The bullies on the bus

THE EDITOR, Sir:

AS THE saying goes, ‘children are our future,’ however, judging from my observations, the future looks very dark. I think it’s safe to say that children of this generation have little or no respect for themselves, much less others, especially the ones encountered in the afternoons travelling home from school.

I often avoid travelling to downtown Kingston or Half-Way-Tree during the hours of 2:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. due to the level of indecent and virago behaviour carried on with by the students.

A peaceful ride home suddenly turns into a circus as soon as they arrive on the buses.

Other passengers are forced to put up with their taunting and harassments not to mention the deafening explicit music and foul language that comes out of these children’s mouth. In my days, children had to be careful about what they said in the presence of adult, but now, it’s us who must be mindful of them. Passengers must sit quietly while juice bottles and paper book leaves are being tossed over their heads fearful of standing up to these bullies on the bus.

What also concerns me is the lack of reasoning ability. When calmly requested to turn their music volume down, it often turns into a quarrel or a fight between the students and other passengers and the bus driver.

These types of behaviours just leave me to question what the future of this island Jamaica will be like in the near future. It saddens me to see the children who are being groomed to someday run our country already driving it into the ground. TRISHAUNA ROSE trishauna17@hotmail.com Student of the Northern Caribbean University