felt any remorse for what they did to her. 

It seems that when some middle schoolers feel they don’t have any authority watching, they don’t need to behave like responsible human beings. So, such crude behavior as verbal abuse and spitting out of bus windows suddenly becomes the norm.

I would like to think that when parents are made aware of their child’s delinquent behavior, they would try to instill some discipline and not appeal the charges because “there is no proof” that their child did anything wrong.

Apparently spitting out of bus windows is OK, regardless to if you’re aiming at anything.

We should not have to record every juvenile, naughty act that irresponsible children do and have it broadcasted on national news in order to get the kids and parents to realize that bullying or spitting on people is wrong and should not be tolerated. I mean, really!