Why Schools are Missing the GPS Boat

Hope I don’t sound like too much of a broken record on this issue, but here again is one of the few school districts in the nation willing to not only extend themselves for pupil and driver safety, but observant enough to realize that measuring what they get paid to manage will return much more than the small initial investment.

Districts owe their drivers proof of activities to winnow out the bad from the good, protect the drivers against false claims and institute systems that allow rewarding drivers for performance rather than politics.

They owe parents the assurance of maximum safety for kids and demonstrable assurance they are managing the district’s transportation money wisely. Lord knows there is often little enough money to manage a district, why waste it?

So, Dave asks, what kind of parent are you? They one who listens to the complaining of school district managers and shrugs their shoulders? or the kind who holds district managers accountable for doing their best with their limited funds? After all, it’s only your child’s future and the next generation’s tax bill at stake, is it worth getting involved?

If you’re a school administrator, operations manager, fleet manager and you’re reading this … did you note that grant funds are available for these kind of initiatives? Are you like the 905% I talk to who almost revel in the ‘We have no funds” standard answer, or are you on the leading edge in wanting to maximize what you have? Only you can decide.