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Originally Posted by Dynamic
Lol my neighbor is a school bus driver, I have a school bus literally parked outside my front window much of the school year. I’m well aware of the working conditions and the pay and yes there was bus drivers at the school council meeting when the bomb was dropped about several bus routes being cancelled.
The pay and working conditions always sucked. However our town could always recruit enough stay at home moms and semi retired people who could make the weird schedule work and make a little money. I’m not saying that pay and working conditions are not a contributing factor for the school bus driver storage. The straw that broke the camels back for this town was MELT training requirements. I’ve lived in the area for over 30 years and ride the bus for 12 of those. I’ve never heard of cancelled routes until this year. I’m just telling you what I’ve been told, the MELT has messed things up for lots of people.
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You’ve provided nothing other than rhetoric and confirmation bias to support your position. The facts don’t support your claim that MELT was the “straw that broke the camels back”, one could just as easily(and perhaps more successfully) argue that inflation made the job far less desirable which led to decreased interest.
Many, if not most or all, school bus companies offer paid training so while it’s perhaps plausible that a guarantee of more paid hours in training would somehow be deterring people from applying to work for them, if you’re going to make that argument I think you’ve gotta show a little more of your work on how you came to that conclusion beyond “people who stand to make either financial or political gains from getting rid of it told me so”.