How A School Bus Driver Impacts the Lives of those She Carri

             Are The School Bus Drivers of America Impacting the Children's Lives Or Are They Impacting Ours?
             Having been a school bus driver myself for the last 6 years. I have seen and heard many things that lead me to believe that bus drivers do make an impact on the children they transport. I have also witnessed from firsthand experience that children also make a lasting impact on the drivers who transport them. Therefore I am compelled to write my essay on this subject matter. We as bus drivers have good and bad stories to tell. Children have stories from their own perspective. What makes a good bus driver? What opinions do bus drivers have about the children that they transport to school? What opinions do the children have about their bus drivers? Have we made a difference in their lives? These and other questions will be answered in the paragraphs to follow. The future of America is in the hands of the one who begins the day and ends the day with a smile.
             On average there are more than 23,000,000 children transported to school by buses across the nation each year by and estimated 460,000 school bus drivers and the numbers are growing.(SBF 29) Training for a school bus driver is vigorous and entails no less than 40-60 in classroom training hours along with 22 hours of on bus navigational training. School bus drivers are required to obtain CDL(commercial drivers license) testing. Which is tough, to mention the least. Each year new endorsements and testing procedures are initiated so that school bus drivers are the most proficient of all drivers out there on our highways. These numbers do not reflect the extra time spent each year for monthly safety meetings, planning and preparing routes guides and safety classes given to the children by these individual bus drivers. The responsibilities are endless when you consider that a school bus driver is transporting the future of America.
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