Eps 2: Henry gets mad at his bus driver when he tells him his brain is not a computer
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Louis Miles
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Chesterfield County Public Schools Superintendent Merv Daugherty stressed the important role of bus drivers - Merv Daugherty said their jobs go beyond providing transportation. In his retirement, Mike Mason felt the tug of helping out when he saw the school bus drivers short. Despite an impressive resume, Mike Mason was unqualified for the job immediately as a school bus driver. Now, he takes students to school each morning and every afternoon on the yellow school bus.
He is friends with Bart sometimes, even though they are so much older, and dreams about starting his own rock group so that he can become famous, all the while getting into trouble on school buses, time after time. The struggles of these students are what eventually pushed Mike Mason to come out of retirement and drive the school bus. While driving a school bus has been deeply satisfying to Mike Mason, it has not been without challenges. After all, driving students to and from school, Mason says, is much more than just driving the big yellow bus.
The idea came to Mike Mason this January, when he saw a local news article about a dire need for school bus drivers. The Russian kid at the front was telling me about his days as a commercial driver, hauling fruits.
After his school bus dropped a young pupil at the wrong stop, that student from Omaha Public Schools, who was walking, found my home, rang my doorbell. The young student knew that her ex-next-door neighbor lived here, so she talked to the ringing bell and asked for help.
Madison Bilsten said the young student and his family moved, but remembers the street where they lived, and Madisons van. 1 When Quincis father told Madison Bilsten that he had seen the young student in his van, he said, I thought they were lost. He once told principal Skinner he had crashed the school bus fifteen times with no deaths .
Otto does not appear to respect rules of the road, though he did once tell Bart that state laws prohibited him from deliberately crashing the bus. Ottos competency to operate any type of vehicle, much less a school bus, is extremely doubtful, yet he is the character who is more often than not portrayed driving any kind of bus or coach on the show. Based on the fact that he has a gun on board his bus, which is forced out of his possession by Dean Skinner during suspension, Otto is either a legally registered gun owner, or, at least, is allowed to possess one by the School as part of his duties as bus driver.
In the original books, Phoebes parents Terese are never mentioned or seen, implying she was raised by her grandparents . Dorothy Annes surname is never mentioned in either books or shows; however, in the follow-up series, The Magic School Bus Rides Again, it is mentioned that her surname is Hudson. Bossie originally appeared in a 1997 book, in which she is stated to have attended a different school, however, on the show, she attended another classroom rather than another school.
Ms. Frizzles seems very attached to the bus, almost like she has a nostalgic bond with it. Liz seems jealous when the bus gets more attention than her. On another bus trip, Ms. Freezes the producers out of it. Production Managers In the fictitious phone-in segment at the end of the show, the various characters answer questions asked by the viewers.
Employers are under no obligation to keep or rehire drivers, and school officials have said that many are. To lure potential drivers, school bus companies have begun offering free training and signing bonuses, and a number of districts, including Baltimore City Public Schools, are offering to pay parents for bringing their children to school. Mike Martin--executive director of the National Pupil Transportation Association, a national umbrella group for local school transportation directors and private contractors--said it strongly discourages drivers from taking the buses home.