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Show School bus drivers have class :1 Ik. " " CEDAR CITY Several school bus drivers have met for the last three days in Cedar City to participate in a school bus driving clinic and attend required courses. The school bus driving clinic conducted Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of this week is a requirement for the bus drivers. New drivers from various local school , districts attended the I courses. New bus drivers I must take the course t sometime in their first year of driving a school bus. I The clinic included a 24- hour basic school bus ' driving class course and an 8-hour defensive driving course, along with actual bus driving through an obstacle course and on the streets. Kelvin Clayton, State Board of Education, was here to instruct the bus drivers. According to Iron County School District Driver Trainer Richard Grainger, the drivers must have six hours of actual time driving a school bus even before the district sends a driver to the course. He said that before drivers are allowed to drive the school buses with children on them, the 24-hour course and the 8-hour 8-hour defensive driving course must be completed. com-pleted. School bus drivers than are eligible to receive the school bus endorsement. Then every year after that, Grainger said, all school bus drivers must take intensive 8-hour course on various topics Watching school bus drivers maneuver the long, yellow bus in an obstacle course is Richard Grainger. The obstacle coure is part of the training bus drivers have been going through as part of a 24- hour course conducted this week" In Cedar City. Grainger is one of the driver trainers for the Iron County School District. School bus driver Jeff Schneiter checks his mirrors as he drives the bus through an obstacle course. Several bus drivers met in Cedar City this past week to attend a 24-hour course about school bus driving and an 8-hour defensive driving course. |