School buses are supposed to be a safe place where the kids go after school to go back to their own homes. Unfortunately, this is not the actual situation. There are young lost children, bullying in the bus, dangerous drivers, and many more. A lot of parents are scared and don’t want their child to be influenced by the wrong people. On the side of the bus drivers, they are discouraged from doing discipline and are controlled by some kids who think that they have more power than they do. They want some changes.
One of the biggest problems is everything that surrounds intimidation. The bus conductors are sometimes part of it. Many comments were made by the parents concerning the violence of driver. One of them has said a coronation to a little child, scaring the parents and the child in question. On the other hand, a lot of bus drivers don’t want to do their job anymore because they are receiving many bad comments from the kids.
Mélissa Girard, one of the directors of the association of the school buses, said that she received many complaints from the drivers, saying that they were anxious because of the trouble they face every day on their bus. This is the case of an old bus driver who has experienced this type of situation when a teenager decided to throw crackers from his lunchbox. ”If they don’t do anything, I’ll hand my keys,” said the 50-year-old bus driver.
The lack of a driver also causes a lot of issues. The conductors have difficulty taking their day off due to a sickness or a problem they have encountered, because the system of education misses a lot of bus drivers. Another thing is the fact that the replacement doesn’t know the bus route, and sometimes, it can encounter serious complications. Maddison, a little girl in primary school, got stuck on the bus for three hours due to the bus driver, who was stressed because she didn’t know where to go. Instead of keeping her calm, the driver was rude and was not disrespectful to her. From now on, Maddison and her brother are walking to school. ”It really takes a big weight off my shoulders,” concludes Jennifer Tremblay, the mother of the two children.
With more than hundreds of complaints, the scholar system doesn’t know what to do anymore. They have difficulty finding a balance between all this. On the other hand, the scholar system could be more included in the case of the school buses, and of what is happening outside the school. Many of the supervisors at school don’t necessarily act when a chaotic situation happens. For some schools, when the buses are gone off the school grounds, they say that they are not involved and concerned about the problem anymore. ”The school board told us there was nothing they could do if our son was attacked,” said a mom of Laval, who was upset about the lack of collaboration of the school.
Everybody hopes that the problem will be settled soon and that the kids will be able to go to school without having to be anxious about the day coming. Many also hope that the bus driver will be better treated by the school system concerning their work and by all of the children who use this transport every day.
