Maryland National Guard members will not be sent to the state’s most populous county to help alleviate a school bus driver shortage. At the request of Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS), the county’s government sent a request this week to the Guard to send personnel to fill in for drivers out sick. Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich, a Democrat, said the request was rejected. “Unfortunately, no resources are available,” he told a virtual briefing on Wednesday. A spokesman for the Guard told The Epoch Times in an email that it is “currently focused on supporting the Maryland Department of Health and other state agencies with missions for COVID-19 testing, supporting local hospitals and skilled nursing facilities, and assisting with non-life-threatening patient transport during the state of emergency due to a surge in COVID-19 hospitalizations.” Additional questions were directed to the office of Gov. Larry Hogan, but weren’t returned. The request was …