“The schools have also done a wonderful job working directly with parents on the afternoon changes in transportation that have resulted in the bus runs not occurring.”ĭiCorpo explained in the November board meeting that staff had been told not to mark students tardy if they were arriving late by car with a parent due to the change-ups in routes. “We're doing the best we can to get the messaging out so that parents can make decisions,” DiCorpo said.īut some parents have voiced their frustration online. New Milford parents are now intimately familiar with the bus driver shortage, and post about it in local Facebook groups. Their posts show how abrupt schedule changes impact their lives- with some having to unexpectedly alter transportation plans for their children on short notice. “Why is it always bus 12?” one man asked in a local New Milford Facebook page on Dec. Had to take my daughter to school and then go home and get the other one ready for her bus,” he commented further down on the post. “It was also bus 27,” another parent commented.
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“So, I had to drop off my oldest then I dropped my youngest at preschool.”Ī woman responded on the thread saying that “us drivers are doing multiple runs. We are doing the best we can!” Several parents also voiced their support and love for the drivers who drove their kids each morning and afternoon. We reviewed hundreds of pages of police reports, criminal case filings and court data related to intimate partner violence in Connecticut.
The bus driver shortage is a local as well as national issue, felt by districts across the country. In Connecticut, a COVID-19 vaccine mandate may have also played a role in the loss of a few drivers. However, a walk-out in the Danbury area this fall over the mandate yielded only a handful of missing drivers.
This fall, the general manager for All-Star Transportation in Waterbury, told a local news station that it was the “worst shortage we’ve ever experienced” and that they were down to about 15 to 20 percent of their drivers.