Leave No Child Behind (But Leave Most Of Them Unbuckled On The School Bus) (Trees And Things)

JimmyHavok: Re: Leave No Child Behind (But Leave Most Of Them

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:34:43 EST

And then there's the issue of seats that look like they stay put, but really don't.

One of our company cars got rear-ended recently, and while it wasn't damaged very badly, the driver's seat tore completely out of its tracks. The driver sai

Steve Urkel: The pill

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:30:30 EST

This is a side effect of low birth rates. If parents had 8 or 9 children like in the past, one or two of the kids getting maimed or killed on the school bus wouldn't be such a big deal.

Shy Elf: Re: Leave No Child Behind (But Leave Most Of Them

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:12:37 EST

In my time, they started out with just short backed bench seats (which fit me just fine at the time), and then they did crash tests and went to high seat backs, which performed pretty damn near as well as 3-point seat belts. Unless you really had a v

delete me: Re: Leave No Child Behind (But Leave Most Of Them

Sun, 9 Nov 2008 18:05:44 EST

Come on. They're huge, bright yellow, control the flow of traffic when they're stopped, and stop before all railway crossings. They're hardly a candidate for mandatory seat belt use, though I would support making every young bus rider have to wear a crash

JimmyHavok: Re: Back in my day.

Sat, 8 Nov 2008 22:33:20 EST

Your teacher was an idiot. "If the back door is blocked, you go out the front door. You don't need to learn to do that because you do it all the time.

"If the bus is on its side, you go out the back door. The worst case scenario

pO157: Back in my day.

Sat, 8 Nov 2008 16:55:27 EST

I used to walk to school. My elementary school was only a couple blocks from my house, and so I never took the bus (maybe from K-1 or K-2 my parents dropped me off, I forget). Anywho, first/second grade we all got rousted out of class to go board some scho

JimmyHavok: Re: Leave No Child Behind (But Leave Most Of Them

Sat, 8 Nov 2008 14:35:34 EST

The thing that always amazed me about school buses was the chrome grab bar across the back of each seat. It seemed to me to be just begging to knock a handful of bloody chicklets out of someone's mouth. It may be they've replaced it by now with

Lou: Re: Forget the belts

Fri, 7 Nov 2008 14:59:24 EST

Good point on the first...didn't think of that. One the second, those roller coaster lap bars seem pretty robust, so I don't see an issue with that. Of course, with the constant open and shutting it might wear out the latch, but this just seems

thefadd: Re: Forget the belts

Fri, 7 Nov 2008 14:56:55 EST

Except they don't all get in at the same time and what happens when the school bus catches fire and the unlocking mechanism breaks?

Lou: Forget the belts

Fri, 7 Nov 2008 13:57:53 EST

They should really use a mechanism similar to the kind used on roller coasters. The driver looks in the mirror...are the kids all sitting, yes? He pulls a lever and ka-chunk, the kiddies are locked in.

port1080: Re: Leave No Child Behind (But Leave Most Of Them

Fri, 7 Nov 2008 13:51:42 EST

The government decision here seems very sensible to me. I actually wonder if requiring kids to wear seatbelts might cause more harm than good in an accident, on a big bus. If we're talking younger children, they might not be able to disentangle

thefadd: I'll Re-Post

Fri, 7 Nov 2008 13:07:47 EST

What I said in the queue...Do we have a rash of school bus accidents harming kids? If not, this is just more useless do-goodery. School bus drivers are specifically trained, drive extremely conservatively and have laws made specifically to ensure that traf