I am a bus driver. I have the privileged position of taking tomorrow’s leaders to school. Not being in the educational system for decades, I am not versed in the leaps and bounds that schools have become in educating children these days. Today, I learned…
I am a school bus driver. As such, I often overhear interesting conversations. Last week, my bus sounded like a bunch of chickens, then there was the marriage idea of a boy to a chicken nugget, and now this. My bus was filled with kids…
I am a school bus driver. I cannot, nor will I, pretend to understand the educational system involved in the lives of the children I drive daily. I grow more and more perplexed by the obsession with chickens on my bus. My route has me…
Wow! The things kids talk about on the bus! I am a school bus driver, and I have the privilege of driving these future leaders of our society to school and back every day. I find the bus most peaceful when the children are chatting…
Being a school bus driver is a great job. It is a rewarding experience transporting these future leaders of our society safely to school and back. As a spare bus driver, I have learned that each school has its own method of loading and unloading…
Kids talking to one another must speak up to be heard over the other kids talking to each other. This chatter, I call the quiet murmurations of the bus, even though it can get quite loud. There is a peacefulness to it, and when I…
As a bus driver, I have learned some fantastic and exciting things spoken by the kids behind me. The most recent conversation between two students might have caused irreparable harm to the belief in Santa Claus. I drive to three schools. All three schools share…
The things that I can learn as a school bus driver are amazing. It has been over 30 years since I have been a student in the educational system, and there have been some stunning and fascinating changes in that time. So when the children…
We love museums. Most of what we visit on a road trip would be classified as a museum: art, science, history, heritage and more. So when I heard of North American Reciprocal Museums, I had to join. Membership includes free access to over a thousand…
