{"id":34615,"date":"2021-01-25T15:01:11","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T20:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=34615"},"modified":"2021-01-25T16:34:15","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T21:34:15","slug":"school-district-8-to-track-west-kootenay-students-on-the-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/school-district-8-to-track-west-kootenay-students-on-the-bus\/","title":{"rendered":"School District 8 to track West Kootenay students on the bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are 2,369 students who take the bus to school in School District 8 (SD8). <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That\u2019s 2,369 students the school needs to account for, to make sure no one gets left behind. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s a responsibility the school system doesn\u2019t take lightly.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Losing track of a student doesn\u2019t happen often, but manager of operations for SD8, Janet Wall, said even once is more often than they would like. In any case, having a system in place will make relocating students much easier and faster.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Initially, SD8 was interested in the Zonar program as a way to trace students on buses, in case of possible COVID-19 exposure. If the district knows which bus an infected student rode \u2014 and when, where and how long they were on the bus \u2014 they would be able to contact exactly which other students were also on the bus at those times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here is CJLY's interview with Janet Wall:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-34615-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/BusTracking1-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/BusTracking1-1.mp3\">https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/BusTracking1-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are 2,369 students who take the bus to school in School District 8 (SD8). That\u2019s 2,369 students the school needs to account for, to make sure no one gets left behind. It\u2019s a responsibility the school system doesn\u2019t take lightly.\u00a0 Losing track of a student doesn\u2019t happen often, but manager of operations for SD8,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":34619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[218,221],"tags":[5342,2530,2641,5341,5343],"radio":[1420],"origine":[280,2165,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34615"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=34615"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=34615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}