The Ottawa Student Transportation Authority sent an email to parents this week, telling them that school bus drivers are quitting due to harassment from parents.The information you need to know, sent directly to you: Download the CTV News App
"Our son is coming home anywhere between 20 to 40 minutes late after school, which is a long day for a Grade 2," Samantha says."It smelled like pure vomit," Samantha says."I could see substance that was kind of cleaned but should have smelled like cleaner not vomit. Like pure vomit." In the email to families, OSTA said three drivers have already quit due to"verbal abuse and aggression by parents.""First of all, you pay them pennies, and then they're expecting these drivers to keep all these kids safe. Get treated like garbage from the students because I find kids don't have any discipline anymore. And then they're trying to blame the parents that we're treating them poorly," Samantha says.
Another current school bus driver on the verge of quitting said, "I told these students if their behaviour doesn't change quickly, I am ready to quit driving these students to school. And when the bus doesn't show up one morning, they can tell their parents the driver quit cause of their behaviour."
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