BROCKPORT, N.Y. — A bus driver shortage has prompted the Brockport Central School District to close some of its schools for the second day in a row.
Students in kindergarten through eighth grade will be staying home on Friday.
The district says it is monitoring the situation and it is working on it but parents on social media expressed their frustration and asked what the long-term plan is to solve the problem.
The district released this statement addressing Friday's cancellations:
This isn’t just an issue in Brockport, almost every school district in Monroe County has faced a shortage of drivers.
Greece and Rush-Henrietta school districts previously spoke with Spectrum News 1 about their troubles and the Rochester City School District had so few drivers that it had to delay the start of the school year and re-arrange routes.
Districts are dealing with drivers retiring and getting sick and the delay of a lengthy licensing process.
For Brockport schools on Friday, only grades nine through 12 will be attending classes. On Thursday, school was canceled for all grades.
After-school events and activities will still take place on Friday, as will parent-teacher conferences.