Show me 100 of anything and I'm going to like some better than others. That goes for both school bus drivers and for bicycle riders. Some are just better at what they do than others.

Relative to passenger management. A certified middle school teacher probably averages around 25 students. The largest school busses have an 84 student capacity and the driver is facing the wrong way and also has to deal with all of the traffic issues that confront everybody else. If you think that's an easy task, pretty much every single school district is looking for drivers.

I once drove a charter including a parent chaperone. While negotiating I-64 traffic in St Louis the gentleman asked how much I was paid. I told him our union scale. He remarked that I was over paid. Just then, 2 boys in the back of the bus stood up so I grabbed my intercom mic. and told them to sit down. The very next words out of his mouth were "I couldn't do your job." End of discussion.