I don’t live in Lakewood and don’t know the dynamics of the contract between the schools, the school districs, the state governement, the bus company and the students who get bussed. Who entered into a contract with whom to provide bussing on “school days”? Who agreed to those terms and who is the beneficiary of those terms? Who hired the drivers? Under what terms? Did the terms of the contract change since inception that suddenly people are surprised?
Based on what people are writing here, seems that if drivers have a beef with anyone, it is their emploers who entered into a contract at terms they the drivers, don’t like. There is no chillul hashem here (unless a jew owns the bus company, was aware of these terms and neglected to tell the drivers).