Hold On, What?

Eff these guys

I was never bullied as a child. Call it luck, call it whatever you want. (I’ll call it “I was the coolest kid I knew”) And I didn’t really see too much of it going on around me, so when I read stories like this, I want to board that bus like Jack bauer on very little sleep and an assault rifle dangling over my shoulder.

Robert Coomber’s five-year-old son, Ryan, lost part of his left leg in a lawnmower accident two years ago. His left leg was amputated below the knee, and he wears a prosthetic limb. Ryan used to take the school bus from his home in Willow Bunch, Sask., to his junior kindergarten in Assiniboia, about 40 kilometres away. But bullying and taunting on the bus have made that ride, which takes about an hour on the bus, impossible. “A lot of kids beat me up. Lots of big kids,” Ryan said.

WTF. And this is in Saskatchewan, Canada. I thought our neighbors to the north were more socially civilized and less violent. Saskatchewan? More like Sasquatch-ewan! Ehh? EHHHH?

Kids on the bus have stolen Ryan’s backpack, Coomber said, and one student tried to pull off his prosthetic leg. Coomber spoke with the parents of the kids involved and thought the issue was resolved — until Ryan was punched by a 13-year-old on the bus on May 4, leaving him with a black eye. “He was punched in the eye by one of the biggest kids on the bus,” Ryan’s dad said.

The kid has one leg and he is FIVE! What kind of savages are on this bus? Is he on the bus that transported the prisoners in Con-Air?

“I asked for that child to be disciplined,” the father said. “I asked for him to be suspended from school [to] teach him a lesson because there’s a zero tolerance for bullying. “[But instead] we were told Ryan will no longer be on the bus, that it’s not safe for him or my daughter and that we have to drive them the round trip.”

Bravo, School District. You really nipped this one in the bud.