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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just heard that the third bus that came to pick up the kids was not operational and NONE of the drivers had a CDL license. DCPS heads need to roll. [b]Who hired these fools?[/b][/quote]

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If the school organized the trip themselves, they pick the company they hire for bus service. So Murch very well could have picked the company. [/quote]

Not how it works. DCPS provided the buses. [/quote]

The news said that DCPS provided the buses. When my kid was at Murch the school never hired buses directly either.[/quote]

Is Murch not DCPS? But of course however things work at Murch is obviously how it works everywhere else in DCPS.

Either way, it was a contractor and the contractor is paid to provide licensed drivers. Unless DCPS had prior knowledge that there were unlicensed drivers or those with prior DUIs, it’s on the contractor. Anytime I’ve hired contractors I’ve not asked to see the license and driving record of the workers. Maybe others do, but in my area of work it’s not standard. It’s literally why we hire contractors to do things rather than hire them as employees. [/quote]

The way it usually works in DCPS for field trips is that the school orders the bus from a list of DCPS approved vendors. [/quote]

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