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Aussie Bus Driver Fed Up with 'Misbehavior' Dumps 18 Kids on Side of the Road (themessenger.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I’m a school bus driver myself. I agree to an extent, but leaving kids on the side of the road? Nah.

Us bus drivers take shit from all angles - parents, teachers, students, bosses - while getting underpaid to babysit up to 60 kids while trying to operate a large vehicle often in rush hour traffic.

It’s honestly fucking insane how little it pays, but I’m just using it as a fill-in job while I work at getting more hours at my much better paying job. I can’t wait to get out.

Anyway, I can understand how this happened, but I don’t condone it.

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