A Kentucky school principal has added to her resumé amid staff shortages owing to the pandemic. She has taken on the role of a bus driver to ensure her students get home from school safely. Janet Throgmorton of Fancy Farm Elementary in Graves County, western Kentucky, is acting principal to 184 preschool through sixth-grade students. Two of the school’s bus drivers are battling COVID-19, reported Good Morning America (GMA). Throgmorton told GMA that her students found their “Miss Janet’s” new role very funny at first. “The first couple of times I drove it was really comical because I’m on the bus as the bell rings, as the kids are dismissed,” Throgmorton said. “The kids are like, ‘Why are you driving the bus? Do you know how to drive the bus?’” Throgmorton replied in the affirmative: She got her commercial driver’s license in 2018. She has even acted as a substitute bus driver for …
Principal Drives Bus to Take Students Back Home Safely Amid COVID-19 Staff Shortages
January 15, 2021
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