Kanawha County's public school system announced Wednesday that 17 schools will not have 2-hour early outs Friday due to bus issues.
The schools with no early out will be: Bridge Elementary, Chamberlain Elem, Clendenin Elementary, Elk Center, Edgewood Elementary, Grandview Elementary, Kanawha City Elementary, Piedmont Elementary, Pinch Elementary, Ruffner Elementary, Shoals Elementary, Mary C. Snow West Side Elementary, Elkview Middle, Horace Mann Middle, Stonewall Jackson Middle, Capital High and Herbert Hoover High.
Brette Fraley, Kanawha's executive director of school transportation, said there are too many buses tied up by the situation at Elkview Middle - where the middle schoolers are attending their school in the morning and Hoover students are attending it in the afternoon - to provide the early outs to those 17 schools.
"We just can't make it work," Fraley said Wednesday evening.
Hoover students are sharing the Elkview Middle building with that school's students until portable classrooms are set up and, eventually, the Kanawha public school system follows through with its promise to build a new Hoover. The high school got more than six feet of water in the late-June flooding, and the district has said it won't ever reopen.