Transportation Professionals Appreciation Week

Can you guess how many miles our GCS bus drivers travel transporting students to school each day? You’d be surprised! May 7 through 11 is School Bus Driver Appreciation Week. However, it takes more than drivers to ensure our students get to school safely. Mechanics, transportation safety assistants, routing specialists, supervisors and other support staff play a vital role. Because of that, GCS celebrates Transportation Professionals Appreciation Week. On May 8, the Transportation Department recognized the best of the best at its annual Professional of the Year ceremony. 

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To see all the honorees names, click here.

By the way, in Guilford County, 624 school and 62 First Student, Inc. bus drivers travel 52,241 miles transporting 38,761 students each school day! Hats off to all our Transportation staff! .

National Child Nutrition Employee Appreciation Week

They are the ones in charge of providing more than 70,000
GCS students with nutritious and mouth-watering meals daily. A healthy meal is one of the keys to success, and thanks in part to the 725 GCS employees who work in the schools’ cafeterias every day, GCS has many successes to celebrate. On May 7 – May 11, GCS honors school nutrition employees with National Child Nutrition Employee Appreciation Week. Don’t forget to thank the valuable staff who feed GCS’ children every day, and let them know they are treasured.