That Upper Darby school bus video

I have no idea how much they pay their bus drivers and monitors in the Upper Darby School District.

I do know this: It's not enough.

A video popped up yesterday that you have to see to believe. It depicts some kids on an Upper Darby school bus.

I first learned of it the way I learn most things these days, someone emailed it to me. During the day, I got any number of tweets and Facebook posts alerting me to the video, which was posted to YouTube.

Don't look for the video here. We are not posting it. I don't know how we could. It is one string of expletives after another, including what appears to be a physical confrontation between the student and a monitor.

These aren't high school kids. I don't even think they're middle schoolers. These are elementary students.

Things got so bad on the bus ride that the driver was forced to pull over and call police. Haverford officers responded and talked to the youths involved.

I'm not quite sure how to describe what I saw and heard on that video. I know that as a society we have gotten coarser, and profanity seems to be more and more an accepted part of our vocabularies. But it still didn't prepare me to see the stream of filth coming from kids that couldn't be more than 7 or 8 years old. And directing it at adults.

The bus was transporting 11 students, seven from Upper Darby and four from Haverford, to an out-of-district approved school.

As word spread throughout the day, the school district eventually issued a statement. You can read our story here.

I'm not really sure what to say. I'm still trying to come to grips with what I saw on that video. I wonder how can something like that happen? How can a kid use that kind of language? How can he have that little respect for adults or any authority?

I suppose I'm going to be criticized for not posting the video on our website. I'm sure it would have drawn a lot of traffic.

It would have had to have been heavily edited. Once you take out all the F-bombs and other expletives, then shield the identity of those involved, there wouldn't be much left.

Only sadness. How can this happen? I wish someone could answer that question. I don't know if the video is still out there on You Tube. The school district actually asked the website to take it down. I don't blame them. I didn't watch the whole thing.

I saw more than enough.

And I'm still shaking my head.