Buses running on schedule in Williamsburg County
KINGSTREE — School buses throughout the Williamsburg County School District were running as normal this morning according to administrators at each distinct school.
Drivers are meeting with district officials at 9a.m. this morning to discuss concerns before a strike or any other action was taken. Thte meeting is closed to the public. Officials with the district could not be reached for comment before the meeting began.
Seventeen drivers did not make their scheduled pick-ups at three district schools Friday, leaving 185 students stranded for several hours. A district official said at the time that the missed pick-ups could be the start of a bus drivers strike in response to what drivers claimed was a cut in pay following the district’s board of trustees making changes to the overtime policy. Apparent abuses of the old policy cost the district $500,000 last year according to a report given board members in October.
The board subsequently put the district’s transportation director, Willie McKnight, on administrative leave as a result of the report.
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Those drivers should have been fired for leaving all those students stranded.
There is NO excuse for that.
And the ‘apparent abuses’ in the old overtime policy should be looked into and some of that half million should be ‘clawed back’ and they should be fired for that too.
If this was a business instead of a government entitlement (busing) funded with taxes (other peoples money) they would not forgive abuses that result in $500.000 of fraud.
Now those same drivers who apparently abused overtime pay (to the tune of $500,000) think they are justified by leaving students stranded!
Un-believable!
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