Some children who live on the southern tip of Vancouver Island in B.C. have missed school since a bus driver shortage forced the Sooke school district to cancel several routes recently.
For the past two weeks, at least one bus route in the district has been cancelled every day, with some days seeing two or three cancelled routes.
The Sooke school district encompasses Sooke, Langford, Colwood, and Metchosin and operates 39 routes per day. There are currently 44 drivers on staff.
Scott Stinson, Superintendent and CEO of the district said that it does not know exactly how many students have missed class due to the bus cancellations, but 4,000 students rely on the buses.
“If we have drivers
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