As we spring on towards summer and the end of another school year, consider how you honor your school bus drivers.
In North Carolina, Cleveland County Schools named Rita Maddox its driver of the month and scored a nice story in the local press. Said Maddox “I like driving a bus because I know that a nice smile and a hug every morning may be the only hugs some children get … I work at the best school in Cleveland County with the greatest staff- not to mention the students.”
Meanwhile, the retirement of a 40-year veteran behind the wheel, gets a story in a regional Arkansas paper. Wanda Pingry offered the paper (and other drivers) this wisdom:
“Kids aren’t perfect and I don’t expect them to be … But I do expect them not to be mean and hateful and to keep their voice down.”
What do you do for your drivers? How do you recognize long time drivers and school employees?
On another philosophical note, Bus No. 6 offers its own pearl from behind the wheel:
“… just the other day I realized that after a person has driven a bus for more than five years, that person starts to look and act just like their bus … The gentleman who drives Bus No. 54 talks a big game but that’s what it always is — just talk. His bus has a great heater, but all the heat stays up front … I drive Bus No. 6. It rattles a lot, makes a lot of noise, but it’s nothing really worth listening to. Need I say more?”
Any truth to it? Are you like your bus?
