After her kids kept coming home in tears after riding the bus, a Tennessee mom, known as @cassahfrass1 on Tiktok, decided it was finally time to talk to their bus driver. It's an understatement to say the meeting didn’t go well, and now the mom has gone viral on TikTok for sharing the awful confrontation between the two of them. Every mom wants their child to be safe with the adults they entrust them to each day both on the way to and at school, but in this case, she had some serious doubts.
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Nearly 8 million people watched the mom as she asked her kids’ bus driver to stop making them cry every day.
As her kids, who range in age from 4 to 10, board the bus, the mom told them she loved them and she asked the bus driver for one simple thing: “Please don’t yell at my kids today,” she said in the video.
Immediately, the bus driver was lit.
“I don’t yell at your kids!” she shouted.
'No, I do not. You shut your mouth,' the bus driver added.
“You’re not going to talk to me — who do you think you are?” the mom asked her.
“Who do you think you are?” the driver shot back in the clip.
“I’m asking you not to yell at my kids,” the mom asked again.
“How dare you tell me not to yell at your kids!” the bus driver responded.
'Yes, they cry every day,' the mom added.
The bus driver shut the doors, but it appeared she was still yelling. As she pulled away, it almost looked like she flipped the bird at the mom.
“The school can’t do anything, they come home crying every day,” the mom wrote in the video’s caption.
In a follow-up video, the mom went into detail about what the bus driver’s been doing. She claimed that the week before the bus driver “pushed my son into the seat … Thursday, Lily was crying. … Friday she called me an a–hole to my daughter — not to me. Monday she told the kids that I need to grow up and start taking them to school” and on September 28 the mom took the video that has since gone viral.
“Everybody’s coming for me for not yanking my kids off the bus,” she said. “I was in the moment at the time, now that I think about it, ‘Yeah I should’ve yanked them off the bus.’”
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But there was a reason why she didn’t take them off the bus.
"That afternoon I was going to go pick them up, that was the plan I was going to pick them up, because I didn’t want them riding the bus," she explained, but earlier she had called the bus garage to report the driver and they made a strange request — "We kinda want to monitor her can you let them ride the bus?” So she did.
The mom sent the bus garage the video she’d taken and another video where the bus driver was yelling at her mother on the porch — but school officials did absolutely nothing. The mom was later told that all of the footage from the camera on the bus was “messed up” and even the tech person couldn't get it to work.
“They said, ‘She seemed nice to the kids. She was handing them their mask and greeting them as they got on the bus.’ Nothing about her behavior to me. Nothing," she said.
Then the mom shared a phone conversation between herself and an employee of the bus garage after she’d given her evidence.
“I was wondering about the update for the bus driver on bus 36?” the mom asked in an audio clip she shared in her latest video before getting to the point.
“OK, so is she gonna be fired?” the mom asked.
“Probably,” the employee replied. “I can’t 100% say for sure or not.”
The mom ended the video with a disheartened look — which is completely understandable.
