Same thing I posted on another thread....
“Read more carefully. It’s an update for those following the situation. I put it in the ping.”
Too many accidents and fatalities from unsafe school buses. If you homeschool them, they aren’t on them twice a day every day there’s school, driving in God knows what kid of weather to boot.
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Approximately 17,000 children are admitted to hospital emergency room due to school bus injuries. Every year, several children will be crushed or dragged to death by their school buses. Add to this number the injuries than are never counted in the stats, and the unreported bullying, and sexual abuse that go unreported.
Given the above it is at minimum an excellent reason never to put your child on a school bus!
The national agency that keeps track of school bus safety claims that buses are safer than cars. However, when I checked their website, they compared school bus stats to all children in cars during those hours for what ever reason. This would include teens driving other teens. They did not compare parents or guardians driving to and from school with children securely fastened in seat belts.
It is my bet, the children in a seat belt with their parent is FAR safer than on a bus.