SPECIAL REPORT
EVACUATION TRAINING “Our [administration] didn’t want the
71% of school districts are conducting emergency evacuation
training with students during COVID-19 (Out of 132 responses)
How drills are being conducted:
85% In-person with safety measures in place
13% A combination of virtual and in-person
2% Via a training video online (Of the 95 school districts conducting emergency evacuation training)
7% of school districts have worked with first responders on school
bus mock causality drills during COVID-19 (Out of 128 responses)
students touching different surfaces, and then congregating behind the bus and putting people within the six-foot social distancing [area],” Black said. “The state also instructed us at that time to have windows open.” He added the exercise was kept
within the mandated 15-minute time- frame allowed for gatherings. One of the greatest lessons Black said he learned during COVID-19 keeping communication lines open. He said his staff became accustomed during the pandemic to using email to remain in touch. Now, he said, he simply sends email reminders to his school bus drivers when evacuation drills are scheduled. He added that due to COVID-19, Beaufort County implemented seat-
ing charts on the bus. Black said the seating charts are helping school principals or substitute drivers call students by their first name as they are conducting the evacuation drills. Black added he’s fortunate because
this year he was able to train 98 per- cent of his employees on evacuations. He noted that some drivers were out on vacation or had to quarantine due to contact tracing. Meanwhile, Janet Ulrich, the
director of transportation at Aurora Public Schools in Colorado, added that she also had to alter evacuation drills to adhere to the new COVID-19 protocols. Normally, her drivers are assigned certain days and students to conduct the training, noting it’s an “all-hands-on-deck approach.” However, last fall during school
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