IN reply to "School bus nightmare", published in the Letters page on Thursday, January 8.

The writer says that if a person is to board a school bus and wishes to obtain a seat, they will be shouted at and scowled upon.

I myself am a pupil at a secondary school and I get a school bus to and from school and I can honestly say that I have never, in the six years that I have been getting a school bus, heard or seen any of the aggressive and vulgar actions described by the writer of this particular letter.

I am left to wonder if the bus this person boarded was a bus with a few vulgar children trying to be big, and have therefore come to the conclusion that all teenagers mean trouble. This is not the case. Has the writer not also taken into consideration that it was a school bus service and is there for the use of the children? Also, because it is a school bus, that person should not have boarded and paid the fare. If you find it completely necessary to get a bus at the same time as children get their school bus, then I think you should be prepared to take the bitter with the sweet.

Kelly Duffy

Southfield Drive

Westhoughton