A Virginia school district has reinstated one of its bus drivers who was forced to resign after she posted a video on social media showing the different, personalized handshakes she exchanges with each of the students she drives to school.

The video, in essence, sounds perfectly harmless and fun — a school bus driver showing how she cultivates rapport and forms relationships with each child she’s charged with transporting safely to school each day.

But for the Chesapeake Public Schools District, the clip violated a “zero tolerance” policy that prohibited teachers and staff members from posting children to their personal social media accounts.

And Jessica Flowers directly violated that policy when she recorded the students without their parents’ permission, according to a statement from

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