Seat Belt on School Bus
Prewrite and Thesis Introduction: Topic – Seat belts in school busesThesis Statement – Seat belts should be required in school buses.Opponents suggests costly measure , time children spend on buses, belts in car why not bus | Main Idea #1Time children spend on school bus | DetailStatistics of busses and children who travel on busses | DetailTravel involves not only to and from school busses used in trips and other non school related programs | Main Idea #2Belts required in cars as safety , this is 2nd means of transport not main , sending mix messages on safety | Detail Life saving safety habit is only obeyed in cars | DetailCar crash safety is measured but buses not required same test, how well will a bus protect in an accident | Main Idea# 3School bus fatalities and injuries could be diminished by adding seatbelts | DetailFatalities statistics and seatbelt saving statistics | Detail14yr old CT student robotics convention could be alive if he had a belt on | ConclusionChallenge thought on going extra mile for safety on the transportation that our children uses |
With only a fraction of the states in the United States enacting laws that require seatbelts on school buses, most of the 23.5 million children who commute on school buses do so without the safety of a seat belt. Seat belts should be required on all school buses, not just on smaller buses or specials needs buses. This additional safety measure must be available for all who travel in a school bus. Even though opponents to seat belts suggest that requiring them would be costly, and result in diminished seating capacity / bus availability on routes, an average cost of $1.50 per child per year is a small price to pay to ensure children 's safety. With the time that children spend on school buses during the school year, belts should be a requirement just as they are in passenger cars. Considering all the fatalities and injuries that have occurred, seat belts could have changed the
With only a fraction of the states in the United States enacting laws that require seatbelts on school buses, most of the 23.5 million children who commute on school buses do so without the safety of a seat belt. Seat belts should be required on all school buses, not just on smaller buses or specials needs buses. This additional safety measure must be available for all who travel in a school bus. Even though opponents to seat belts suggest that requiring them would be costly, and result in diminished seating capacity / bus availability on routes, an average cost of $1.50 per child per year is a small price to pay to ensure children 's safety. With the time that children spend on school buses during the school year, belts should be a requirement just as they are in passenger cars. Considering all the fatalities and injuries that have occurred, seat belts could have changed the
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