Transportation Issues & COVID-19
By Jan Bush
Business Manager
Murphysboro CUSD 186
Before we received “return to school” guidance from ISBE in late June of 2020, there were many questions about student transportation during COVID-19 (or as it is sometimes affectionately called, “The COVID” or “The Rona”). How can students socially distance on a school bus? Our bus companies told us that we could only transport six students on a bus in order to properly socially distance; what do we do? How can we get students of all ages to wear masks on a bus? What if kids lick the windows? Who will shut the windows? There were so many issues that we did not even know where to start!