Mozart on the Morning School Bus? (an original post)

Posted by StevenLeeDouglasWV on November 18, 2011
Posted in: Child Counseling, Child Development, Culture, Human Interest, Jefferson County Board of Education, Psychology, Shepherdstown, Shepherdstown Elementary School, Sociology. Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , . 1 Comment
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I participated in a discussion amongst several teachers and support professionals at SES this morning and the topic of discussion turned to the behaviors kids bring from home to school.

With today’s societal downturn, families are less happy than normal so the kids are unhappier as well. Since the kids cant “dump” their emotions at home (since in all likelihood that is where it comes from) they get rid of their bad emotions at school.

REGRESS

Until a couple of years ago I commuted from Shepherdstown to DC on a daily basis. I took the MARC Commuter train. My commute was 2 1/2 hours in each direction. People, that did not have such a long commute would ask me how I was able to handle it. What they were thinking was that it was as bad as having to drive to work each day, dealing with traffic and road rage from adults who (like their kids) took their anger from home and brought in on the road.

What I told them was that my commute by train gave me something that I never had when I had to drive to work or when I had a shorter commute when I lived in Maryland. What I am getting at is that my long commute gave me a chance to separate home from work and work from home. I was able to separate my emotions from one place to another. The train acted as a place where I could relax inbetween. It was also a place where hundreds of like minded commuters congregated 5 days a week and we all found a way to help each other get rid of any emotional baggage from the beginning of the commute so it would not interfere with what we had to do when we either got home or got to work.

So back to the kids…

I was thinking that kids need something to help them relax once they leave the house until they get to school. The commute is usually no more than 30 minutes in either direction but rather than being a place just to congregate with other kids and talk about sillyness for 30 minutes, perhaps that bus ride can become a place where kids can actually relax and calm down either from a stressful morning at home or a stressful situation they had at school that they want to put aside before getting home.

I would like to hear other people’s opinions on whether they think there could be a way of using the school buses as a stress releif tool for our kids. I know they have technology on buses with video these days and would imagine it could be possible for drivers to bring music on the buses as well.

Imagine one day one of your kids coming home and talking about Mozart!

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One comment on “Mozart on the Morning School Bus? (an original post)”

  1. Interesting thought. I sort of like this idea, but (if you read my post about buses) I also love the idea of schoolbus as places to sing and relax in a different way. I’ll have to think about this more.

    Lisa

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