The Magic School Bus

There he was, orange hair, black square glasses, sitting in his chair with an “I’m the best” look on his face. I really do not like Arnold. Arnold looked alot like the boy from the Magic School Bus. I try just as hard as he does, maybe even harder and he always ends up with the best overall grade in the class. The last day of every year in elementary school, the students were handed their yearly report cards. My grades did not interest me at all as a 2nd grader. What mattered to me most was not my grades, but my reading level. Every year all of the students take a reading test a week before school ends. The test determined the reading grade level for each student. As I was handed the pasty white envelope containing the single most important…

front of the television watching cartoons. Cartoons, a place where anything was possible, even a flying school bus. Growing up my memories add my sister sitting there next to me, the screen showing talking ponies instead of the old school bus. Even as the cartoon changed, it still had its own message to present, whether it be about the solar system or the magic behind friendship. In Nick Flynn’s lyric poem “Cartoon Physics, part 1” he delves into the connection of the innocence of a child and…

As I walked out of my car and up to the school bus I thought of all the memories on the bus. I stepped up the stairs and saw Rodney mopey as ever sitting in the bus driver's seat. As I walked back among all the sad mopey faces I started to smell all the body odor. I sat down next to a random kid. I rode on the bus to school it was silent because everyone was so tired. Once we got there I walked into school said hi to everybody and waited for the bell to ring. Then I headed for the first time to…

Introduction At the tender age of 13, a teenager named Kevin Mitnick used the art of Social engineering- manipulating people to give up confidential information- and Dumpster Diving - the practice of looting dumpsters to find discarded items that have value – to bypass a punch card information system that was used in the Los Angeles public transport system. He convinced one of the many drivers of a bus to tell him where he could purchase his own ticket for what he claimed was a school project.…

Too Cool for Later School “RRRRING” The bell screamed and I had to scurry home. It was wintertime and pitch black. The street lamps were no match for the darkness. My mom was at work and I had soccer at 4:30 and I practiced until 5:30. After that, I had dinner and homework to get to. I thought to myself why did school have to start later? I fell asleep at midnight, just to do all of that over again the next day. The principal may have thought that school should begin at 9:00am, however, I was…

belts in the public transportation system, especially when it comes to school buses. The NHTSA believes these vehicles are safer without seat belts. School buses are at the core of this debate because they pose as a double-sided figure for both the NHTSA and the rest of the stakeholders. For this reason, the NHTSA has provided a concept called “compartmentalization” to support its argument. Compartmentalization, which arguably works best for school buses, is a method of placing the seats…

In the book she has to fight with herself which then changes her character. She is changing her beliefs by hiding a secret from her mother. Just earlier on in the day the kids had dug holes in the road causing the Jefferson Davis school bus to crash. When news started to spread more and more people started to know. When Cassies mother found out she had to go against her on will not to tell her what had happened. As the children were sworn to secrecy and could not tell. "its funny, i didnt…

Ever since the school started, we have had more and more students from different grade levels attend here. However, it is quite clear that our school is still rather small compared to others, but nethertheless, teachers and students have begun to create clubs dedicated to activities such as sports, music, artwork, boardgames, and so on. The school has also developed other traditional programs such as Student Council, and from what I heard, our school is soon going to develop our very own Honor…

Board a plane for Fort Jackson, South Carolina. You think that would be a great thing especially in January, which is terrible month in New England. Except for the fact that I hate flying. Once of the plane in South Carolina you are herded like cattle to a holding area were you wait forever with hundreds of other people. In waves you board a bus which will talk you from the airport to Fort Jackson. I remember the moment we got on Fort Jackson and the bus came to a stop, I looked out the…

Whoever has received a bad grade is not a bad person, but you probably did not get enough sleep last night, or did not get enough time to study. A problem facing students today is how early they wake up to catch the bus. I know this does not affect all students, but more than half of America’s school children ride the bus. Chelsea buses pick up middle and high school students, meaning there has to be more time added to pickup and drop off. This also adds time to be able to drop off every child.…