Posted on 08/18/2021 12:43:58 AM PDT by algore
A Delaware charter school will pay parents up to $700-per-year to drive their own children to school as it grapples with a shortage of bus drivers.
EastSide Charter School in Wilmington said it will to offer the incentive to parents for the upcoming school year after struggling to find adequate staffing across the board.
'There's a labor and inventory shortage at the same time we're increasing enrollment and hiring,' Aaron Bass, chief executive at the school, told the Washington Post.
'We've been looking like crazy for everybody you can think of: janitors, cafeteria workers, psychologists, counselors, bus drivers. Even if you have all the money in the world, you can't get what you need.'
The $700 payment will apply per child. That means a family with five children could profit by $3,500 - or nearly $300 a month - for chauffeuring their own children to and from school.
It comes as industries across the board struggle to find staff amid a nationwide labor shortage driven by unemployment incentives, and pandemic-induced fears over returning to work.
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Not only was it was uphill both ways, my mother thought tennis shoes were bad for the feet so I never had a pair of those until 4th grade.
I had to walk to school every day also 1st thru 4th grade, through the woods. Yeh, it was only a half mile, so what? :)
Then for 5th grade we were gifted with forced busing 12 miles away.
This is a charter school so I’m thinking they have the money to pay. It seems smarter financially to raise the hourly wage to attract workers. Instead of 10 bucks an hour, try 25 bucks an hour.
My local taco time had a sign on the drive thru offering up to $25/hr and $1000 signing bonus..
Local school bus drivers here start at 28.35/hr
Families with five children homeschool.
Well, at least they’re getting some tax money back for a service they will not be receiving.
It is time to stop taxing us for public indoctrination of our children.
It may not be the salary that’s the problem.
It may be the bennies.
So if a person has a minivan and drives six kids do they get $4,200 per year?
There is no such thing as a labor shortage, only a prevailing wage shortage. Answer: PAY MORE = MORE BUS DRIVERS.
Somehow the price of labor is "special" and falls outside the normal supply and demand curve. /sarcasm
If the are not getting employees at wage $X, then they will have to offer ($X + $y). This is not rocket surgery.
It's ALWAYS the salary. This why it's called "wages".
Wages are generally far more affordable than insane pension and health bennies.
Bottom line: PAY MORE = MORE BUS DRIVERS.
Why would any adult want to drive a school bus? One or two unruly kids who will own the driver and all other students. No enforcement ability of the rules, get kids who won’t follow the rules and you yell at them YOU get disciplined. Kids fighting, you can’t put them off the bus. Some 16 year old girl with too short a skirt who decides to stand while the bus in in motion...don’t say a word or you are harassing her. No matter the pay I would never drive a school bus and subject myself to that crap.
Daily Mail's Michelle Thompson does not understand how business works. I guess that's why she writes for Daily Mail.
Private schools manage to get kids to school without buses and they even buy their own textbooks too.The less government control the better for the family.
Where are you?
Depends on the area but yeah, we’ve all seen the videos of city yutes raising hell on a school bus. Here in rural MO, not so much because the bus driver likely knows every parent personally and kids are better behaved here in general.
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