Well, If He Didn’t Come Up With It, Who Did?

De Tocqueville and political scientists young and old will have a field day with this — the Death Cheese Laws seem to be part of a natural order of things:

Charges have been dismissed against a Staten Island school bus driver accused of encouraging older students to bully younger ones to keep order.

The rap against Michael Cianci of Parlin, N.J., was dropped Friday after Staten Island Assistant District Attorney Quentin Smith read a 10-page dismissal recommendation to Judge Alan Meyer.

Cianci was arrested Jan. 31 and accused of creating a “Lord of the Flies” atmosphere on his bus.

Authorities said he encouraged students in his so-called Death Cheese Club — supposedly named for the yellow school bus — to use headlocks on other students and push them around.

But Smith said the district attorney’s investigation found that “Cianci was not the originator of the game based on the ‘Death Cheese Laws.'”

The prosecutor said that Cianci admonished unruly students but “never physically touched any student.”

“Although the district attorney’s investigation has revealed that [Cianci] may have at times exercised poor judgment in failing to maintain an orderly environment for the children riding his bus . . . not every instance of poor judgment gives rise to criminal liability warranting a criminal prosecution,” Smith said.

Backstory: Working Slob’s Death Cheese Bus Stopped.