no, she should not serve time. she should do community service of some type. did the judge take into consideration that she still has children to care for and what effect it might have on them. think outside the box people!!!

i think that this lady is not all there, yeah she might still have other children to raise but if the punishment isn't strong then she will get away with a slap on the wrist and something else will happen, but now i think she will think twice before doing it again... and then people wonder why we have kids killing kids and all this craziness going on with our children it all starts at home, we need to self examine our selves daily and make sure we are raising our kids to be good human beings

Hell Yes the punishment fit the crime, a school bus is the same as school property she walked on to school property and provocted a fight between 2 minor children. regardless of other children she has she should have thought of what would happen from her actionand she didnt. playing the "Mental Condition" card doesnt always work. she got what she deserved in fact I think the judge went light on her ony a year in county with good credit and behavior she will be out before you know it, (6 months tops) and right back to doing crimes, folks this isnt your stay at home, goodie too shoes mom this lady has already done time and in and out of trouble before. guess she didnt learn her lesson then.  This story here doesnt tell it all she also got probation and anger management classes too.

SHE GOT WHAT SHE DESERVED
IF I WAS THE JUDGE I GAVE HER 2 YEARS

No, she should have received more time.  What kind of example is she setting for her children if she allows them to fight?  What kind of mother gets on a school bus, holds her daughter's backpack and provokes her child to hit another?  I agree with Brenda, this woman was far from a goody too shoes mom..

Since she does have kids to raise, I think she should be on house arrest with work privilege only. She should be tested weekly for drug and alcohol use. I am sure she did not get so wacky without the use of chemicals.

Parents are supposed to set an example!  This will teach her kids that there are consequences to your actions!

I belive the judge made the right ruling. This mothers actions endangered all the children on the bus, not to mention the message she sent out to the children.
In court, she offered no remorse or appolgy to any of the parties involved.  
And then she had the poor taste to smack gum while in court on the stand. No class, no parenting skills and no remorse, got her got what she deserved.

Jail and foster care for her kids is probably not going to fix any of this -- probably make it worse.  She was a complete idiot who thought she was BA and wanted to teacher her daughters how "cool" it was to be BA.  Her mother probably taught her the same thing.
She should have to attend weekly, mandatory parenting classes to cover all age ranges from birth through adult for however many years that takes AND she should be TESTED in order to move on to the next course to be sure she comprehends the material.  She should also be monitored closely until her children are no longer of school-age.
Most importantly for the victim, she and her daughter should have to write letters of apology to the girl who was attacked.  

she should have gotten a harder punishment. is out right ignorant!

She is typical of the hit em, hurt em, make them pay mentality of low intelligence, poor, single parent black women who don't have any comprehension about how to parent, much less how to live in a civilized society.  I say make her pay reparations and ship her back to the motherland.

You peole are pathetic. The Punishment is too severe for a basic school fight.  I am not to comfortable with her going on the school bus, but they settled girl to girl so to speak. What kind of parent would she be if she let her kids get pushed around. You got to look at soceity for what it is and protect yourself and your family, now is she beat up the 12 year old then you have a better argument. Its long been asked: what kind of country are we becoming? A bunch of whinning spoiled punks? And of course her being black doesn't help as our good old Roberts shows us. If she was white half of you guys would of been crying bloody murder.

Everything is not a matter or race and it's sad that ignorant people use any medium possible to spread stereotypes and hatred for other races. I am not certain that a year in jail is a good punishment because she does have other children but she definately should not get off with a slap on the wrist.

I think a year is too long to serve. You all may be right about taking matter's into your own hands because we have to look at the consequences of our actions. As a mother I have a low tolerence for bully's becuase I was bullied as a child. I have no problem speaking with the child and encouraging them not to bully and to love each other but sometimes you have to speak their language, in severe cases but at the same time we have to be careful of our actions and what we are teaching our children. I would like to know out of all of you who commented on this lady's sentencing, do you all have children and if you do what are you going to do about the bully's in your childl life. Bully's end up killing children on school property and only God know's what else they do. I'm not excusing her actions but just think for a minute if you were in her shoes regardless of race. It race has some ignorant poeple that make some ignorant decisions.

ABSOLUTELY! I am from the Bronx, NY. We have always been taught to hit those that hit us first. However, as a parent I have to choose my battles wisely. The mother should have went through the appropriate channels to have the 'bully' disciplined. Violence against children is the worse. Even if it is another child causing the problems. She absolutely deserves what she gets. I am from the "hood", but there are rules when it comes to children, and teaching them it is okay to beat someone up by standing by and doing nothing is unacceptable. What if the parent of the other child retailiated before the police picked up the mom? What if the mom didn't get the whole, truthful story? Come on, we gotta use our heads!

Just to be clear...the mom ABSOLUTELY got what she deserved!

THE SITUATION COULD HAV BEEN HANDLE DIFFRENTLY SAHE COULD HAD WENT 2 AN ADULT AND THEY COULD HA WORKED SOMTHIN OUT AND IF THE BULLIN HAD CONTINUE THEN SHE SHOULD HAD LET HER DAUGHTER BEAT THE OTHER GURL ASS I THINK SHE JUMP DA GUN BUT SOM TIME U GOTTA DO WAT U GOTTA DO HER SENTENCE IS UNFEAR  

While I agree that you should not allow your children to be pushed around you have to use common sense! When that "mother" stepped onto the bus she broke the law, secondly she intimidated the bully and what if that bully would've beat her daughter's butt what would she have done? That's what's wrong with society now. We need to learn when to be "hood" and when to handle things in a more civil manner. I also think that her sentence was one year because she has other convictions so obviously time away from her children doesn't mean much.