In Orange County, leaders there said they had no big issues Wednesday morning but moving forward, drivers picking up high school students will have to do double routes in the morning. They are the first person our children see in the morning as it relates to school and the last person in the afternoon,” Pace said. “We are so grateful to see the smiles on our bus drivers this morning. Debra Pace was there to greet bus drivers as they drove off to pick up students. The district is still in need of hiring about 30 more bus drivers. “The only thing I heard on the radio so far we had one high school student that got off the wrong high school and that we were taking him back to the correct high school so if that’s all we have to deal with today, we are going to be in really good shape,” said Arby Creach, director of transportation services. – It was a smooth start on the first day of school at the school bus depot in Osceola County.ĭespite having nearly a dozen bus drivers call out sick, transportation official said students made it to class without a bump in the road on Wednesday.
