I think if it would cost $2,000.00 to add seat belts to school buses that is a small price to pay for a childs life. The seats in school buses have not changed since the 60's but just look at the changes in automobiles, people pay the price for seat belts and airbags in cars for self protection, I think that the taxes that we pay for schools should have already been used to update the school buses, why have you waited so long to make changes that were available to protect the lives of our children? If it was a matter of $2,000.00 I believe that is was very slack in not spending this money to make the buses safe for the children. It took a wake up call to bring this to attention and this should have been addressed in the 1960's. I would not drive a school bus unless it had safety features for the children and myself I think it very unforgiving for not having the buses updated for the childrens safety many years ago, how many parents are going to feel fear for the safety of their children each day that they know that they are on a school bus with no safety features and that the same thing could happen to their children that happened a few days ago, scary and un-necessary situation that should have been addressed many many years ago. I pray for the children and the parents that were in the situation a few days ago and pray that it never happens again.
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