I don’t know about taxes in Kentucky but I’m assuming people in the state want to pay as little in taxes as possible. This is the result. How will they pay bus drivers higher salaries to attract them and hire more drivers without raising revenue via higher taxes? I’m going to make a wild guess that teacher and school staff pay is also terrible in Kentucky.
Also, the articles mention that school staff is waiting with the kids. So they are out at the bus stops till 930pm? Are they getting paid overtime for this? Do they have children of their own?
What have Mitchell McConnell and Rand Paul said about this situation in their state?
My wife has a masters in education. Left teaching after 5 years in Kentucky and never broke 40k.
Jefferson County was one of two counties in all of Kentucky to go blue in 2020. It did so by a 60-40 margin.
Pay a consultancy $200,000 to design routes. How on earth did they not realise that would go wrong. And all because they would not pay enough to attract new drivers.
My local school system pays very well to be a bus driver. The issue here isnt pay, it’s the weird split-up day and the fact that kids, by and large, are assholes. No one wants to deal with that, even for a good livable wage.
I mean… if nobody wants to do a job for the pay allotted, then the pay is by definition too low. You can make other changes that bring the acceptable pay range down (make kids not be assholes or something idk) but in the end it’s always about the pay at the end of the day.
That’s true. But the pay isn’t “low”, as such. Just still unacceptable
Seems like arguing semantics. “Low” is relative. There are people who argue that living in minimum wage is 100% possible by oneself. People perform truly shit jobs that greatly endanger their lives simply because the pay is right.
Capitalists want a market economy right until the moment labor is treated the same way.
Semantics. If not enough people will do it then the pay is too low. Pay me a million dollars and I would move there and drive a bus.
I’m a bus driver and I fucking love the split-up day since the break in the middle gives me a chance to go for a bike ride, have lunch and a nap before going back for the afternoon run. But the wage is really not “livable” even though the hourly rate is decent, since we only get 4-5 hours of work a day.
This is weird. While I was watching my daughter, a show came on telling children what to do in just such a case… basically, just beep the horn like mad person and this should help. I though “this really happening that much kids got a TV show explaining how to escape a locked school bus?” Now i see this article, crazy.
I assume people think I’m lying but here is the episode. https://youtu.be/p_wpS_pidTY
