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Anyone here ever drive a school bus?

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Have a buddy of mine that has offered me a truck driving job several times over the years but don't think I could handle the Houston traffic nor would I want to. Heck, even the surrounding towns are congested pretty bad these days. The neighboring town has bus driver openings from time to time and well, how bad could that be? I know how the kids act.....a lot worse than what we did? We could be pretty bad lol. Had one driver that would just pull over and stop and tell us we would get home soon if we stopped our crap or we could just go to the bus barn. The buses back then didn't have AC either so it got pretty warm sitting in the Texas sun.
 
The way the world is now, there's no way in hell I'd drive a school bus....
 
You would probably need some stuffed comfort animals and a cry closet on a modern day school bus.
 
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(taken in 2002 while converting buses to GPRS tracked) :D
 
That's funny, up here they turn off the heat to make the kids hunker down.
 
No way in hell. Just think these are the millennial kids.

When I rode in the bus in rural Missouri I the 70’s one false move and we got whooped.

Imagine now!!
 
Busses have AC?
 
Go Fly said:
No way in hell. Just think these are the millennial kids.

When I rode in the bus in rural Missouri I the 70’s one false move and we got whooped.

Imagine now!!
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Millenials are in their 30s now. The only school they attend is College for useless subjects like Gender Studies.
 
been a science and a shop teacher for 9 years now and can say it all depends on the district.

I say give it a shot, but maybe you might want to sit outside their school when they get out one day and have a look for yourself.

Taught in a very tough inner city here in NJ - all school busses had a driver and an aide in the back. Kids were good to me but the bus drivers had it real bad.

Since then I’ve been in a suburban votech the last few years and the kids are all just like us. Probably a lot better than we were because their noses are all stuck to their phones. I’d probably enjoy bussing them.
 
Wife drives school bus been doing it for over twenty years. She just whips the bus around and backs it up with no camera like we do cars. Changed quite a bit since she started. Mostly the feeling good rules the liberal pukes have put into place have to keep voice down and say things like please stop yelling and please don't call me those nasty things. Political correctness. Most kids just play on cell phones. But just yesterday she said the guys were saying i hate babies, **** babies if my girl gets pregnant im kicking that bitch in the stomach. **** that bitch. Finally she had to ask him very politely to stop talking like that. And those are the private Catholic school kids. And if one would say punch you in the face you aren't supposed to defend yourself, your supposed to radio it in. They used to be able to carry pepper spray,but totally unarmed now you could hurt the child with that, that is the management standpoint
 
I hope the wage is enough to get you thinking of driving a bus or it's just interesting enough to do it. Well we need people who will do it. Many years ago when I was in 1st or 2nd grade we had an old guy who drove our buss and he had a temper. One time he grabbed a kid from his seat and the poor kid's face hit a vertical metal bar near the door. Geez the kid had a bloody nose and the driver didn't give a ****...today the driver would have been fired and likely sued.
 
Some districts have "bus aides" that sit in the back.

There is generally much less tolerance of bad behavior than when I rode in the 1980's.

Most schools also now have cops that can address more serious issues upon arrival.

The big thing I couldn't handle would be getting up at 3 or 4am, driving a load of kids in the dark, then being idle and somewhat captive without pay from around 9:00 to around 2:00, then working until 4-5:00.

It's really closer to a 12 hour day with 8 hour (low) pay.
 
Unfortunately the society at large has forgotten how to display proper conduct. Seems most people don't care what anyone thinks of them. Just do anything that makes you feel good. There has to be reasonable middle ground between not having anything to defend yourself in a world of school shootings to beating the **** out of some kid because you have a temper. But then again the genie is out of the bottle, to coin a phrase.
 
Lots of districts have GPS in their buses and almost all have cameras that record to on board hard drives and can be accessed by the school administration, the transportation department and the resource officer.
 
My wife was the bus aid in my above post, because there are routes were that need additional supervision. Time in recent past were two women aids had to have school superintendent remove a very strong high school boy from their bus. Some instances young males dont have the respect for females society once had. But that's not to surprising to me, when the bulk of the music most kids are being fed is about every woman is a ho,****,cunt,bitch,etc.
 
Cameras on buses is another subject of interest, point of fact in the wifes district, big dust up over how the camera is aimed at the driver. And openly stated to them the camera is primarily observe drivers, ancillary to that is school kids conduct.it's quite a bit more political then one might imagine. I was surprised and don't know how she does it. She prefers to drive the young people kindergarten through say 5 th grade. There has also been quite few instances were the call it pulling the tape to see what happened, and it malfunctions and nothing on it. Well that's the story anyway.
 
a guy with the screen name Cranky
will be driving around a bus load of spoiled brats..
this will not end well! lol
 
I drove in the 70’s. Worked 2 jobs. A run in the morning, then PM full time Dispatcher at LANTA. On occasion, I had a Vo-Tech run. There were lots of girls! I was like 22, and they were seniors. I just drooled. Also had a rural run and in winter we had to chain up the outside dual rear tires. Not the new technology, these were a pia. If you ran out of fuel, you got fired. My regular bus was an International Tilt front end with a 400 4 Speed. Had a radio too. I remember blaring Three Dog Night etc. Vo-Tech loved it. Never had a wreck or issue. Rerouting, snow, always handled it. Parents gave me Christmas card when i had an early run with pre middle school kids. Man, I could go on. I’d work weekends and summer too. We waxed the buses once a year. Also polished the bosses airplane. Didn’t know it then, but learned a lot of life skills on that job. This is prehistoric now and not relevant to today.
In California, the certifications sound so involved that I don’t know if i could pass, even though i instructed new drivers back in the day. I sure romped on that 400.
 
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