{"id":7559,"date":"2020-09-11T13:45:48","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T18:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/?p=7559"},"modified":"2020-09-11T13:46:28","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T18:46:28","slug":"2020-21-bus-riders-health-and-safety-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/2020-21-bus-riders-health-and-safety-update\/","title":{"rendered":"2020-21 Bus Riders: Health and Safety Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"4638\" height=\"3072\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/shutterstock_271198973-4638x3072.jpg\" alt=\"School Bus\" class=\"wp-image-7544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/shutterstock_271198973-4638x3072.jpg 4638w, https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/shutterstock_271198973-450x298.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/shutterstock_271198973-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/shutterstock_271198973-1536x1017.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/shutterstock_271198973-2048x1356.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/shutterstock_271198973-760x503.jpg 760w, https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/shutterstock_271198973-518x343.jpg 518w, https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/shutterstock_271198973-250x166.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/shutterstock_271198973-82x54.jpg 82w, https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/shutterstock_271198973-600x397.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/shutterstock_271198973-550x364.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4638px) 100vw, 4638px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>With the start of face-to-face instruction in BISD&nbsp;on Sept. 8,&nbsp;parents are encouraged to take and pick up their child(ren) at&nbsp;school each day.&nbsp;If parents are unable to transport&nbsp;their&nbsp;child(ren)&nbsp;to school,&nbsp;and they qualify for bus transportation,&nbsp;the District&nbsp;does provide&nbsp;bus&nbsp;transportation.&nbsp;However, BISD&nbsp;wants parents&nbsp;to&nbsp;understand&nbsp;that&nbsp;social distancing&nbsp;may&nbsp;<strong>NOT<\/strong>&nbsp;always&nbsp;be&nbsp;possible&nbsp;for those&nbsp;riding&nbsp;the bus.&nbsp;On routes&nbsp;where social distancing is not possible, there&nbsp;will be&nbsp;two students per seat&nbsp;in order to&nbsp;be able to&nbsp;run&nbsp;the bus routes.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since social distancing&nbsp;will&nbsp;not always be possible, BISD will require&nbsp;<strong>ALL<\/strong>&nbsp;riders to wear a cloth or paper mask&nbsp;while on the bus; when possible,&nbsp;load the bus from back to front&nbsp;and&nbsp;unload the bus from front to back;&nbsp;and leave&nbsp;numerous&nbsp;windows open&nbsp;to help circulate clean air throughout the bus.&nbsp;These safety measures&nbsp;will be followed every day, along with regular cleaning of the bus,&nbsp;to help keep&nbsp;students and staff&nbsp;safe.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have questions, please contact the Transportation Department at 817-547-5830.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the start of face-to-face instruction in BISD&nbsp;on Sept. 8,&nbsp;parents are encouraged to take and pick up their child(ren) at&nbsp;school each day.&nbsp;If parents are unable to transport&nbsp;their&nbsp;child(ren)&nbsp;to school,&nbsp;and they qualify for bus transportation,&nbsp;the District&nbsp;does provide&nbsp;bus&nbsp;transportation.&nbsp;However, BISD&nbsp;wants parents&nbsp;to&nbsp;understand&nbsp;that&nbsp;social distancing&nbsp;may&nbsp;NOT&nbsp;always&nbsp;be&nbsp;possible&nbsp;for those&nbsp;riding&nbsp;the bus.&nbsp;On routes&nbsp;where social distancing is not possible, there&nbsp;will be&nbsp;two students per seat&nbsp;in order to&nbsp;be able to&nbsp;run&nbsp;the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[220],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backtoschool2020"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p76FL9-1XV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7561,"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7559\/revisions\/7561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}