The seven Wake County Public School System bus drivers that serve Brier Creek Elementary were congratulated by NC Superintendent of Education June Atkinson and offered breakfast, songs and poems from students, faculty and the PTA.
The Thursday morning event at Brier Creek began Atkinson’s Love the Bus events highlighting the safety of the school bus transportation system and recognizing the many dedicated bus drivers who take our students to and from school safely.
In North Carolina, more than 14,000 yellow buses transport nearly 795,000 students while more than 26 million students travel in 480,000 buses nationwide.
“It is no surprise that, according to the National Academy of Sciences, the U.S. Department of Transportation and many other authorities, school buses are the safest form of transportation for getting children to and from school,” says Atkinson. “Research also has shown that students are as much as 13 times safer in a school bus than in other modes of travel. In addition, by eliminating the need to drive students to and from school individually, buses save families time, mileage on their vehicles and money in fuel costs while also helping the environment.”
At Brier Creek students sang and read poems to the bus drivers and Atkinson. Felisa Ellison, one of the drivers, said the students made it a fun morning.
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Bus driver Felisa Ellison arrives with her students at the Love the Bus event at Brier Creek Elementary.
Two Transportation managers and seven bus drivers visit Brier Creek Elementary for Love the Bus Day.
Brier Creek Elementary principal Sandy Chambers welcomes the bus drivers and State Superintendent of Education June Atkinson to the special breakfast reception.
The Brier Creek Elementay chorus sings their thanks to the bus drivers. Later, students from each grade level sang and offered poems thanking their bus drivers.