bus buddy

plural bus buddies

1. A person (either employed or volunteer) who helps aged or disabled people to use public transport.
2. educationA student who is paired with another student when riding a school bus.

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   Mark Flint, who teaches kindergarten in a small rural school in central New York, was disturbed when several of his students complained that they were being picked on by older students on the bus. He is now trying to start a “bus buddies” program whereby each of his children will have an older student to watch over them—and even read to them—during their bus ride.

   2009 September 2, Thomas Lickona, Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility, New York City: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 334