My Maine School Bus Driver


Book Description

We all have a favorite teacher, but do you have a favorite bus driver? My Maine School Bus Driver follows Mr. Gosselin as he drives along the roads of a small Maine coastal town. He points out animals on the route, makes a pet of a spider that surprised students and tells jokes to uproarious laughter--or groans. This story of a bus driver on his route will help students realize that drivers are people too and that each of us has a responsibility to help keep the bus and its riders safe.




My Maine School Bus Driver


Book Description

We all have a favorite teacher, but do you have a favorite bus driver? My Maine School Bus Driver follows Mr. Gosselin as he drives along the roads of a small coastal town in Maine. He points out animals on the route, makes a pet of a spider that surprised students and tells jokes to uproarious laughter-or groans. This story of a bus driver on his route will help students realize that drivers are people too and that each of us has a responsibility to help keep the bus and its riders safe.




School Bus Drivers


Book Description

Every morning and afternoon, kids get on the school bus. The bus driver drives them to school and then takes them home. They follow the same route every day and the driver makes sure the kids are safe and the bus is clean and running well.




Understanding The Complex Reality Of The School Bus Driver's Job


Book Description

ROMAN BLAISE BLAISE “Understanding the Complex Reality of the SCHOOL BUS DRIVER’S JOB” is the testimony of a school bus driver named Roman Blaise. Throughout the school year, trying to please everyone and answer every question; screaming at the students for their safety on the bus, also smiling, playing and even dancing for them. When necessary, requiring order out of troublemakers, caution out of harassment of other drivers, fairness out of indifference. This book contains important tools of prevention, asks for more children’s understanding, talks about what Roman Blaise has seen and heard, raises various problems encountered by school bus drivers, laments the loss of a colleague. It also questions the system of things and is waiting for answers, forces drivers to learn to adapt to students, raises the barrier of communication between immigrant drivers and students, and tests the driver’s conscience. It ends the last school day with the tears of a black kindergartener who will miss forever the affection of his dear white female teacher. Everyone endowed with the passion to know, should reserve in his libray a space for this fascinating book, “Understanding the Complex Reality of the SCHOOL BUS DRIVER’S JOB”. ROMAN




Lessons from the Driver's Seat_Wanda Bishop


Book Description

DID YOU KNOW THAT school busing is America’s largest transit system? According to the American School Bus Council, 26 million students ride a school bus every day. School bus drivers across the country are entrusted with the care and safety of more than 25 million children as they are transported to and from school and school-related activities. School buses provide 10 billion annual student rides. Each school bus carries fifty to sixty-five passengers per route, per school. Most drivers have three daily pickup routes in the morning and afternoons. The first route picks up elementary school children, the second route picks up middle school children, and the third route picks up high schoolers.




Teddy Bears to Dangerous Missions


Book Description

Come aboard as the author takes you from his early childhood living in Miami before and during WWII to his years hopping among several grammar schools in the eastern United States. He served almost eight years in the US Navy Submarine Service. His description of life on long isolated sixty- to seventy-two-day deterrent Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) submarine patrols will give you an appreciation for the sacrifices still being made today by our US Navy Silent Service warriors. This autobiographical journey concludes with the author's transition to civilian life and a successful career living in the Washington, DC, area raising a family. The book is filled with over a hundred images illustrating the narrative. This is a must read for any military veteran or history buff.




School Bus Wisdom


Book Description

The purpose of this Book, "SCHOOL BUS WISDOM," is to aid the new school bus driver as well as the seasoned school bus driver in keeping their attitude, skills, safety performance and their interaction with students positive, professional and sharp. Every School Bus driver who transports a part of that precious cargo of 24 million students to and from schools across this vast nation every day, of each school year, will benefit from this book.




The Yellow School Bus Driver's Manual


Book Description

After I arrived in Warsaw, my niece Danielle Gamble was instrumental in getting me a job in the transportation department of the school district as a bus driver. Driving a school bus full of kids of all ages and surviving all the situations deemed this manual "necessary." Kids will be kids, and they all are when they ride the school bus.




School Bus Drivers


Book Description

An introduction to the job of a school bus driver that examines the tasks that they perform, the tools that they use, and the training required to be a successful school bus driver.




The Life of a School Bus Driver


Book Description

Sometime through, no fault of the children, the craziest things can happen to a bus driver. Who could ever imagine that a wild turkey would come crashing through the window, all cut up and bloody still flapping its wings all over the bus? It's a miracle the driver did not crash the bus! She was so shaken by the experience that she could no longer work the rest of the day... The Life of a School Bus Driver is a first hand account discussing and illustrating the many experiences encountered during a life time of public service as a School Bus Driver.