Do school bus driver deserve more money??

16 Votes
  • Start Date:
    3-19-2008
  • Last Vote:
    10-16-2008

Issue:

School bus driver earn about $40 a day to drive your children. Is that reasonable?

Belief:

I believe that the School bus drivers are so important to the safe transportation of our most precious cargo that they are worth a lot more. City transit drivers make 20-30 dollars per hour. Garbage drivers get that too. So why on earth do school bus driver only make about $40 a day? Are they not worth it? I mean they only carry children right? I think and strongly believe that school bus driver have a huge responsibility on hand. Just think they have to deal at time with up to 72 children at a time and at the same time they must safely navigate throughout the GTA streets. We ask people not to use cell phones and eat or drink cola while they drive because our streets are so dangerous. Yet we ask our school bus drivers to remain focused on the same roads with 72 screaming children on a bus and pay them $40 to do it? Cab drivers can make that in 30min and they got 1 or 2 people on board. Am I in the wrong? Or am I right.

44%

The next time you see your school bus driver say thanks for keeping your kids safe. And teach your kids to sit quietly while on board and to talk with the kids next to them and not across the bus.

56%

Write to your MP and the school board demanding that the School bus driver deserve more than they are getting. You know why there has not been a school bus strike in I don’t how many years, It’s because the drivers care about the kids and know they must get to school. They care about the kids they transport. Show them you care and write a letter. Make a change. Make a difference. Could you imagine if they school bus driver went on strike? The cities would grind to a halt with all the cars on the road. Please help make this change.

 

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As a former teacher I can tell you bus drivers, on the whole, don't get paid enough--but no one in the education system does except the superintendents. You couldn't pay me enough to drive a school bus with some of those smart aleck kids and their parents who think they do no wrong. I always loved it when the bus had cameras and the parents saw their precious baby acting like a idiot spouting off cuss words! Priceless.

School bus drivers only work a couple of hours a day. and most are aides and such at school. they drive the bus so because when they retire they get equal to there highest earning year.

I think $40 is a little too high. Many teachers
( college educated and many with advanced degrees) don't make that much an hour and they are 100% more important. Our drivers make @ $13 an hour. That's more reasonable.

I agree they are underpaid. Who truly wants to drive 30 or more kids safely to and from school daily and listen to parents whine about how perfect there demon spawn is. (I wouldnt have this job for a million a year) pay themmore. they do us a great service.

you know something bus drivers are human and are trying to make a living like everyone else. i luv my job 23 years most of the time the kids are great but there is alot of responsibility with it.diffently doesnt pay enough even though we are classified as part time alot of us put in 40 hours a week. and in 2 years when minimum wage goes up that what we will be making per hour for charters. i agree we need support to keep busdrivers that do there work properly and are dedicated to it. so please help.
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Considering the demands placed on the drivers, during the run and from the industry as a whole ie: constant workshops, license evaluations. When was the last time your neighbour had yet another road test or even performed the most basic circle check on his or her personal vehicle?

I totally agree!!!

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