Archive for March, 2016

How often are school buses checked for safety and mechanical issues. I witnessed a bus on Route 146, which while stopped at a red light and in motion, had a door wide open.

A.  Every bus is on a 56-day, preventative maintenance schedule. Every day, before the bus leaves the bus compound, the school bus drivers make a pre-trip inspection. Unfortunately, once in a while things  do go wrong on the roadway. In this particular case, there were no children onboard and the bus was close enough to the […]

If a child accidentally spills something in the cafeteria whose responsibility is it to clean up the mess? The child or a cafeteria staff employee?

A. Probably depends on the situation.