A company that sells cameras to catch drivers illegally passing stopped school buses wants to turn them into license plate readers.
  • Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42 minutes

    Red mayor promises tax cuts.

    Those cuts come directly from public education.

    2 years later they realize they can’t afford to run the schools after tax cuts.

    Pushes emergency levee or threatens to cut school bussing.

    Rinse repeat

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
    2 hours

    Your kids’ school bus

    Look at this journalist, thinking anyone with kids can afford to have more than one.

  • Mongostein@lemmy.caEnglish
    4 hours

    I don’t doubt it. I drove a school bus for three years. The companies don’t give a fuck about anything but money.

    Your route is literally impossible to do because of the laws of physics? Tough shit. Routes go over an hour and a kid has to pee? Let them pee their pants. Also, we’re going to pay you minimum wage while being responsible for a heavy vehicle carrying 30+ children in rush hour traffic. These are the problems drivers face. Its why they have like 300% turnover.

    • AzuranAurora@piefed.caEnglish
      1 hour

      Oh, and we hope you like getting sick all the time because kids are disgusting and the bus is a giant petri dish on wheels!

      • Mongostein@lemmy.caEnglish
        26 minutes

        Actually I found that I stopped getting sick. I guess being exposed to everything in small doses every day strengthened my immune system. 🤷‍♂️

    • AreaKode@riskeratspizza.comEnglish
      4 hours

      I work in the technology department at a school district. Last year, they were so desperate for drivers, they actually offered staff to drive busses. I would get paid to drive a bus while still getting paid for my full time job. But fuck that. Not enough money in the world to get me to do that.

      • Mongostein@lemmy.caEnglish
        3 hours

        I’m a former truck driver. I went back to school and graduated during the pandemic to an industry that required people to be around eachother. I took the job to tide me over until things opened up again.

        Knowing they were short qualified drivers, I was very loud about these issues. I did eventually get my route fixed, but it took 3 months! I quit when I was reprimanded and told to let kids pee their pants after stopping at a gas station to let a little girl pee.

      • partofthevoice@lemmy.zipEnglish
        4 hours

        You had a healthy immigrant population that didn’t mind taking up the jobs everyone else didn’t want. They did it, they worked hard, and they had a beer at the end of the day. Too bad they were chased out of town, slandered, kidnapped, tortured, deported to foreign states, …