What danger was found in Douglas County schools?”
Danger Zones The Danger Zones are areas on all sides of the bus where children are in the most danger of being hit. Children should stay 10 feet away from the bus or as far away as they can and never go behind the bus. Students should take 10 giant steps in front of the bus before crossing so the driver can see them. Children should wait for a signal from the driver to cross in front of the bus. The driver will check to make sure that all traffic has stopped, and the red lights are flashing before signaling students to cross. If the students drop something under or near the vehicle, they must tell the driver, NEVER stop and try to pick it up. Parents can help, too! The safety of our students is the top priority for all of us. Currently the factor that contributes to the most injuries and death of students in the United States is the passing of school buses while students are loading or unloading. Please help to combat this.
Across the state, more than 8,000 kindergartners and sixth-graders were missing doses of key vaccines — required under Georgia’s school immunization law — at the time audits were conducted last fall, several weeks into the school year. Students who aren’t fully immunized put themselves and others at risk of preventable illnesses. Principals who allow children to attend class without an immunization certificate, temporary vaccination waiver, or medical or religious exemption are guilty of a misdemeanor, according to the law, though nobody is ever prosecuted. More than 2,400 children in kindergarten and sixth grade, the only grades audited by health departments, had no documentation on file of their vaccination status. At more than 60 schools, at least one-quarter of the students audited weren’t properly immunized, state health department data for public and private schools show. And those numbers don’t include any students in Fulton County, which Spotlight previously reported have had s
