Seat Belts on School Buses
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The United States has an affirmative obligation to ensure the highest levels of education and protection for its children. Unfortunately, the administration's unwillingness to meet this obligation is evident in its consistent failure to make available the financial and other support necessary for schools to provide the education required to adequately prepare our children for the successful administration of the country in the future. Even more unfortunate, however, is the administration's failure to provide the financial and moral backing for a nationwide drive to install seat belts on school buses because this failure threatens the physical safety of our children. Sadly, this failure is merely symptomatic of the country's general failure to dedicate itself to the protection of its children. There is no federal mandate requiring seat belts on school buses and only a few states have enacted legislation in support of such a position. Nonetheless, even states such as New York, New Jersey, and Illinois, which have all enacted school-bus-seat-belt legislation do not mandate retrofitting and installation of seat belts on all buses. Illinois, for example, only mandates installation on new, type II (smaller) buses. New York's 1986 law only provides each local school-district with the option of mandating seat belts, mandating only that new buses be delivered with lap belts (Langford 13). Similarly, the 1992 New Jersey law
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educe the possibility of children being tossed around or ejected from the bus during such an accident. Clearly, the seat belts are an important safety feature in these instances.
(2) Seat Belt Usage Improves Discipline
One negative message sent to our children by our failure to mandate seat belts on school buses is that it is acceptable behavior to break the rules. The installation of seat belts is mandatory in every car sold in the United States and now every state requires drivers and passengers of automobiles to fasten their seat belts while the car is in operation. These requirements illustrate to our children the positive example of responsible operation of vehicles and the AAP maintains that seat belt use in buses reinforces seat belt use in private vehicles (AAP 2). However, there is no federal or nationwide mandate for installation of seat belts in school buses and, in fact, the administration stands in opposition to the idea. Thus, we undo the positive message ingrained by the legislation regarding private vehicles and confuse our children by the application of contradictory rules.
(3) Seat Belt Usage Improves Safety Education
Laura Schwartz argues that by not providing seat belts in school buses we are committi
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Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page)
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