If you constantly take the grief of others as your own grief, your experience will always be horrible. There’s always plenty of grief going around. Always has been. Always will be. The only difference between now and 20 years ago (besides the fact that we are safer in every way now) is that we have the internet to…

I don’t think people should be blamed for taking a job for the money. When I was little, we made the bus driver’s life a living hell while we were on that bus. I could see how someone might lose it and kill the kids (I’m not saying it’s excusable but just that I can see how someone - maybe they have an under-developed…

When I worked in a drug court, I had a client who was on enough methadone to knock out an elephant (200 ml) and was a school bus driver. This is a problem because people on half that will often nod out at random times. Like in the middle of a sentence. Due to privacy rights, I couldn’t do/say anything to his employer…

Well of course they’re in it for the paycheck - that’s why people have jobs.

Good luck with your call. Our school district has them and they have been everything but responsive when I have contacted them in the past. The prevailing attitude seems to be that they can’t be bothered with anything and want to make it very clear that they think anyone who calls is an idiot.

If public transportation gives less than a shit about you recording the bus flying past you in order to make that light (it didn’t, but hey, running through red lights is an old St. Louis tradition!), I know damn well that school bus transportation doesn’t care. I worked for a HS for 5 months, and the calls I’d get…

Yeah, but this is a microcosm of society. People don’t give a shit about consequences that might impact people other than themselves.

Well of course they’re in it for the paycheck - that’s why people have jobs.

Breaking, people with shitty job motivated primarily by the money they make at said shitty job.

Some of them were actually really nice people. My son absolutely loved his driver from 2nd grade (she was a genuinely kind person) and a few others. My uncle was one up to his 70s, and he was like a grandpa to the kids on his route. But most of them were plainly looking forward to the end of the day.

Very skeptical that as many as 25% of bus company employees are “in it” for the simple joy of transporting children to school.

I had a bad driver when I was a kid. She was super inconsistent on when she showed up. It was a rual county and we lived on a bad curve so my parents didn’t want me stand outside for half an hour every morning waiting. My mom contacted the school board, the result? 8 got kicked off the bus. I certainly understand why…

No, society didn’t fail her. The management and ownership of Dunham Bus failed her. Having nearly two decades of putting-kids-on-busses experience behind me (including several years of dealing with Dunham), I’ve come to the conclusion that 75% of bus company employees, from drivers to dispatchers, are truly on in it…

Because Johnthony is the real victim here.

I think that it’s incredibly important to report what we know as facts, and not hearsay.

Another mother, Jasmine Mateen, told NBC that she’s been complaining about Walker’s driving since August. One of her daughters died in the incident and two of her other children were seriously hurt.

I recall thinking 2015 was shit. Oh boy was I in for a surprise! Count on 2017 being exponentially worse.

Durham Bus Services got the contract this year for my child’s school district. They will be getting a call from me, asking about procedure and how they vet our bus drivers. Jesus, this story breaks my already broken heart. I’m empty. Where is 2017?

Whew. Going through the World Service Authority’s website is a trip. It’s a time capsule to early 2000s web design, for one. The site is filled with paeans to making a better world but when you really get down to it? They’re lefty Sovereign Citizens, except they’ve come up with the “brilliant” idea of charging people…

Anti-union, I think.