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School bosses around here have two way communication... All of them.
Median pay for bus driver is $30k.... Not rich by any means... But they all have cell phones.
1. You don't tell us where "here" is.
2. Source for the "bus driver" pay versus "school bus driver" pay. School bus drivers only work ~4 hours a day, 8 months a year. 8 months x 4 weeks x 5 days a week x 4 hours = 640. $30K/640 = $46.87 per hour. Not buying that for a second.
Reality, average school bus driver makes ~$14 per hour. Using the same math from above, that's $8,960 per year.
I know where I live, near Austin in a fairly affluent district, they are constantly looking for school bus drivers. And this is far from the mean streets of New Orleans.
The bus drivers in places where I have lived have always had a device or radio that they can use to communicate with the bus barn or whatever they use to communicate with their central bus location. It was like that when I was growing up and in all of the places where my children have ridden the bus.
A bus driver will give you permission to step on the bus steps. I have done it a few times. I've always been fairly pleasant and as far as I can tell I am not a threatening person. I'm the visible parent since my husband works. He was off work and decided to greet the kids at the bus one day. The bus driver didn't recognize him. She made my kids identify him before she would let anyone off the bus at that stop. There are good bus drivers out there. Pay isn't high. I looked and starting pay is almost $17 per hour here. School is in shifts so I would guess they work around six hours per day. Still not a lot of money, but maybe they get insurance or some other perks to make it worth it.
2. Source for the "bus driver" pay versus "school bus driver" pay. School bus drivers only work ~4 hours a day, 8 months a year. 8 months x 4 weeks x 5 days a week x 4 hours = 640. $30K/640 = $46.87 per hour. Not buying that for a second.
Reality, average school bus driver makes ~$14 per hour. Using the same math from above, that's $8,960 per year.
I know where I live, near Austin in a fairly affluent district, they are constantly looking for school bus drivers. And this is far from the mean streets of New Orleans.
My son, now 39, punched a kindergarten classmate who had taken one of his personal toys, a little hot wheels car. Bloodied his nose. Showing no empathy to the thief, his teacher was aghast with my lack of interest.
I simply told her, if someone stole my car, I'd punch them in the nose too!
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Been to both not much difference really..
New Orleans seems like the State of Texas to you? ??
Hmm. Said no one ever.
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