In Dinah Mulock Craik’s perspective, “ [You should] believe nothing you hear and only half of what you see.” This is what we should forewarn both the strict bus inspectors and the bus drivers that drive over 26 million students to and from school every day. `While most states require seat belts on buses, it doesn’t necessarily mean they are worn. In a recent survey, six out of eight bus riders admit that they do not wear their seat belts on the bus, unless a teacher comes on the bus or the bus driver decides to check. By simply demanding students to wear their seat belts, waiting to hear the seat belts clicking, and glancing around the bus, drivers evidence how truthful Craik’s theory is. Most bus drivers don’t even enforce seat belts, while some rely on that one click to continue their lives. Students should be required and compelled to wear seat belts on their bus. The amount of vehicle accidents annually have soared over the all time high of the previous decade, which was seemingly impossible to beat until the 21st century dawned. The US Department of Transportation states that seat belts could reduce the amount of injuries up to 40%, but that will only happen if the bus driver hears more than one click.
Schools in this state all mandate that there are seat belts on school buses. Students, though, don’t and often refuse to buckle up. Over half of these students are part of the student body, without these students, there would be a minuscule amount of students. Also, the worsening economy results in budget cuts, and most of that money is taken from the school’s transportation budget. As aforementioned, school buses have seat belts that are not worn because they are uncomfortable and the bus drivers hired aren’t noticing or probably not caring about students’ seat belts. Better bus drivers are currently not an option, because math textbooks matter more, and they will continue to if there is anyone left to read them. Seat belts help keep the numerous amount of children in this country alive each year. Edison Township also uses compartmentalization to promote student safety along with seat belts, but that alone would not be effective and restrictive harnesses would only fit only two-thirds of its riders. Both kindergarten children and high school senior can sit in same seat on a bus, and something that is tight on a first grader is probably not the best choice for a ninth grader. 87% of this school’s student body rides a bus, and the least we can do is try to keep them alive during their trip to school.
Any accident can injure children, whether they trip on toy or are involved in a vehicle crash.Recently, there have been a multitude of school bus accidents, and all of them, luckily, had a few minor injuries involved, but no major fatalities. There are high stakes, now, with the occurrence of school bus accidents tripled and the fact that our luck might run out. Subsequently, there might a large accident and all of us will regret not buckling up. An average of ten students meet an early demise each year due to bus accidents. Most people believe that a car is the safest method of transportation, even though there are numerous car accident each year. Only 20% of participators in a poll believe that school buses are the safest vehicles on the road, despite the modern buses weight, which is over ten tons!About 16,000 buses carry students to school everyday, and it naturally seems like impossible odds, a sole bus rolling over out of thousands. That is a justified contradiction, but the odds will astound anyone. Perplexity shrouds this constantly changing ratio, because the chance of dying in a transportation accident is around 1 out of every 77 people annually. There may be many bus riders, and compared to them the plethora of bus accidents may seem small, but there are several ways to avoid waking up early for the rest of you life. The deceased say the worst way is to not wake up at all after your bus rolls over, falls off a bridge, or more likely, hits a car.
The last, and most beneficial, reason to wear seat belts on the bus, besides staying alive, is because it not only enhances disciplinary skills,it lets students have a previous experience before learning to drive in the distant future. Only 68% percent of drivers to this day wear a seat belt when driving, but if students wear their seat belts on the bus from the first day they step inside the bus to last day they step out, chances are they will wear their seat belt when driving to. There is a risk that students will use seat belts to hurt their peers, but just as there are lunch aides, a bus aide could patrol the bus and obliterate any safety hazards. Students can display obedience and discipline on the bus too, and if a bus aide can not tolerate their behavior, they can expect atrocious behavior inside of school. Some may argue that hiring bus aides will be expensive, but since some teachers live in the local neighborhoods, they can ride the same buses to their destinations as well.
Students should be required to wear their seat belt to and from school on the bus. Buckling up will serve as a lifeline in many ways and it benefits students in more ways than one. More than half of this institution’s student population takes advantage of the public transportation provided, and a majority of them ride an overcrowded vehicle, thus one severe crash would result in a tradegy. The occurrence of school bus accidents and fatalities have multiplied rapidly over the last decade and these accidents have put children's’ lives at stake. Wearing a seat belt seat belt is similar to brushing your teeth everyday. Gradually your routine is a habit, wearing your seat belt is both a habit and a routine that should hep you receive a driver’s license. Seat belts can be your only lifeline later on; maybe the only way to form a bridge between life and death is to buckle up. For that one click, nothing besides that click, might be able to save you.
