N.S. parent calls for better school bus service as cancellations persist

A genitor successful Enfield, N.S., is voicing her vexation regarding predominant schoolhouse autobus cancellations successful the area.

Cindy Taylor, a health-care idiosyncratic successful Halifax, said she’s had to permission her workplace aboriginal connected respective occasions — driving much than 300 kilometres successful full this schoolhouse twelvemonth — to thrust her lad to and from schoolhouse erstwhile his autobus is cancelled.

“There’s radical that are choosing betwixt going to enactment themselves and getting their kid to schoolhouse truthful their kid tin get an acquisition oregon they’re getting docked wages due to the fact that they person to permission aboriginal each the time,” she said, adding that her lad has missed 5 days of schoolhouse this twelvemonth owed to cancellations.

Taylor said she’s been keeping way of the cancellations, noting that 56 buses person been cancelled truthful acold this schoolhouse year. She said determination were much cancellations successful December 2024 than determination were days of school.

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In a connection provided to Global News, the Chignecto Central Regional Centre for Education, which oversees busing successful the region, said the schoolhouse territory is experiencing a autobus operator shortage.

“We are actively trying to resoluteness the existent proscription challenges and guarantee that students person reliable and accordant autobus services,” the connection read.

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