For all the bus driver knew he was headed along his normal route, little did he know he had taken a turn down chaos road.
"This one's pretty, yeah this one's a mess," said Tulsa Public Schools public information officer Chris Payne.
A fight that had been brewing earlier in the day between some kids, got even nastier when a relative boarded the bus with a knife.
It sounds insane. "It is, it is," said William Ford. His niece was on the bus and he was waiting at the stop when it all erupted.
"I understand being upset,if it's my child in there and they're into some type of a ruckus on a bus, I want to get to the bottom of it too. But there's a way to do it, I'm not going to go in armed to fight with school children being a grown person, that's just dumb," he said.
Curtis Monroe was charged with assault with a dangerous weapon on a minor. And turned into a lesson on how not to behave by area residents.
"All the parents should talk about it, you have to have a tolerance in yourself," said Ammar Ali. He works at the convenience store across from the bus stop, and has an 8 and a 9 year-old.
"You need to talk, you need to talk to the teacher and you need to talk to your kids, not to do next time, but to grab a weapon and get into the bus, that's like ridiculous," he said.
A lesson in maturity and patience, taught long after class has been dismissed by teachers at the school of common sense.
"When the parents want to act a fool, then the kids are gonna act a fool," said Ford.
