NO EATING on the School Bus  

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I like school buses

I don't even permit water on the bus for elementary students. I don't want a student choking while trying to drink even with just water. Also elementary students tend to spill water all over the place.

A smoothie is a beverage, _not_ food

Love the skit! Great editing as well, Paul!

Highly sus😂

Welcome back to a new school year. 😊 I have had similar instances. We are given a limited amount of paid time to clean our busses (if we don’t have a long route, a quick sweep and maybe a wipe of some windows can fit into our allotted time slot, as part of our 15 minutes for our post-trip inspection). Beyond that, I can put a time card in for 30 minutes every two weeks to wash the bus exterior and mop the floor, clean interior windows, etc. Needless to say, I spend way more time than this, so quite a bit of the cleaning I do is unpaid and something like a spilled smoothie can take away significant amounts of my time to take care of my own household and family obligations. I often schedule appointments, do errands or shopping or start laundry or dinner in a slow cooker if possible between runs, then get home at 6, exhausted, 12 hours after my day started and 3 hours before bed. I need to finish making dinner, eat, clean up, connect with my family if possible, check for notices from school & get my kid ready for the next day/bedtime routine, lock up the house and get *myself ready for the next day before getting ready for bed myself. So then I need to find time within those three hours, to do extra cleaning and writing behaviour reports? If students just followed the rules on the bus (eating and otherwise) and could drop trash like used Kleenexes in the garbage can outside the school (on their way in from the bus to the front door) instead of on the floor of the bus, it would make a huge difference. It really is a matter of respect. In addition to safety, as you mentioned, and the no eating or drinking rule is therefore even legislated. Drivers don’t *just make up the rules for their own convenience. How much of an issue is it if someone notices and tells me a child is choking, I have to find a safe place to pull over out of traffic, secure the bus, do first aid and call an ambulance to check the child afterwards, calling dispatch to inform parents to pick up their kids or send another driver to get the other kids off my bus if possible, before getting everyone else to school an hour late-assuming the choking child is actually ok-and writing up the report. Maybe just get up 15 minutes earlier to finish breakfast, or have a quick granola bar or something in the afternoon while getting ready for the bus, to tide you over until you get home and can eat more. 🙏 End of pet peeve rant, lol. I do have to admit it is usually waaaaay better on my current special needs run than it was on past general public school runs. 💕 Have a wonderful, safe, relaxed, and squeaky-clean year, everyone. 😊