Hanover School Division kicks off Bus Safety Week – SteinbachOnline.com [Video]

It’s Bus Safety Week in the Hanover School Division (HSD), during which thousands of students will be partaking in rear door evacuation drills. 

“I think this might be a fun one for the kids to go to the back door of the bus. It’s something a little different, but also one of those things to practice so, in the rare occurrence that you may need it, you’ve done it once,” says Rob Warkentin, the division’s director of Transportation. 

As bus safety week kicks off, he says the pubic may notice some out-of-the-ordinary things, including school buses running through drills on the commute home. 

“We’re not going to do a rear door (evacuation drill) on the roadway, so we’re pulling off into parking lots. We potentially do them on the bus loops,” Warkentin says. 

The drill takes about 10 minutes the director says, and advises parents that their kids may be …