I’ve written about the Test Valley School run before.

Today was equally bad! I had to make a balanced decision as to whether to stop the bus on a winding road with no lay by, just putting the hazzards on and blocking my side of the road, or continue driving with a near riot going on aboard the bus. Because so many kids were out of their seats and and running up and down the aisle I did pull up. I refused to move the bus until they were seated. Finally they did sit down but as soon as I pulled away they were up again! I shouted out to them that everything was being recorded on CCTV and would be shown to the school (this is the first time I’ve ever had a bus with CCTV on this run). At Kings Somborne the vast majority of kids left the bus, it was then that one of the more sensible girls came up to me and said that the cameras had been covered up with paper which had been stuck on with chewing gum!!! She gave me the name of the kid which had done this.

Back at Winchester bus station I went to see the Operations Manager to both tell him what had occured and to request that the CCTV recording was downloaded. He then read me a list of, I think, 8 children who take this bus and are banned from using the bus for 2 weeks after the Easter break (the parents and school needed to be informed in writing before the ban could take place). The kid who’d covered up the camera lenses was one of those on the banned list. The Ops Manager was confident that the camera will show him approaching and then covering the camera.

So in the hope that Google picks this up – TEST VALLEY SCHOOL, that’s TEST VALLEY SCHOOL, as in TEST VALLEY SCHOOL, Stockbridge. You are shamed again. Did I mention that the school is TEST VALLEY SCHOOL and it’s the worst in Hamshire for behaviour on a school bus. Maybe, TEST VALLEY SCHOOL needs to impart some discipline to its pupils.