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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Schools now have to check the bus drivers license upon their arrival to see if the credentials are valid or not. [/quote]

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. [/quote]

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. [/quote]

How is an individual school supposed to do this?[/quote]

DCPS teacher here. I suspect that individual schools have had bad experiences with this company and stopped using them. Problem is that information probably never flowed up to whoever anonymous person picks these companies. There is no feedback loop. But making a voluntary online form - yet another task teachers have zero time for - wouldn’t be effective enough either. Central office needs to reach out and email and call the field trip coordinator to see how it went. We’re asked for feedback on a million other, non life’s-in-someone’s-hands issues.

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.[/quote]

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

This is messed up. No way staff should be the people responsible for this.[/quote]

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.[/quote][/quote]

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