Those kids on that bus have no respect and are clearly not expecting any consequences. They have no fear of repercussions because they've never had any. Their parents have failed them and the school system has failed them by not having the guts to stand up to whining lazy parents who don't want their special snowflake to have consequences for their punk behavior.
I asked this earlier in the thread because we don't have bus monitors here. I am also wondering if she reported the students' behavior, or if they were only found out because they were stupid enough to post the video on facebook.
Those kids sound like real bullies-if they treat an adult like that, I wonder if they've bullied other kids on the bus or in school?
I'm sure they bully anyone who they consider less than them. I'd also bet serious bucks that they disrespect their own parents and treat them like crap on a regular basis. I'm sure it started as toddlers and the parents did nothing because it was "cute" or because it was a "natural expression". And then did nothing as they got older because they subscribe to that parenting philosophy that kids will inevitably talk back and mouth off and treat parents like crap, but there's nothing you can do but wait until they move out of the house.
I was regularly astonished at how my dd's friends -- middle class, midwestern suburbanites, top 10% of their grade, mostly church-going, most with SAHMs -- talked to and ABOUT their parents. My dd was as well, to be honest. These kids were nice to each other and to their teachers and other students, but to their parents?
Unbelievable behavior. The kids had zero respect for their parents, did not like them and said they didn't love them either. And after watching them in action for nearly 20 years, I'll venture reasons why: no consequences for bad behavior, no consistency, a desire to be a friend rather than a parent, fearing that imposition of consequences will make the kid dislike them/run away, not wanting to be the "bad guy" because that's not fun...
It all boils down to lazy parenting, pure laziness. These same people all seem to also have dogs who are totally untrained -- another sign of pure laziness that is counterproductive. And then these same parents ask why my dd and I get along so well and why dd never speaks disrespectfully to me -- then answer their own question before I can, by saying I got "lucky." Bullhockey. I didn't get lucky. I worked HARD at being a good parent.
What fascinates me is that when the kids were over at our house, there was no backtalk to me after the first time. They tried it once and consequences happened and that was the end of that crap. My dd asked her best friend one time why she talked to her mother that way but didn't talk that way to me and her friend's answer was, "I'm scared of YOUR mother. I love her, you know, but I'm scared of her too." Well,
good. Be scared and don't act like a freaking punk and we'll get along. Disrespect me and act like a punk and bad stuff will happen.
Of course, DH & I took matters into our own hands and DS ended up working at a group home for mentally handicapped persons mostly cleaning cobwebs off the soffits under the roof, changing lightbulbs for the motion detector lights outside, planting new rose bushes, and moving all the parts of a large handicapped acessible swingset from point A to point B. Hot & dirty work. And DS even left early without finishing! Well, the director called me right away. We took him BACK to the home, sat there and waited for him to finish his work. At the end of the day, the director thanked him for finishing his job. That's when I let her know that DS would be coming back for 2 more weekends of work--one week for being deceitful and one week for being a punk. To his credit, he went back and the director had him shredding papers and moving files for 8 hours straight both days. 
