(11 Sep 2020, 10:42 pm)stagecoachbusdepot wrote 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.

I don't know how things work now, but we always had an early and late school bus, one that got there ~30 minutes before start, and one about ~10 minutes before.
Obviously I'd get neither and always get the public bus because I didn't fancy being set on fire!