{"id":1589748,"date":"2024-04-04T06:56:38","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T06:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asiapacificreport.nz\/?p=99364"},"modified":"2024-04-04T06:56:38","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T06:56:38","slug":"fiji-bus-drivers-criticise-bullying-by-school-student-video-were-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/04\/04\/fiji-bus-drivers-criticise-bullying-by-school-student-video-were-human\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiji bus drivers criticise bullying by school student video \u2013 \u2018we\u2019re human\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Temalesi Vono in Suva<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Fijian bus drivers and bus checkers wake up early in the morning to serve the public so it is disappointing to see school students harassing and bullying them, says the bus operators industry group.<\/p>\n<p>Fiji Bus Operators Association general secretary Rohit Latchan said he was responding to a recent video on social media involving a high school student threatening a bus checker.<\/p>\n<p>Latchan also pleaded with parents and teachers to teach students respect towards everyone, especially bus drivers and checkers.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/asiapacificreport.nz\/?s=Fiji+bus+drivers\"><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> Other Fiji bus driver reports<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cPeople should realise that bus drivers and checkers are also humans,\u201d Latchan said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re providing service to the public, especially to students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am pleading with parents and teachers to respect and appreciate bus drivers and checkers. There is no need for abuse or threats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDriving all day is not an easy job. We don\u2019t want our drivers to get hurt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Closed fist threat<\/strong><br \/>\nThe video shows the student threatening a bus driver and a bus checker saying,<em> \u2018Au sega ni rerevaki kemudrau\u2019 (I am not afraid of you)<\/em> after he got on board with a closed fist.<\/p>\n<p>Although it is unclear what caused the incident, many found the issue of a young student challenging adults alarming.<\/p>\n<p>Acting Police Commissioner Juki Fong Chew said the matter had been directed to the Central Deputy Police Commissioner for investigations and a team would visit the school tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Education Secretary Selina Kuruleca said all necessary processes had been followed, including informing parents and the Child Protection Services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe again request parents to remind their children on the importance of proper behaviour at all times,\u201d Kuruleca said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven though the student was responding to some earlier incident by the driver, he could have reported the incident to the police instead of this swearing and threatening behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The student is undergoing counselling at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Temalesi Vono is a Fiji Times reporter. Republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/asiapacificreport.nz\/2024\/04\/04\/fiji-bus-drivers-criticise-bullying-by-school-student-video-were-human\/\">Asia Pacific Report<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Temalesi Vono in Suva Fijian bus drivers and bus checkers wake up early in the morning to serve the public so it is disappointing to see school students harassing and bullying them, says the bus operators industry group. Fiji Bus Operators Association general secretary Rohit Latchan said he was responding to a recent video<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":400,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1580,77756,34146,428,5,495,53190,5083,6,7,12,51800,13,77761,417,2703,1743,8296],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589748"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1589748"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1589810,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589748\/revisions\/1589810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1589748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1589748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1589748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}