School Bus Driver Shortage Leaving Kids And Parents Out Of Luck

Outside Eldorado Elementary School in Chestnut Ridge, there were more taxi cabs than school buses Wednesday. CBS2's Nick Caloway reports.

[IISourAyyII]

Maybe you don't force vaccines and cut off unemployment and people will be back to work.

[otogigamer]

Who wants to be a bus driver. You can be placed in jail if a stupid kid who fell asleep on the bus missed his drop off

[BottomLinOp]

Your wasting your time in board meetings when talking to people who don’t live in reality sitting on the board

[MsCandyKush_YT]

I love how they don't relay the real message it's because of the vaccine mandate

[samanthab]

Transportation is the biggest part of a school districts budget. That woman was right, do your jobs!

[jb]

How bout you pay those drivers more money and I'm sure they'll be back school bus drivers always getting the short end of the stick smh

[RantRantJoe]

Amazon van drove by with the side door opened right when the reporter was talking about training and certification of new drivers.

[matthewschultz]

No one gives up a 100k a year bus driver salary, no one. I'm sure that's what they were paying, doubt it was only a 30k a year salary.

[marcmeinzer]

The origins of this problem lay with closing of neighborhood schools to which kids could walk, societal paranoia about virtually nonexistent child abduction, and tunnel vision of school boards seeking to eliminate school principals and office staff by shifting to larger centralized elementary schools. And then of course this is related to the epidemic of childhood obesity promoted by kids never walking anywhere anymore. This is key to why I quit voting yes on school levies decades ago.

[shohelihossain]

Not only school bus drivers short public bus drivers also short. Q 60 n Q18 bus also everyday late. Q18 bus everyday morning too much late.

[lawrenceoscar]

Don't worry I'm going to open are school bus company for the kids

[michaeledward]

Is fast tracking bus drivers certifications a good idea?

[davidtavares]

nj is the same way. ive been waitin for weeks for my certs. yet still nothing. dmv is slow.

[floridawilliams]

The young people don't wanted to work anymore which I don't know why specially if they have kids maybe they don't to work anymore is because they still getting the child taxes credit in some states they think they money going to keep get that money until next year which I don't so in else they extend my think if u get the child taxes credit then you should still be looking for work cause is easy how the government can take y'all unemployment they sure can take the child taxes credit away too

[davesonowski]

Where is the Democrat outrage none crickets

[shohelihossain]

My child everyday long time wait for Q 18 bus. Public transportation not safe for students.

[NevermoreNC]

Getting what you voted for, Democrats SMH!

[tudaddyify]

Parents can drive they kids to school but some of them wanna stay home chilling do your parents job