City of Philadelphia will pay parents to drive kids to school due to bus driver shortage

[Scientific Playa]

Someone started a thread on this former teacher.

I Quit Teaching: Out of control students get ZERO consequences w/ PBIS, Restorative Circles & BIST​

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  The Locker Room

"6 yr old brought gun to school and shot his teacher in Newport News. This isn’t normal behavior. Our country is demonic."​

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  The Locker Room

"6-year-old boy who shot his Virginia teacher said "I shot that b**** dead,"​

 

[UpAndComing]

they dont pay these drivers enough to deal with demon spawn

Not just the pay. But not job/legal protections if there's anything that happens to the children on the Bus

They are so quick to fire a Bus Driver for anything

 

[DonB90]

My wife has been teaching for 7 years now and won’t give it up. She’s working on her masters to become a guidance counselor to get out of the classroom, but honestly the kids aren’t the worst part it’s the sorry ass parents that make it miserable.

Much respect to your wife and to any of y'all the got to deal with these parents and their undisciplined children

 

[get these nets]

I may be mistaken but I read somewhere last week that the national bus driver salary is $42,000. $42,000 to the person responsible for the person responsible to not drive your kids off of a cliff.

There’s a public bus driver shortage too but I couldn’t imagine driving some bad ass kids all day

Better off putting the CDL to use being a truck driver

 

[The Radiant One]

and make bad ass kids parents pay the price. Do your job if yo kid acting the fool.

Also how bout having some of the non violent criminals drive school bus to cut their time (Get creative)

It’s hard a lot of people think they work but they are often on disability or refuse to work

 

[Fiji Water]

I'm sorry but for the only person to dap to OP be @valet is hilarious to me, considering the topic

 

[8WON6]

Bootstrappers tell people those jobs are "stepping stones" and no real adult should work them and that those jobs shouldn't pay well, then act surprised when people are not taking those jobs trash salaries.

 

[staticshock]

We have a bus driver shortage in the district I work with. School starts at 7:15, but because of the driver shortage, buses have two loads, and the first load gets dropped off at 6:45

So instead of having to be at work at 7, I have to be there at 6:30

 

[get these nets]

We have a bus driver shortage in the district I work with. School starts at 7:15, but because of the driver shortage, buses have two loads, and the first load gets dropped off at 6:45

So instead of having to be at work at 7, I have to be there at 6:30

Districts are going to go back to hybrid model in the future. Grades or classes will alternate days in class.

 

[staticshock]

Districts are going to go back to hybrid model in the future. Grades or classes will alternate days in class.

Parents won’t go for that. A lot of them just see schools are babysitting services. They’re going to raise hell if that’s even a suggestion

 

[newarkhiphop]

The first "rich" breh I knew had a business doing this, yellow busses driving kids to school, he was clearing almost a quarter million a year

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

Pay isn’t the reason. $45K+benefits+potential OT (field trips, sports, after school, weather related issues) is decent in a city with Philly cost of living. If they raised it to $65K people still wouldn’t do it. They only work like 6 hours early morning and afternoon nothing mid-day.

Oakland can’t get 911 dispatchers it’s a 6 figure position starting.

No college degree needed, no work experience needed for these jobs.

People just aren’t stepping up. There’s dudes with no motion broke who won’t apply to these jobs.

I don’t think you realize the mental health issues that come along with being a 911 dispatcher or EMT’s and how jobs don’t give people the resources to handle it.

 

[eXodus]

Our district is good right now.... but I think they raised pay rates for retention.

That’s surprising but good to hear.

In our school district middle/ high school kids have to rely on public transit. So in addition to driver shortages causing there to be gaps in service, making students late to school, they also have to travel through Baltimore.. many times catching multiple buses while being exposed to lord knows what along the way

 

[maxamusa]

my bus driver was cool AF when I was a kid....I use to Ryde for free often

 

[eXodus]

I get a yearly reimbursement check for taking my kids to school I think it’s $500

That’s pretty decent!

Better off putting the CDL to use being a truck driver

yeaaa.. being an urban bus driver is extremely rough.

I was reading in an epidemiology journal some time back that bus drivers have the highest prevalence of hypertension of any occupation in the world.