Apple Bus Company Cleaning (8-20-20)

Apple Bus Company Cleaning (8-20-20)

Distrct have nearly one week left of summer vacation... as teachers, students and parents are preparing for this unconventional school year... so are the bus drivers.

Kq2's kilee thomas caught up with apple bus on how they plan to keep students safe going to and from school in the midst of covid-19.

The covid-19 pandemic has changed every aspect of school as we know it students get to school "it hasn't been as difficult to put the processes in place, we'll see when school starts."

Apple bus is hoping their covid-19 plans work as well in practice as they do on paperas they've got some pretty big changes in place "the biggest change that's happened with us is obviously the disinfecting of the buses and having the proper ppe for our drivers and monitors.

We also expect students to wear masks when they're on board, too."

Another change...adjusting pick up times students will be picked up 15 minutes earlier from their bus stop.

"that allowed us the extra time to be able to disinfect the buses between routes.

When we pick them up, they unboard at the school and our drivers then will disinfect the buses very quickly and then, of course, go pick up the next route until we finish the morning routes and they get disinfected again."

We know the st.

Joseph school district plans to practice social distancing work on a school bus?

"we're allowing two kids per seat then what we do is load them in the back first moving forward.

If they do live in the same household, we will allow three children per seat.

Then, of course when we unload, they will unload by rows starting towards the front and moving towards the back."

That new system will limit the amount of kids apple bus can pick up..but they say the virtual academy is helping cut back riders "it looks like with the numbers coming in, we're gonna be in pretty good shape."

The school district is requiring the buses use a seating chart.apple bus plans on trying to pair the same driver with the same daily route contact with school just around the corner hopes these modifications will keep them in business.

"maybe some nervousness.

This is something that nobody has come up against before so, absolutely there's gonna be some nerves.

We expect the worst and hope for the best."

If covid forces school to go fully online spring reevaluate what they'll do then kilee thomas kq2 news apple bus says by next wednesday -- parents and students can look at their bus pick up schedule on the sjsd website.

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