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> found that 88 percent of those professions were unlicensed in at least one state, suggesting that the system is fairly arbitrary. One of the occupations unde

• dnissley 4y ago
  "Teacher" and "school bus driver" seem pretty unreasonable to require licenses for because teachers also have degree requirements and bus drivers also have special drivers license requirements, making extra licenses rather redundant.
  • disjunct 4y ago
    In my state school bus drivers need to have a CDL and a state certification for school buses. That same CDL allows you to drive food trucks, garbage trucks, and long-haul cargo. The major difference between those jobs and bus driving is working with kids. That doesn't seem redundant to me. Whether that should be done via a state cert or in job training is another question, though.