Kottke’s Bus Company

Parents please fight to get this bus company out of our schools and call into the school transportation department for every late pickup/​drop off, every rude bus driver, and no show buses. Yesterday my daughter’s bus never show up. At 2pm I finally get a call back from the Anoka Hennepin district transportation director stating the bus driver miss 3 stops on his route missing a whole street. How if you have GPS units does this happen and all I got was sorry the bus didn’t pick up but that’s why we tell parents to have a backup plan. Excuse me? The bus drivers themselves are lazy, unfriendly and down right rude to not just kids but parents. I wave and smile every morning to the driver and he frowns and occasionally nods his head. My daughter has told me he’s told kids to shut up, using those words. Called a kid deaf for not being able to hear him and constantly yells at the kids for just being kids (meaning they are following bus rules). My daughter hates taking the bus and this isn’t due to the kids but a grown men as both the am and pm drivers are the same. They hire anyone with a clean background check as long as they are a holes to kids.

This bus company is HORRIBLE! Bus service is anywhere from 12 – 40 minutes late for ELEMENTARY school students! Last week the bus came 20 minutes late from the opposite direction of it’s route. It turned the corner and came within inches of running over a child. When I called the Kottke’s Safety Department, I was told it was a substitute bus driver and that they would check into it & call me back. I never received a call. HORRIBLE SERVICE! If you want your kids to be safe getting to & from school — DRIVE THEM!!!
The school district should investigate this DANGEROUS BUS COMPANY!