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Our twelve-year-old sixth grade student is incredibly mature and takes life as it comes.
She takes the bus to and from school.
Today, after school, she sent me a text asking if she could take Grammy and me out for "coffee" at her favorite coffee shop, The Black Sheep. This is not particularly out of the ordinary but it's been awhile since she specifically asked to take us out.
Of course, I immediately said "yes" and we went to The Black Sheep coffee shop where her grandmother was already enjoying a late-afternoon coffee with a friend.
We asked our granddaughter how her day went; she said it was "a day." If you can believe it, she had three substitute teachers and one of the substitutes was a "pop-up" sub standing in for a long-term sub. The subs: biology, math, and reading. All of this one week before she has state achievement tests. LOL.
She mentioned in passing she also had a substitute bus driver for the morning route. Her regular bus driver is a psycho-path by all common definitions and so she was glad he was replaced today by a substitute bus driver. Having said that, apparently the substitute bus driver was even worse and she was very, very glad when he himself was replaced for the afternoon ride home. And that was it.
Tonight we got home to findaa very serious note from the school district to let us know that during the day the entire school district -- some six schools or so -- were locked down and put in high alert.
It turns out that somewhere in the city of Dallas, far from where we live and far from our school district, a large number of Dallas police squad cars descended on a private residence and took into custody a suspect involved in a domestic shooting. It was not clear whether a death was involved, but the suspect was in custody.
So, the incident involved an individual, a domestic dispute far from where we live and far from our school district. Why was our school district put in high alert and locked down?
It turns out that the suspect was the driver of our granddaughter's bus -- the substitute bus driver that replaced her regular psychopathic bus driver.
Our granddaughter was unaware of all that but she says that she was highly relieved when she got on the bus this afternoon bus it was not the substitute.
We have no idea what the morning bus driver -- the guy that was picked up as a "suspect" in a domestic situation -- did that caused our grandmother so much alarm during the morning drive. I would love to know if he threatened the kids with a machete or a gun. LOL.
Whether it was a machete or a gun, apparently it would not have mattered to our granddaughter. She takes life as it comes. LOL. At least when it comes to Dallas school bus drivers.
