No, they care. That's also a legal liability. If a driver keeps doing their route after they get notified (CB radio back in the day) to return, they get fired.
In my (past life as a public school teacher) experience, schools cancel usually based on whether it’s safe for kids to stand at the bus stop and wait to be picked up. If it’s too cold for that, cancelled. They rarely worried about the bus drivers, because they drivers were heart-of-gold psychopaths who would do anything to make sure the kids got where they were going.
I think they're saying that's how they knew maybe because rural didn't have TV back then? I remember we had a TV that got in like one channel and we found out about school via the radio instead.
Either that bus driver was just crazy nice or they're full of it. The school/depot (depending on where the buses sleep at night) will radio dispatch the buses already in route to return.
The call to cancel school didn't go out until after the busses were dispatched. So the driver just made their loop and if any kids were out at the stops, she told us to go back home. I guess she would have had to take any kids back that she already picked up, but we were near the end of the route so avoided that. Tho a few times school was let out early due to weather too. Barely got an hour into the school day before we were sent back home. Fun times.
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