Bus Driver: 'I Didn't Do Anything Wrong'

July 9, 2008— -- The video was a YouTube sensation — 15-year-old Samantha Taylor caught on a security camera, out of control on an Arizona school bus. For 10 minutes she threatened driver Kim Sullivan.

"It's distracting when I'm driving," Sullivan said, speaking about the incident for the first time to ABC News' Deborah Roberts. "It makes it dangerous. And I finally thought, 'All right, this is way out of control.' And I got up and said, 'Call 911!'"

"I didn't really look at her as an authority figure," Samantha said. "She wasn't someone I needed to respect, because she didn't respect anyone back."

"I remember when [Samantha] kinda started yelling," said Sullivan's daughter Erin, who was also on the bus. "And you could tell they were trying to get some kind of rise out of my mom."

The scene shocked Highley Unified School District Superintendent Dr. Joyce Lutrey, who said "there are rules" about how bus drivers maintain order.

"They go through extensive training," she said. "There's a special license. And those are very important because the driver's main responsibility is getting children to and from school safely and ready to learn."

Sullivan, who works just outside Phoenix, is not the first to lose order on her bus. Each year, there are hundreds of cases of schoolbus violence nationwide, but none got as much notice as the incident on Sullivan's bus in February.

"She was upset that I was talking on my cell phone too loud, even though the person two seats behind her was sitting on her phone just the whole time," Samantha said. "But when I touched the seat, I got yelled at because I was being too loud and distracting her."

In fact, this wasn't Samantha's first run-in at school. She had been suspended in the past and targeted as a discipline problem on the school bus.

On this day, when she continued taunting Sullivan, the bus driver pulled over and laid down the law, enforcing the strict rules she's ordered to follow.