Kids Come First
My high school had two parking lots. One in the back for staff, which is also where the buses parked for pickup/drop off, and one in the front where the students who drove parked, as well as parent pickups. The school would stagger dismissal times by about 15 minutes.
Students who took the bus leave first and load up, then the walkers go. For some reason the school had four buses parked in the student lot, and would be leaving as kids were crossing the lot from the designated crossing. I was in the crosswalk one afternoon as a bus tried to leave the lot.
Mind you, there are maybe 30 other kids behind me and this impatient driver couldn’t wait and started going as we were in the way. I stopped directly in front of him, acting like I was digging in my bag, took a sip of water, and let the whole group behind me plus another 15 kids pass before moving.
When I stepped out of the way, the driver was yelling at me. I yelled back saying, “There are kids here, idiot”. My mom and a couple other parents saw the whole thing and complained to the district.
Next year, there were no more buses in the student lot. Story credit: Reddit / Novermber_Dawn_11