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Chesapeake school district prepares its buses amidst fuel disruption
and last updated 2021-05-12 16:52:40-04
CHESAPEAKE, Va. â With many drivers rushing out to fill up their gas tank, some may be wondering how it will affect businesses and even schools.
News 3 talked with David Benson, Director of Transportation for Chesapeake City Public Schools, to see if they anticipate the Colonial Pipeline disruption will affect their bus routes. Benson says they are prepared.
âWhen we reached out to our vendor, they assured us that they would make every effort to get additional loads sent to those locations,â said Benson, who was referring to the commercial sites located across Chesapeake where bus drivers fuel up the buses with diesel. âSo as far as diesel is concerned, we wouldnât have as much to worry about. We may wait in line a little bit longer, but we shouldnât have issues with our buses not being able to get fuel at this point.â
“They are so excited and so ready to go back, she said.
She calls virtual learning a beautiful resource, but said she wants her children learning in person.
“I’m really a proponent of them being back in the building - of course under safe conditions, but definitely not afraid of my students, my children to be back in the classroom,” Hawley said.
Today, the Chesapeake COVID-19 positivity rate is 22.8%, which is the highest in Hampton Roads.
That’s one reason a mother of three, Samantha Lester, said she doesn t think it s safe for in-person learning.
“Not only am I concerned about them sending children back to school, and the staff members right now, Lester started. They continue to abandon the metrics they told us they would abide by when it came to the positivity rate and case incident rates this summer.”