Seat belts?
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I just found a blog that opened a discussion about why school buses don't have seat belts, and she raised a good point.
"Car seats and booster seats are required by law whenever you transport a child, in a car, under the age of eight and the weight of 80 pounds. Why then, are not even seat belts required on school buses that carry children as young as five for kindergarden, or in the case of special services and private preschools as young as three?"
I found this interesting, I only remember one school bus throughout my entire elementary experience with seat belts, and it was only in the front most row. To add on to the authors statement, the state of Maine has a required seat belt law, that every individual must be buckled, in addition to car seat/booster seat laws. If the law is effective for cars, trucks, and so forth shouldn't it also be effective for school buses?
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