Principal Drives Bus to Take Students Back Home Safely Amid COVID-19 Staff Shortages
A Kentucky school principal has added to her resumé amid staff shortages owing to the pandemic. She has taken on the role of a busdriver 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). Principal Janet Throgmorton of Fancy Farm Elementary School in western Kentucky. (Courtesy of Janet Throgmorton)
Throgmorton told GMA that her students found their “Miss Janet’s” new role very funny at first.