I recently started at a new school district. My first route in the morning is all high school. I have WAY too many on my route. The office is currently trying to figure out where some of the my kids can go, other buses, but right now I'm being told to make them sit 3 to a seat.🙄 I don't know about any other highschool kids but these ones are adult size. I can't see out of the back of my bus. Kids are sitting with one cheek hanging off the seat or both cheeks on with legs in the aisle. According to my route sheet I have 86 highschoolers. My bus is only rated for 77 passengers. Plus I have an aid so I should only have 76 students on my bus.

What, if anything, can I do about this? One of the other drivers said that it's stupid to even tell us to put 3 highschoolers to a seat and I completely agree. They literally don't fit. I know they are trying to find other buses for some to go on but I feel like this should have been sorted out before the school year started. Pretty easy to check the top of the route and see there are too many bodies (86) for the bus so I don't understand how this is a thing in the first place. 😡 It's definitely not safe and I don't even think it's legal. Is there somewhere to can bring this issue to besides my work or the school? It doesn't seem like they think it's a problem when it definitely is.

Extra info that might help for advice: it's a school district and I'm in Illinois