One minute waiting period for the driver when transporting the student from home

Schools provide students and parents with school bus regulations

The school principal monitors the compliance of bus drivers and supervisors with health and safety procedures.

Photography: Ahmed Ardeti

Public school administrations provided parents of their students with regulations related to buses, to ensure compliance with them with the start of the new school year 2022-2023.

The school administrations informed the students’ parents that to ensure the facilitation of the process of transferring students in the morning and at the end of work, to and from school, the waiting period for the bus driver when transporting the student from home will be only one minute, with the need to put school bags in front of the house gate, so that the driver knows And the bus supervisor that the student will go to school.

She stressed the need for a person to wait for the student to receive him at the end of school hours, especially for students of the first cycle, but if the student is removed from school during work hours, the supervisor must be contacted to inform her of this.

The school administrations pointed out that the guardian is prevented from entering the bus for any reason, and in the event of a complaint or a note on the driver or the supervisor, the school administration is contacted to take the necessary action, provided that the guardian bears responsibility in the event of a violation of the procedures.

The schools called on parents to cooperate with the administration and transportation, to ensure that students follow the laws related to security and safety on buses, by wearing a seat belt, not walking on the bus, or standing on seats, not shouting and making annoying sounds inside the bus, and maintaining the cleanliness of the bus and furniture. Not tampering with the contents, respecting the bus driver, not talking to him while driving, following the instructions of the driver and the supervisor, being regular while riding the bus, and not taking the hand or head out of the windows.

The school administrations confirmed that in the event of non-compliance, they will take a number of measures with the transportation, according to the code of conduct.

In the event that the student does not comply with the rules of the bus, the students will be verbally alerted first, then the guardian will be addressed, up to the final ban on using the bus in the event of repeated violations.

In the event that the student damages the school bus, he will be prohibited from using the bus for one to three days, and the guardian will be charged for the damages resulting from that.

In turn, school administrations are committed to several procedures set by the Emirates Foundation for School Education in the guide for the safe return of the new school year recently issued to school transport service providers and their workers, most notably coordination with service providers and adherence to the absorptive capacity approved by the authorities concerned with school transport, and emphasizing the importance of preparing and registering Lists of names and contact details of students for each bus or trip.

In addition to ensuring that students sit on buses, taking into account the application of safe physical distance, providing supervisors in school buses, to measure the temperature of students before they board the buses, and making sure that supervisors monitor students, and ensure their commitment to follow preventive and precautionary measures while they are on the buses. schoolhouse.

In the event that a supervisor is not available on the bus, a student leader is assigned to carry out this procedure, and the school principal is responsible for following up on the commitment of school bus drivers and supervisors to health and safety measures (such as wearing masks, sterilizing hands, and applying safe physical distance), and directing school transport service providers to the necessity Educate their employees about the importance of adhering to these standards, procedures and controls, in addition to ensuring full compliance with the sterilization of buses before the first trip and after each trip with approved cleaning and sterilization materials, and recording them in a special register for each bus.

The guide stressed the importance of students’ commitment to sit in the seats designated for them, ensuring a safe physical distance, adhering to the system and positive behavior followed in school buses, and ensuring the commitment of parents to hand their children students to supervisors at the entrances specified by the school, and not allow them to accompany their children or enter to school buildings or affiliated facilities.

The names of the absent

The Emirates Foundation for School Education obligated the school bus supervisors or the student leader assigned to each bus to write the names of those who were absent, or those who were not allowed to board the buses, due to their high temperature, and to ensure that the school administration and their parents were informed, and the school administration was informed of the violating cases. Non-compliance with the system, and the positive behavior followed to take the necessary measures.

• School administrations stressed the necessity of having a person waiting for the student to receive him at the end of school hours.

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