Kids Decide That School Is More Fun Than Great Adventure

“We thought she was just going this weird way to the high school.”
—Nourhan Heikel, a student from Little Falls, N.J., whose daily bus ride to school was very nearly a trip to Great Adventure thanks to a confused driver who thought she was picking up kids en route to an annual school outing to the New Jersey amusement park, and who ignored the kids’ protests that they should be going to school, and not barreling down the New Jersey Turnpike. In the pre-cell-phone era, this would have been the opening scene in either a crazy Savage Steve Holland comedy or a slasher bloodbath; now, it’s just the prelude to a bunch of aggrieved phone calls to parents. Technology!