Philly’s bus driver shortage is a ‘crisis,’ leaving kids missing school or stranded

Philadelphia Inquirer via MSN ^ | 09/13/2021 | Kristen A. Graham,

[Kid Shelleen]

Most days, the yellow bus that’s supposed to take Denise Madre’s kids from their Germantown home to school in Roxborough doesn’t show up at all. A bus did come on one of the six days school has been open so far — nearly four hours late. ---SNIP---But the transportation reality has been much worse than anyone had braced for, affecting schools across the city, leaving some students stranded and others on buses for hours or dropped off in the wrong neighborhoods. After a year-plus of pandemic-disrupted learning, persistent bus woes have kept some students out of school completely and left parents and school staff scrambling yet again.

[Nextrush]

I was in a position to leave one of my jobs this year in anticipation of the situation and the other one I will walk from if needed.

[cgbg]

Same thing in CT....

Hope the Pfascists are enjoying the stench.

[T.B. Yoits]

One of these children stranded by a bus is going to be the victim of a crime. At that point, the entire school district administration needs to be brought up on charges.

The Jim Jones Jab is NOT a vaccine and doesn't protect the recipient nor others from COVID. Mandating it is a crime.

[Veggie Todd]

What, no post yet about how we walked to school. In the snow. Uphill, both ways.

[MurrietaMadman]

Send them to school in Afghanistan where nobody is stranded

Sounds like it's on it's way to being an opening line to a prairie home companion antipode show. Nice.

[Steve_Seattle]

When I was a kid, most of us walked to grade school. Buses only became necessary for high school when the school’s demographic area was much larger. (Catholic school systems generally don’t have middle schools: it’s k-8 and 9-12.)

[wingnut1971]

I grew up on the south end of a large lake in Michigan and the school was at the north end...maybe 3 miles. My friends and I rode snowmobiles!

[lightman]

Driving a school bus was always a high stress, thankless job--and now you have to do that suffocating behind a face diaper. No wonder no sane person wants to do that!

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[Taxman]

When I was a kid, I rode a city bus to kindergarten, rode my bike to 1st thru 4th grade, walked/rode school bus in 5th and 6th, rode my bike in 7th and 8th, and, in HS, hitchhiked or caught a ride with one of my buddies.

[DoodleBob]

Siddown, Waldo!

[al baby]

Its a horrible idea whats next taxpayer funded lunch

[EEGator]

America’s test scores are fine if you only include two particular demographics.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

We were at the Northampton PA school board meeting last month, and they announced they had a shortage of bus drivers.

[Flaming Conservative]

Neighborhood schools would fix that. And they should all be equal in curricula, with just a few magnet schools with entrance exams for advanced or special needs programs. Of course, the whole thing would require dedicated teachers. That may be a problem...

[mware]

School gets out at 3:30, my grand niece gets off the bus at 4:30. Only first week in school and they usually cut the time to 4:10 once all the little ones get the system down.

[gitmo]

The article never discusses why they don’t have bus drivers. Very odd.

[Morpheus2009]

Can’t you get tissues and a trash can for the sweat

[rockabyebaby]

Massachusetts has activated the National Guard, yes, the National Guard to drive school buses, SMH

[rockabyebaby]

https://www.boston.com/news/schools/2021/09/13/charlie-baker-to-activate-national-guard-to-help-get-students-to-school-amid-bus-driver-shortage/

[SE Mom]

Wow. Amazing. WTH is going on? We’ve got schoolbus driver problems in Florida too. Reading this thread, it seems to be happening across the country. Why?