Bus on Murch field trip crashes, kids hurt, bus driver charged with DUI

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Schools now have to check the bus drivers license upon their arrival to see if the credentials are valid or not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Schools now have to check the bus drivers license upon their arrival to see if the credentials are valid or not.

I would think that this could be something approved through DDOT, like a CDL with a School Bus transport endorsement.

This is so sad, but fortunately no one was hurt.

I think this may usher in a much needed check and balance in this industry.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I see the great wisdom now in our walking field trip to a local church “pumpkin patch” in town!

the Cox Farm fieldtrip is really miserable. As is the apple picking field trip.

People get stuck on these as “traditions” instead of realizing that kids would have just as much fun taking the Metro bus to the zoo.

Ha! My 9th grader at Jackson-Reed did just that today. She's sending me pics and having a blast.

Honestly I don't know which one I would be more nervous about. Lot of violence on Metro lately. Someone's kid could easily get attacked by random teen hoodlums or a mentally ill person

Kids take the metro every day, twice a day.

Kids also take school buses everyday…not sure what your point is? 44 kindergartners with 4 adults is not the same as some teens or younger kids with their parents

DCPS kids don’t take school buses. They take Metro.

YOUR kids don’t take school buses. You know that DCPS and OSSE have to legally provide school bus service to some students, right?

OSSE buses are government employees and not contractors. They generally don't do field trips unless special needs students are the primary children on the bus.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Schools now have to check the bus drivers license upon their arrival to see if the credentials are valid or not.

I would think that this could be something approved through DDOT, like a CDL with a School Bus transport endorsement.

This is so sad, but fortunately no one was hurt.

I think this may usher in a much needed check and balance in this industry.

That's true.

I am not certain how equipped schools are to manage credentials from bus drivers. Seems like there should be a more organized way of analyzing this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Schools now have to check the bus drivers license upon their arrival to see if the credentials are valid or not.

I would think that this could be something approved through DDOT, like a CDL with a School Bus transport endorsement.

This is so sad, but fortunately no one was hurt.

I think this may usher in a much needed check and balance in this industry.

That's true.

I am not certain how equipped schools are to manage credentials from bus drivers. Seems like there should be a more organized way of analyzing this.

How is an individual school supposed to do this?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Schools now have to check the bus drivers license upon their arrival to see if the credentials are valid or not.

I would think that this could be something approved through DDOT, like a CDL with a School Bus transport endorsement.

This is so sad, but fortunately no one was hurt.

I think this may usher in a much needed check and balance in this industry.

That's true.

I am not certain how equipped schools are to manage credentials from bus drivers. Seems like there should be a more organized way of analyzing this.

How is an individual school supposed to do this?

Check with drivers the day of the trip and ask to see drivers licenses, I'm assuming. Not unless schools create their own electronic system of driver records for field trips.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Schools now have to check the bus drivers license upon their arrival to see if the credentials are valid or not.

I would think that this could be something approved through DDOT, like a CDL with a School Bus transport endorsement.

This is so sad, but fortunately no one was hurt.

I think this may usher in a much needed check and balance in this industry.

That's true.

I am not certain how equipped schools are to manage credentials from bus drivers. Seems like there should be a more organized way of analyzing this.

How is an individual school supposed to do this?

Check with drivers the day of the trip and ask to see drivers licenses, I'm assuming. Not unless schools create their own electronic system of driver records for field trips.

So let’s make the principals or teachers the people with primary liability? Great.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I see the great wisdom now in our walking field trip to a local church “pumpkin patch” in town!

the Cox Farm fieldtrip is really miserable. As is the apple picking field trip.

People get stuck on these as “traditions” instead of realizing that kids would have just as much fun taking the Metro bus to the zoo.

Ha! My 9th grader at Jackson-Reed did just that today. She's sending me pics and having a blast.

Honestly I don't know which one I would be more nervous about. Lot of violence on Metro lately. Someone's kid could easily get attacked by random teen hoodlums or a mentally ill person

Kids take the metro every day, twice a day.

Kids also take school buses everyday…not sure what your point is? 44 kindergartners with 4 adults is not the same as some teens or younger kids with their parents

DCPS kids don’t take school buses. They take Metro.

YOUR kids don’t take school buses. You know that DCPS and OSSE have to legally provide school bus service to some students, right?

OSSE buses are government employees and not contractors. They generally don't do field trips unless special needs students are the primary children on the bus.

That’s not what the PP was talking about. PP believed that students only get to school via Metro not school bus.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I see the great wisdom now in our walking field trip to a local church “pumpkin patch” in town!

the Cox Farm fieldtrip is really miserable. As is the apple picking field trip.

People get stuck on these as “traditions” instead of realizing that kids would have just as much fun taking the Metro bus to the zoo.

Ha! My 9th grader at Jackson-Reed did just that today. She's sending me pics and having a blast.

Honestly I don't know which one I would be more nervous about. Lot of violence on Metro lately. Someone's kid could easily get attacked by random teen hoodlums or a mentally ill person

Kids take the metro every day, twice a day.

