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School Bus Safety

Most parents hate the idea of having to put their child on a school bus, in the hands of a driver who has to tolerate 30 kids at one time, traffic and more. But, for many parents, it isn’t an option to take your child to school. So, despite your preferences, you are forced to put your little one into a huge vehicle that doesn't even have safety belts.

There are a few ways to ensure that your child is safer on the school bus, though. While it is hard to trust your child to do what is right, if you talk to them every day and keep updated with the bus driver as to how your child is doing, it can help keep them much safer if they listen. There are also measures you can take to the school or school board that, when adopted, can help keep all children safer:

• Teach them where to sit—
It is much safer to be nearest one of the emergency exits, so if you teach your child to sit as near to these as possible, it can help them in an emergency situation.

• Teach them to stay seated—
This is one of the hardest one to drill through a child's head, but it is one of the most important. They must stay seated if they want to be safe, especially on a bumpy riding school bus.

• Quiet—
Explain to your child how a bus driver must concentrate to be able to drive without wrecking. Tell them that it is one thing for one person to be loud, but that if every child on the bus is being loud, it is nearly impossible for the driver to focus, which endangers every kid on the bus.

• Cameras—
If you feel it is something that might keep the children on the bus safe (not just from wrecks, but also from the bullies, etc.), you should approach the school board about having cameras installed on the bus. Then, the driver has to always be on the best behavior, as well as the students. Having a camera watching over everything that goes on can make everyone much safer.

• Aides—
If your child's school bus driver doesn't have an aide that rides with them, you should talk to the school about getting one. It may be that they don't have it in their budget, and if this is the case, you can talk to other parents about volunteering to be an aide. It could be divided up to one day a week or two days a month (if you can get enough parents together that can do it). This way, it isn't much time out of the parent's schedule, but it also helps keep all children on the bus safe.

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