A 15-year-old girl stopped an out-of-control school bus she was riding. But instead of getting a medal she got a Saturday detention - because she was skipping school.
Amanda Rouse is a pupil at Marina High School in Seaside, California, US. She was on a bus with 40 elementary school students earlier this month. Suddenly the driver fell out of her seat after a turn and hit her head.
Rouse jumped up and applied the brakes. The bus stopped after hitting two parked cars. No one was injured.
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She had asked the bus driver for a ride because she felt sick on the way to school. The school thinks that she should have called in sick to school, or called her grandmother first.
"She is in trouble with school because she made the wrong decision," said Rouse's grandmother, Sally Correll. "But I can't help but believe that she was where God wanted her to be."
A spokesperson for the Monterey Peninsula Unified School District could not immediately be reached.(AP)
一名十五歲的女學生阻止了一輛失控的校車，然而這件善舉不但沒讓她受到表揚，反而被罰週六到校─因為當時在校車上的她正在翹課。
亞曼達．蘿絲是美國加州濱海市瑪莉娜中學的學生。月初，她乘坐一輛載滿四十名學童的小學校車時，校車司機在一個急轉彎後摔下駕駛座，撞到了頭部。
蘿絲立刻跳上駕駛座並踩了煞車，結果公車衝撞兩部停在路旁的車子後，停了下來，所幸無人傷亡。
她因為上學途中感到不適，於是要求校車司機載她一程。學校方面則認為，她應該先打電話向學校請病假，或先聯絡她的祖母。
「學校處罰她是因為她做錯了決定，」蘿絲的祖母莎莉．康瑞爾說：「但是我不得不相信那是上帝的安排。」
記者無法立刻與蒙特瑞半島聯合學區發言人取得聯繫。（美聯社／翻譯：楊鴻泰）
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