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[email protected] SEAHOLM HIGH SCHOOL’S STUDENT VOICE BPS bus drivers How Do We Prevent This? offered positions with new company Privatization Update Cameron Schea Staff Writer The likelihood of seeing your favorite BPS bus driver return to the front seat the district next year has greatly increased. Durham, the private company contracted to supply transportation services, has recently offered the current drivers a position with the new division for the Birmingham District. “Representatives for Durham have met with several bus drivers offering us positions as drivers with the new company, however, we will need to go through the same interviewing process as everyone else,” Sophia Shattuck, a long time bus driver for the district, told the Highlander. “Durham promises to keep our pay the same, but we would need to pay for our own benefits [beyond the employed driver].” In addition, If Durham hires 51% of current Officials investigate what’s left of a blue Dodge Ram at the scene of an April 8th accident on Gratiot Avenue in Chesterfield Township. The accident drivers, they would be forced to unionize. killed three L’Anse Creuse students and injured two other motorists.