'My foot's gonna be so far up your a**': Fed-up school bus driver's rant at student bullies goes viral
AMHERST, OHIO: After yelling at pupils who attempted to cause her to have an asthma attack by perfume-spraying the bus she drove, a school bus driver in Ohio has resigned out of despair. Jackie Miller, who had worked in Amherst for the previous two years, was caught on camera asking the alleged adolescent bullies to "shut your mouth" before finally saying, "I'm done with this s**t!"
After last week's incident, the veteran driver with a 15-year service record resigned from her position, blaming it on what she told local media was persistently rude behavior from a particular group of students on her route who she alleges bullied her out of a job.
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'I'm gonna start f*****g kicking some serious a**'
After a kid informed Miller that someone had sprayed perfume on the bus, Miller was seen raging down the aisle in the video. In the video she said, "How much more do you expect me to f*****g take?' she yelled, then demanded to know which student had done it. "I'm sick of you, I'm done with it," she said, pointing out each individual student who had a part in bullying her. "I'm gonna start f*****g kicking some serious a**."
"'Do you hear me?' she yelled at students. "My foot's gonna be so far up your a** it's gonna dangle out your f*****g nose." But the teenagers allegedly kept spraying perfume during the bus ride with Miller insisting she could smell it. "I'm allergic to that s**t." She then said, "I ought to walk off this bus right now and let you people walk the f**k home," she said, as reported by DailyMail.
'I had a horrible asthma attack'
Miller later justified her actions despite the harshness of her response, telling 3News how a month before the same group of teenagers had purposefully sprayed perfume on the bus, giving her a significant asthma attack. She said, "She sprayed perfume on the bus and I had a horrible asthma attack." She went on and added, "I had to stop the bus, grab my inhaler and try to get my lungs to open up again. I had all the kids open up all the windows they know this."
Miller claimed that the pupils had been purposefully upsetting her for years and that she had had enough when the perfume was sprayed once more following the initial incident. She said, "I'm sorry for the way this went down, I truly am. I do apologize for my actions, but I won't take it back." She further added, "This is a plight of all bus drivers, we are treated in the worst possible sense of the word," adding "We are treated with such lack of respect," as per reports.
T-shirt with viral rant goes on sale
After the video of Jackie Miller's profanity-laden meltdown went viral on social media, she became the focus of national headlines. Understandbly, there was an outpouring of support from the public. A GoFundMe campaign was created to help with Miller's "Retirement & vacation" spending. A local shop even began selling t-shirts with a quote from Miller's extensive rant. The sale proceeds are being donated to organisations that help school bus drivers.
The GoFundMe has raised more than $15,000 in less than a day, as per reports. The Go fund page motive states, "Bus drivers, teachers, cafeteria workers, janitors and school staffs are the hardest working people and a huge influence on our children. Yet they continue to be underpaid and under appreciated. Kids these days are out of control and no one is allowed to reprimand them in fear of losing their job."
It further adds, "After so many years of being treated horribly by kids and underpaid this bus driver was done with it and went Red Foreman on them. I'm on her side and if it was my kids, make em walk!" The money raised, according to the fundraising campaign, will be used to help Miller pay for some time off after she quit her work as a bus driver.
After watching the video, Main Street Threads owner Jacqui Adkins said she felt bad for Miller and made T-shirts to show her support. She said, "We all kind of just felt for her in that moment. We've all had bad days, we've all gone through hardships and our hearts just went out for her."