As part of the annual National Love the Bus program which takes place each February, parents, students and teachers are celebrating the over two hundred school bus drivers employed by the twenty-five members of the Calvert County School Bus Contractors Association. These drivers transport up to 15,000 students safely to and from schools in Calvert County each day. Dwight Bishop, Sr. owner of Bishop Bus Service, Inc. in Lusby, and the President of the Calvert County School Bus Contractors Association said, “I am grateful that students, parents and school staff take a few moments during the month of February to say thank you to our bus driver. Bus drivers care about students, are well-trained and are committed to safely transporting students to and from school.” In Calvert County, school buses travel approximately 3.2 million miles each year while transporting students to school and school activities. To thank their bus drivers, students and staff at Beach Elementary School will be providing bus drivers with survival snack bags. At Appeal Elementary, each class will make a card for a bus driver. On Valentine’s Day, drivers will be given the card and an individually wrapped honey bun with a label saying, “Thanks for [...]
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