My two cousins. Great job, boys!
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wgme.comPosted Mar 16, 2022, 2:15 PM UTC
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wgme.comIt made national news, I saw it on Yahoo this morning. Good lads.
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Cool under pressure !
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Great work dudes!
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EPICCCCCC
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What great kids they are . Very sad about the driver . RIP
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My heart aches for the driver. Good on those kids, glad they were safe.
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Nice job.
Hope there's some community anger about 50 kids being driven around by an almost 80 year old. I wouldn't even get in a car with someone that age driving.
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In my years of going to school, I have only come across one school bus driver who wasn't elderly. Public transportation is a bit of a different story, but there are quite a few stories of people driving school buses having medical crises and passengers stepping up. It's a bit common.
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Crazy I'm reading facebook comments about this on some articles and they're trashing the people saying it was unsafe for this old man to be driving children around. They're trying to blame it on his recent covid vaccine.
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They're trying to blame it on his recent covid vaccine.
Oh for fuck sake....
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In my years of going to school, I have only come across one school bus driver who wasn't elderly.
I've never met one over 70. That's a serious safety issue. The rural districts have been putting anyone they can in these positions during the pandemic because no one wants to do it... so they get the "no one wants to work anymore" elderly or redneck contingent.
In my district (RSU 57) there's a revolving text chain of which buses won't be in service each morning. Seems like the administrators have just given up.
Failure to take care of our children is the #1 sign of society collapsing IMO.
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It's about to get alot worse as now you have to pay to go to CDL school....
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Well, it's like the childcare post someone made this morning. The state will just have to step in and the taxpayers will end up footing the bill. Has it changed from what it was, where the actual school is now required? It used to be if you could get the handbook and a class B or C truck you could just take the test.
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You might not have noticed.. but there is a labor shortage. It takes a special license and a special temperament to drive a school bus.
They have literally been dragging drivers out of retirement to keep school buses on the road. Several times last winter schools in Maine had to just outright cancel buses and make it the parents problem to get their kids to school because they had no drivers due to shortages and COVID quarantines.
You can be mad all you want.. but the truth is that no one actually wants to PAY bus drivers. Schools are funded with property taxes. And no one wants their taxes to go up.
When you are ready for your taxes/rent to go up.. then you can go ahead and lead the call for better bus driver wages. But most people are just going to bitch on the internet and not actually vote for change... because 'taxes'.
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You can be mad all you want..
What the hell are you talking about with this unhinged rant? I have a 7 year old who rides the bus. I literally pipe into any conversation I can on this sub to explain how low wages are killing this state.
They are going to have to provide the CDL course for bus drivers. When you combine low wages and a free CDL endorsement the drivers get the endorsement and then leave for better paying jobs.
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Hope there's some community anger
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So the sensible thing is condemning me when I point out the ridiculousness of having an 80 year old driving the bus? Welcome to the list.
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Youre asking the victims of capitalism to realize they are victims. I genuinely hope it works out.
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Yeah. I read that they're giving physicals every year to drivers in that district who are extremely old rather than every 2 or 5 years, so the administration clearly knows it's wrong. This wouldn't be a feel good story if the guy had died driving pre K through 5 students to school rather than older kids.
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I didnt even realize that ppl were seeing this as feel good! The world is nuts mate!! Disturbing to hear its something that was semi expected.
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Great job lads. Sorry to read that the driver didn't make it despite everyone's effort.