Granny
Gold Member
There are some pretty nasty comments being made here. In most instances school bus drivers are contracted by outside businesses - not the school districts, not the government, and certainly not the governors of any state. My understanding is that use of seat belts in school buses has come up a number of times in TN and been tabled for further discussion - one concerning possible internal or other injuries, for instance, if there's a flip over that leaves the kids hanging in the belts. I understand seat belts in private vehicles, airplanes, etc. but generally there are adults in control or adult passengers with enough wits about them to release the seat belts. Very young children may well be so shocked and/or traumatized or even unconscious and unable to release their seat belts - and generally you have one adult, maybe two, if there's a bus monitor, to undo all these children and get them out of the bus. And suppose in the interest of getting these children out safely the bus driver or monitor is not qualified to assess injuries they could move a child and make the situation worse. So it is something to consider carefully where seat belts on buses are concerned.
Then, the worse thing posted is the outright hatred of blacks - all blacks - and I wish there was a way to make people understand that not ALL whites hate black people and not ALL black people hate whites. Blacks bleed the same way whites bleed, they suffer loss the same way whites do - and I don't think anything could be more painful for anybody, regardless of race, than loss of their child. It's not supposed to work that way ... children should be dying before their parents, especially children who are still babies.
Then, the worse thing posted is the outright hatred of blacks - all blacks - and I wish there was a way to make people understand that not ALL whites hate black people and not ALL black people hate whites. Blacks bleed the same way whites bleed, they suffer loss the same way whites do - and I don't think anything could be more painful for anybody, regardless of race, than loss of their child. It's not supposed to work that way ... children should be dying before their parents, especially children who are still babies.