Henry County hiring 50 bus drivers to get children residence faster, cease working additional routes
Almost a month into the varsity 12 months, Henry County is trying to rent 50 bus drivers.
Earlier this month, Channel 2′s Christian Jennings advised you about a 5-year-old girl who rode around on a Henry County school bus for hours after falling asleep.
The varsity district has now advised Jennings that every one of their bus routes are lined, however they wish to rent dozens extra drivers to get higher pick-up and drop-off instances for college students and lower down on issues.
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Proper now, some drivers are having to move elementary schoolers after which come again for top schoolers after which a 3rd time for center schoolers, which is what the district needs to cease.
“Transportation is all the time a problem in the beginning of every faculty 12 months,” Henry County Colleges Director of Communications Kyle Sears stated. “We at the moment have about 40 potential drivers in varied phases of coaching, however we even have a variety of new drivers on the street. In our fleet, we added 56 new drivers this faculty 12 months.”
Jada Nichols and one other Dutchtown Elementary Faculty scholar fell asleep on the bus after faculty and ended up using on the bus for 3 hours with out the driving force realizing.
“Each time I get on the new bus, I simply go to sleep,” the 5-year-old stated.
That driver even picked up excessive schoolers on the identical bus and nonetheless didn’t discover the youthful kids.
“Actually checking the bus after every route is predicted of all drivers,” Sears stated.
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He stated that the driving force remains to be driving for Henry County.
“Anytime we now have a state of affairs the place possibly these expectations aren’t adopted, Transportation addresses with the worker and makes use of it as a instructing expertise for all drivers,” Sears stated.
After Channel 2 Motion Information’ first story, mother and father started calling our newsroom complaining about children being dropped off late within the afternoon and picked up early within the morning.
“Our drivers have gotten extra accustomed to the routes our colleges changing into extra environment friendly releasing buses at dismissal and each new driver we will get educated is taking additional runs off our present drivers,” Sears defined.
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