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It is recommended that principals or assistant principals use a rotating method allowing each of the drivers assigned to their school to accept or reject the field trip.  If all drivers refuse, the principal shall have a list of drivers from feeder schools to contact on a rotating basis.  Each school should be given a list of drivers who are willing or available to take field trips.  The list shall state (a) in-parish (b) out-of-parish. St. Theresa and Ascension Catholic shall use the same procedures.

2.

Only School Board owned buses will be used if a class or group requests a school bus for a field trip.  Contract drivers may be used for field trips, but they will use Board-owned buses for the trips.  Drivers will be paid $10.00 per hour for the trips. They will receive this pay through the district payroll system, as part of their next monthly paycheck.

3.

When a school submits the pay for a bus driver on a field trip, it will submit $10 per hour for the driver, an appropriate amount for benefits, plus $1.50 per mile for bus expenses.

4.

When making a trip on weekends or holidays, the driver will be paid for the hours that he/she is driving the bus or on call.

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Only those chaperones who are needed should be allowed to go.  Extra chaperones should not be allowed just because they would like to go.

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An adult, in addition to the driver, must be on each bus the entire time students are on the bus during extra trips.