Students in Michigan City, Indiana were treated to a surprise day of remote learning this week when drivers arrived Tuesday to find that their buses had been stripped of their catalytic converters. According to local officials, more than a third of the school district’s buses were targeted in the overnight caper.
The district was forced to cancel in-person classes for all grade levels on Tuesday, pivoting instead to remote learning. Buses were made available for elementary and pre-school students on Wednesday, while middle and high school students got another day of remote learning.
The first driver to depart the district’s garage Tuesday morning was tipped off by her bus’s unmuffled exhaust. School district staff quickly inspected the rest of the fleet and found more than a dozen others were also missing…