Seat belts and school buses

Sunday, November 15, 2015

For the past couple months, news outlets have been reporting on how seat belts in school buses probably would save lives. They reported several students a year are killed because there aren't seat belts in buses. And now there is an agreement on the need for seat belts in school buses, that age-old excuse comes up: "But it is going to cost XX amount of dollars, and the local school systems can't afford it."

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