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News & Current Events Apr 25, 2026 at 10:33 PM

Mississippi middle school students stop bus from crashing after driver blacks out

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Mississippi middle school students stop bus from crashing after driver blacks out
NBC News
Mississippi middle school students stop bus from crashing after driver blacks out
The students were honored at a pep rally Friday and will be treated to a lunch field trip next week at a restaurant of their choosing.
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PensOfSteel Apr 25, 2026 +496
These kids probably reacted better than adults would and worked together admirably. 1 grabbed the wheel, 1 hit the breaks, 1 gave the bus driver her nebulizer while another held her head, and 1 called 911. Great job all around and these kids all deserve medals for heroism. It's nice to see a positive news story for a change.
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nicostein Apr 26, 2026 +141
Clever of them not to include an image, but I know it was the power rangers.
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Fallouttgrrl Apr 26, 2026 +29
I figured the Hey Arnold crew but you might be right
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colinisthereason Apr 26, 2026 +10
The Peanuts Gang waved their arms around her, wished everyone a Merry Christmas and sang Hark the Herald Angels Sing
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Fallouttgrrl Apr 26, 2026 +42
Honestly that sounds like the last five minutes of your typical afternoon Nickelodeon episode
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CellistMundane9372 Apr 26, 2026 +6
Only if the bus driver was sharp and incredibly sassy, and all the kids' clothes had bright colors.
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kittyonkeyboards Apr 26, 2026 +5
Adults have too much cultural norm baggage. Conditioned not to make a scene even when reality is about to crash you into a wall.
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Solleil Apr 26, 2026 +1
having a nebulizer was her saving grace holy shit what luck. thank goodness.
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Dwayla Apr 25, 2026 +260
It was an asthma attack.
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themainsadgurl Apr 26, 2026 +58
Um… idk if you know this, but you can have a medical emergency at any time, unexpectedly.
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themainsadgurl Apr 26, 2026 +23
With this logic you can eliminate majority of truck drivers, delivery drivers, and uber and Lyft drivers lololol
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Nottabird_Nottaplane Apr 26, 2026 +27
People who have asthma shouldn’t drive???? That’s your takeaway?? Are you thinking at all?
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gkanai Apr 26, 2026 -14
There is a difference between driving yourself and driving a school bus full of children. People with a condition that would make them incapable of driving should not be driving school buses.
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MommyLovesPot8toes Apr 26, 2026 +9
Are you allergic to bees? Probably shouldn't drive a bus in case a bee flies in and stings you. Do you have a heart? Probably shouldn't drive a bus, just in case you have a heart attack. Do you have allergies? Because it's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open, and driving with your eyes closed is dangerous. Do you think there are hundreds of thousands of people lining up to take jobs as school bus drivers? If we eliminated anyone with any potential medical complication, there would be zero drivers.
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Elgato01 Apr 26, 2026 +28
You know there’s always a chance you have an aneurysm while driving right? Does that mean by your logic that you should never be in a position of driving anybody either
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ButNotInAWeirdWay Apr 26, 2026 +14
I wanna see the “folk with health disabilities shouldn’t get jobs, since they’ll put anyone at risk” people battling it out against the “I shouldn’t have to pay for the disabled to live, they need to get their own jobs” people. It would be pretty neat to watch. Maybe throw in the “folk with disabilities are selfish for having kids” people, if the argument starts to get stale.
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eeveemancer Apr 26, 2026 +10
the venn diagram of those three demographics, despite being fundamentally contradictory, is a circle
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gkanai Apr 26, 2026 -15
If you're diagnosed as having a condition that would cause you to lose consciousness, then you absolutely should not be responsible for driving other people or flying, etc.
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canadian_xpress Apr 26, 2026 +11
Even people with epilepsy can drive after an extended seizure free period. Diagnoses aren't disqualifications for employment.
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gkanai Apr 26, 2026 -13
I am not saying that they shouldn't drive. I am saying that they shouldn't be driving a school bus.
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AudibleNod Apr 25, 2026 +179
>Mississippi Aww, no >middle school students **Sigh* come on Mississippi you can do better >stop bus from crashing after driver blacks out Alright, something good coming out Mississippi for once. Way to go kids.
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MLB-LeakyLeak Apr 25, 2026 +178
Mississippi students are actually above average now. It took **billions and billions** of dollars from blue donor states, but they did it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_Miracle
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Clunas Apr 26, 2026 +49
This Mississippi parent is grateful for all the work and funding that's gone into it. Hopefully the next generation will be educated enough to start making some more changes in other areas too
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Consistent-Throat130 Apr 26, 2026 +4
Just a shame Mississippi needed the *hand up* to do it. 
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L_Cranston_Shadow Apr 26, 2026 +1
Kind of depends how many of these kids take that education and move out of the state. I don't know how to say this and not sound incredibly judgemental, but given how broken and depressed the rest of your state is, including the lack of major well paying employers, I would be willing to bet that the ones that can get out, will. Those will be the most educated and qualified to improve things over time. The Midwest has had the same issue since WWII and the GI Bill gave people better options.
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bros402 Apr 25, 2026 +28
Now they rank [34th](https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/education/prek-12) in the nation.
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IANALbutIAMAcat Apr 26, 2026 +6
Thank god for Mississippi
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AudibleNod Apr 25, 2026 +36
The real TIL is always in the comments
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IANALbutIAMAcat Apr 26, 2026 +8
I only learned about this a couple weeks ago as someone who grew up about 20 minutes outside of Mississippi. I’m so glad for them.
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Midnighter88 Apr 26, 2026 +3
Clearly not on the Alabama side. "At least we're not Mississippi" was the state motto when I was growing up. 
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rabidstoat Apr 26, 2026 +7
We shouldn't stop until all our states are above average! /s
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AwakePlatypus Apr 26, 2026 +3
No State Left Behind!
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123ludwig Apr 25, 2026 +8
is this a case of federal funding or states actually donating to improve another state
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MLB-LeakyLeak Apr 25, 2026 +18
Federal welfare
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StuffonBookshelfs Apr 25, 2026 -4
They started retaining 3rd graders so they would be better at the 4th grade reading test.
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Sanity_in_Moderation Apr 26, 2026 +1
>"This embrace of phonics education and the near-complete rejection of whole language theory was a key component of the program's success." The damage that whole language theory has done to millions of children is staggering. It's so bad that long term analysis of children's grades found that the more exposure they got to that garbage theory, the worse they did.
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BrilliantThought1728 Apr 25, 2026 -10
What are you talking about?
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kittleherder Apr 26, 2026 +22
Good chance these Mississippi kids already have some experience driving and were able to apply that here. Farm equipment, four wheelers, cars for their drunk parents, golf carts etc.
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avboden Apr 26, 2026 +7
Yeah I'd say most 6th graders at least understand how a car works, even if they don't drive. Still pretty cool to jump to action and actually get it done though
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No-Manufacturer-2425 Apr 26, 2026 +3
I live on an arterial alleyway, and you'd be surprised how many 12 year olds they can fit on a golf cart and stop just shy of daddies little girl speeding down the road in her brand new F250.
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_Random_Username_ Apr 26, 2026 -6
Can the student also summon mysterious balls of light?
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