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Guilford County Schools suspends bus service to 8 high schools amid COVID spike

PAUL GARBER/WFDD

Guilford County Schools has suspended bus service for some high schools in Greensboro and High Point.

The suspension of bus service began Monday for eight Guilford high schools. They are Andrews, High Point Central and Kearns Academy in High Point, and Dudley, Grimsley, Page, Smith and The Academy at Smith in Greensboro.

School officials say there aren't enough drivers to staff those routes, a situation compounded by rising COVID-19 cases in the county.

The Greensboro Transit Agency and High Point Transit System are both offering free rides to Guilford high school students within their city limits if they show their student identification cards.

High school students whose schools are located outside of city boundaries will still have school bus service. The interruption also does not apply to elementary or middle schoolers, high school students with disabilities or magnet school students.

School officials say the bus service suspension is temporary but have not said when it will end.

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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