Like this kid as an example - after his 2nd or 3rd attack he should have been removed from the population. The fact this was his 7th or 8th attack is ridiculous.
If you are a threat to others, you shouldn't be around others.
maybe the system should have put in place of the bus driver, a paraprofessional that specializes in special education on the "short bus"
no clue what kind of abuse the guy went through but there are better ways to ask a mentally unstable person to sit down and the failure here is on the system for not installing a person of authority who obviously only knows how to drive a bus and not much more.
notice how she didnt get hit till she called for cops.
obviously the system needs to make a better way to handle such situations.
Maybe they could install a bus driver that specializes in special education like i said, maybe the system can have a a special ed person on the bus, maybe they could have had a silent button she could have pressed, maybe a bodyguard.
punishing the guy who obviously is unstable will only ensure that he will react like his aggressors as that happens even in so-called stable folks.