Assistant superintendent Marc Turner (right) instructs Ken Small (left), head of the school district’s transportation department, to send an email to all bus drivers letting them know to start their pickup route with all of the windows down on the busses. In the middle is Scott Myers, who is the risk manager for the school district.
Is it too hot to ride in a school bus these days?
Riding on hot school buses has been an issue throughout the United States, not just in Vermilion Parish. However, that does not help cool off the daily bus rides that students have to make.
In Vermilion Parish, the temperature has hovered around 100 degrees for the last three weeks with an average heat index of 105.
On Thursday, public school began in Vermilion Parish, and on the second day of school, KATC TV3 interviewed a parent about her child riding a hot school bus.