Video highlights posted on the School Bus Fleet website in 2015 included a clever parody about the job of transporting pupils and a profile of a veteran school bus driver.
Here are the details on our top two video picks, with links to view them.
Editors’ picks: videos of the year
Video highlights on the School Bus Fleet website in 2015 included a clever parody about transporting pupils and a profile of a veteran school bus driver.
by Nicole Schlosser and Thomas McMahon
December 29, 2015
One of our video picks for 2015 is a profile of veteran school bus driver Darrell “DJ” Johnson.
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School Bus Songs: ‘Someone Has To Do It’
School bus driver Jeremy Byler celebrates the challenges and the rewards of the job in this hilarious parody of Montell Jordan’s “This Is How We Do It.”
District spotlights beloved school bus driver
Darrell “DJ” Johnson has been transporting students for 31 years, including 16 for Bloomfield Hills (Mich.) Schools. In the district’s new “Heart of Bloomfield” series, Johnson hands out high-fives and hugs, and he points to the greatest reward of the job: “the love of those kids.”
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