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WHEELING — Parents and bus drivers will have an extra layer of depth to their students’ bus rides, starting next year, with the integration of GPS systems into their bus routes.
Ohio County Schools Director of Operations David Crumm discussed the prospect at Monday evening’s board meeting, getting the board’s approval to go ahead with the Edulog route management software. The software, Crumm said after the meeting, has a number of benefits for the district, its drivers, and parents.
Through an app, parents can ask to be notified when their child’s bus enters a certain radius around their house, alerting them that they will soon be needed to pick up their student at the bus stop. At Monday’s meeting, Crumm said parents being absent from bus stops was a perennial problem.