The Rome City School District will return to in-person learning with enough bus drivers by next Tuesday, according to the district’s superintendent. The district was forced to transition to remote learning for its students last week, due to a COVID-19 breakout that severely limited transportation services.
A recent survey was released to district-wide parents to try to gauge parent ability to transport their own children, in case the district experiences another driver shortage, and to avoid having to transition to remote learning again. While that data is not yet available, the superintendent says only 65% of the recipients responded to the survey.
Regardless, that 65% has determined that with the drivers coming out of quarantine, alongside families that can provide their own transportation, the district will only be down two busses next week.
The superintendent says that to reconfigure bus routes and change anything else would take at least three weeks.
