While most kids give the first day of school a passing grade, the same cannot be said for parents scrambling to find last-minute transportation arrangements after school bus routes were cancelled because of an ongoing driver shortage.
The weather says summer, but the bell has rung and the break is over as more than 110,000 students, across the city mark a return to school.
"I'm excited to meet new friends and see my teachers," she says. "I have a new pencil case and a new lunch box and a new backpack and a new keychain." But a labour shortage and financial shortfall means the Ottawa Student Transportation Authority had to cancel 36 bus routes, leaving thousands of students with no ride."We have 450 kids at our school, South Carleton High School, that are impacted by this. There are 10 buses that are cancelled," says Hero Van Harten, whose son is one of those kids.
"It has felt unreasonable to me that my child should switch schools [to OCSB which has a high school in Stittsville] or my child should have to look at online learning," she says. "This needs to be resolved. It shouldn't be left to the parents to have to provide this kind of emergency transportation for their children. It is not a tenable situation for most parents. Bosses are not going to be this flexible with parents forever.
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