(11 Sep 2020, 9:50 pm)Storx wrote Surely a simple solution would be to stagger school times. For example have one school from 9am - 3pm, another 9:30am - 3.30pm, another 10am - 4pm then another 10:30am - 4:30pm. Least it means the school buses are able to do extra runs for example run one for the 9am one then once that's done run empty and do one for the 10am school and the same for the 9:30am / 10:30am schools.

Better use of resources and not exactly hard to impliment from a school point of view. It also limits the amount of students using the buses at the same time and with the ones at 10am and 10:30am it's moved them away from the morning peak.

Exactly.  It's not impossible.  You wouldn't even necessarily need to stagger the school times, just have an early run and a late run operated by the same bus that, shock horror, comes back.  I don't know about the routes in the examples being posted on but many of the scholars services in this area seem to be quite short so you could have e.g. depart X 0740 arrive school 0800, light run back to X to depart 0820 arrive school 0840 - if say the school day started 0845 in this example.

I would still argue that leaving kids standing (they would hardly be stranded - they should be either near their home or at the school, if using a scholars service) is better than piling them on and hoping the nasty virus takes into account that they were on a scholars bus as opposed to any other enclosed space.  Completely agree with others that the underlying issue here rests with our woeful excuse for a government, however.