A bus shortage in their school district was causing an inconvenience for their family. So their dad found a solution: He took the wheel.
Rick Daynes' 10-year-old son Eli is sometimes late to school, but it's no one's fault: There's a bus shortage at the Poway Unified School District in San Diego, California, a reverberation of the pandemic that's still playing out at schools nationwide.
Daynes says he was tested by the California Department of Education, the Department of Transportation, the Department of Motor Vehicles and the California Highway Patrol.All aboard! Rick Daynes drives his son Eli and his peers to school in a bus."I thought, 'Holy cow this is so much more to this than I thought,'" he says."I felt overwhelmed a lot."
"I didn't know if I would be driving Eli," he says. Luck intervened when a driver on Eli's route bid on an alternative schedule and Dynes snagged the opening.On May 3, Daynes snuck out of the house early to start his 5:30 a.m. shift. He picked up each child, with Eli being his last scheduled stop.Courtesy Poway Unified School District
Daynes took his job as bus driver to heart."We'd sing or each kid chose the music — they usually liked the soundtracks from 'Frozen,' 'The Little Mermaid' or 'Moana,'" he says."I take a lot of pride in knowing that I am the first person they interact with outside their homes," he says.He was recently hired by the Poway Unified School District as a permanent bus driver for the fall.
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