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The answer to this question is unequivocally yes. If seat belts are required in cars, vans, and trucks why should we not want them to be required in school buses that carry our precious children and grandchildren. If children are required to sit down and put on a seat belt and shoulder harness it will make it a lot safer for the children and will also eliminate a lot of problems for the bus drivers.

It seems to me that one of the very first places that seat belts should be mandatory are on a school bus. There are students of all different sizes and shapes. Most of the kids now days have smart phones that you can play games, use the Internet, text message, and download music on. They ought to be able to set down and entertain themselves for a few minutes on the ride to school. If there is absolutely nothing else to do you might re-read your school assignments.

Seat belt usage is the law in most of the states now and is a ticket-able offense if you are caught with out them on. Why would we not want our precious children and grandchildren protected from idiots on the road by seat belts and shoulder harnesses.

I have heard arguments that the seat belts would be twisted and on the floor. If the rules were strictly enforced like they should be, they would be around the kids holding them in place in case of an accident. If the children are not in the bus, who cares if they are twisted and on the floor. When the people that clean the buses clean them how much more would it take to straighten out the seat belts?

I have also heard the argument that it would cost too much to equip all the buses with seat belts. That reasoning is stupid. take some of the money that our government that the government is spending on the illegal immigrant children and install seat belts in the buses to protect OUR children. As long as our government is willing to spend BILLIONS of dollars a year on trying to educate kids of illegal immigrants that can't and don't want to speak English, I don't want to hear that it costs too much to equip our buses with the proper safety equipment to protect our future.

A school bus is out on the road just like other traffic and they do get involved in accidents. I would much rather have one of my little granddaughters have a bruise from a seat belt and be alive than be dead because it was too expensive to equip the bus with seat belts. Driving a school bus is a thankless job and I would not make a good bus driver. Not because

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