Kids also take school buses everyday…not sure what your point is? 44 kindergartners with 4 adults is not the same as some teens or younger kids with their parents

DCPS kids don’t take school buses. They take Metro.

YOUR kids don’t take school buses. You know that DCPS and OSSE have to legally provide school bus service to some students, right?

OSSE buses are government employees and not contractors. They generally don't do field trips unless special needs students are the primary children on the bus.

That’s not what the PP was talking about. PP believed that students only get to school via Metro not school bus.

About 3200 (out of 90k?) get to school using school buses. Any other student on a bus is on a metro bus.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Schools now have to check the bus drivers license upon their arrival to see if the credentials are valid or not.

I would think that this could be something approved through DDOT, like a CDL with a School Bus transport endorsement.

This is so sad, but fortunately no one was hurt.

I think this may usher in a much needed check and balance in this industry.

That's true.

I am not certain how equipped schools are to manage credentials from bus drivers. Seems like there should be a more organized way of analyzing this.

How is an individual school supposed to do this?

Check with drivers the day of the trip and ask to see drivers licenses, I'm assuming. Not unless schools create their own electronic system of driver records for field trips.

Sort of ridiculous to expect individual school admin to check licenses and know if a license has been suspended. It’s not as if the actual license has a big red x on it. How would they know?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Schools now have to check the bus drivers license upon their arrival to see if the credentials are valid or not.

I would think that this could be something approved through DDOT, like a CDL with a School Bus transport endorsement.

This is so sad, but fortunately no one was hurt.

I think this may usher in a much needed check and balance in this industry.

That's true.

I am not certain how equipped schools are to manage credentials from bus drivers. Seems like there should be a more organized way of analyzing this.

How is an individual school supposed to do this?

Check with drivers the day of the trip and ask to see drivers licenses, I'm assuming. Not unless schools create their own electronic system of driver records for field trips.

So let’s make the principals or teachers the people with primary liability? Great.

This is messed up. No way staff should be the people responsible for this.

[Anonymous]

We just heard from our DCPS ES that a field trip scheduled for tomorrow will be postponed due to a new bus approval process that was just put into place by DCPS. Sounds like more than just the school checking licenses when the busses arrive?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Schools now have to check the bus drivers license upon their arrival to see if the credentials are valid or not.

I would think that this could be something approved through DDOT, like a CDL with a School Bus transport endorsement.

This is so sad, but fortunately no one was hurt.

I think this may usher in a much needed check and balance in this industry.

That's true.

I am not certain how equipped schools are to manage credentials from bus drivers. Seems like there should be a more organized way of analyzing this.

How is an individual school supposed to do this?

Check with drivers the day of the trip and ask to see drivers licenses, I'm assuming. Not unless schools create their own electronic system of driver records for field trips.

So let’s make the principals or teachers the people with primary liability? Great.

This is messed up. No way staff should be the people responsible for this.

I hope this is at least coupled with some responsibility on the part of the DCPS central office to do diligence on a company before making them an approved/preferred vendor. This company had obviously been having problems for years that should have been apparent with some very basic vetting.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Schools now have to check the bus drivers license upon their arrival to see if the credentials are valid or not.

I would think that this could be something approved through DDOT, like a CDL with a School Bus transport endorsement.

This is so sad, but fortunately no one was hurt.

I think this may usher in a much needed check and balance in this industry.

That's true.

I am not certain how equipped schools are to manage credentials from bus drivers. Seems like there should be a more organized way of analyzing this.

How is an individual school supposed to do this?

Check with drivers the day of the trip and ask to see drivers licenses, I'm assuming. Not unless schools create their own electronic system of driver records for field trips.

So let’s make the principals or teachers the people with primary liability? Great.

This is messed up. No way staff should be the people responsible for this.

I hope this is at least coupled with some responsibility on the part of the DCPS central office to do diligence on a company before making them an approved/preferred vendor. This company had obviously been having problems for years that should have been apparent with some very basic vetting.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Schools now have to check the bus drivers license upon their arrival to see if the credentials are valid or not.

I would think that this could be something approved through DDOT, like a CDL with a School Bus transport endorsement.

This is so sad, but fortunately no one was hurt.

I think this may usher in a much needed check and balance in this industry.

That's true.

I am not certain how equipped schools are to manage credentials from bus drivers. Seems like there should be a more organized way of analyzing this.

How is an individual school supposed to do this?

Check with drivers the day of the trip and ask to see drivers licenses, I'm assuming. Not unless schools create their own electronic system of driver records for field trips.

So let’s make the principals or teachers the people with primary liability? Great.

This is messed up. No way staff should be the people responsible for this.

I hope this is at least coupled with some responsibility on the part of the DCPS central office to do diligence on a company before making them an approved/preferred vendor. This company had obviously been having problems for years that should have been apparent with some very basic vetting.

+1

Betcha it will soon emerge that the "preferred vendor" is somebody's friend or relative...