Very frustrated bureaucrat, undoubtedly wrestling with the fact that Mississippi is just about the worst state for education budget:

[link:http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2017/08/11/mississippi-hot-school-bus-tirade/558686001/|

state for education. Here in Texas we honestly have a saying, "thank God for Mississippi".

IOW, since only Mississippi saves Texas from being at the very bottom, thank God for Mississippi.

grateful for being saved from last position by MS.

I unfortunately live in Hancock Co. these people are all booger eating morons. You can't go one day with out your blood pressure skyrocketing becasue of the shit they say. "Never will be 70◦ degrees" ... so they keep the buses at 105 degrees.

The Ladner name is HUGE in this area, they are into every part of "government" and businesses, I guess they gave the dumbass brother needed a job so they made him head bus driver.

It's is scary as hell down here.

It doesn't say how hot it actually was on the bus, for example. I guess it had some AC because the adult was talking about keeping the windows closed to utilize it, but I don't feel as if I'm getting the whole story here.

Why are they on a school bus in the beginning of August, anyway?

School started back August 4th. The AC in the front of the bus works fine but not in the back. Parents had asked that the ac be turned off so windows could go down but driver refused. Ac works fine by her. The temperatures on the buses get so high because of how long it takes to load them. This particular bus picks up at the middle school which takes between 15/20 minutes then it pulls over to the school next door, parks, turns off the bus and waits for that school to let out. Then those kids have to load up. So bus sits about 30 plus minutes off between loading and waiting. During that time no windows are allowed to go down. All that time with 30/40 kids just sitting with no ac or windows down its gets extremely hot in there! If they would just let the kids put the windows down it wouldn't be as bad.

Yet another reason not to start school so early......

The kids I talk to should never stop.

Here in New York, school doesn't start until the first week of September. In my district, classes start September 7th.