Student Management
What this domain tests
Student Management covers the legal limits on discipline, keeping order while driving, and handling disruption without creating a new hazard. Items often describe a misbehaving student and ask what the driver may and may not do.
Core rules
- You may not use corporal punishment or physical discipline. Keep your hands off students unless you are protecting someone from imminent harm.
- You may give verbal directions, assign seats, and set expectations at the start of the year.
- Students stay seated, facing forward, with the aisle and stairwell clear. No standing, no eating, no loud noise that distracts you.
- If behavior is unsafe, pull over at a safe spot, set the parking brake, and deal with it. Never stop on a curve, a hill crest, or a railroad crossing to discipline.
- Do not leave the bus unattended with students aboard, and do not put a student off anywhere except a scheduled stop or the school.
- Do not allow unauthorized riders on the bus.
- Report serious or repeated problems to the school administration in writing.
Worked example
Two students start fighting in the back. The driver pulls into a driveway, sets the brake, radios dispatch, and uses a firm voice to separate them by name. The driver does not grab either student and does not move the bus until both are seated.
Traps that cost marks
- Pulling a student by the arm or shirt.
- Letting an angry student walk off the bus mid-route.
- Continuing to drive while students are out of their seats.
- Escalating by shouting instead of stopping safely and reporting.