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Why should seat belts and airbags be installed in school buses?

Im doing a debate in my physics class, and need some positive points on why seat belts and airbags should be installed in school buses, have any ideas?

Public Comments

1. They're too expensive. They would only help if the bus ran into a wall. If the bus runs into a car, it will just push the car out of the way due to it's mass.
2. seatbelts yes !airbags ,no they kill people
3. Because, the bus drivers tend to be more careless than, regular parent drivers. The bus is also filled with children.
4. students are the future of the country and we need to save them from all the harm. Safety for all children. Seat belts and air bags save lives.
5. -for safety of course -even though the bus will be relatively unscathed from colliding with a car in an event such as rollover or collision with another oversize vehicle you’d be screwed without them They will probably argue about cost In which case you should point out that the cost would be offset by insurance discounts and safety is the most important thing and we sink so much money into items such as fire sprinklers in schools, etc. and enforce strict rules,curfews etc. to protect our children already and they are very vunerable in vehicles
6. They don't need to be on buses. The most common accident on a bus will be one where the bus remains on all 4 or 6 tires actually. Air bags are not need sine the back of the seat infront of them is padded acting like an airbag. You additonally don't want them seatbealted because if they are seatbelted in delay self extracation time. Sorry not to be able to help.
7. I agree with mfees56, seat belts & air bag would be impractical on a school bus. The size of the bus & the amount of seats are cost prohibitive.The size of a school bus, Extraction of crash victims by fire /rescue etc. would be hinderd by sutch devices.
8. Airbags in school buses? For who the driver? I'm all for that. But for all the kids? It ain't happening. Way too expensive. If you go to any school bus safety website NHSTA, NTSB, etc., you will learn about compartmentalization which is how kids are kept safe in school buses by the amount of clearance between seats. Yes, seat belts help in a side impact crash but for a front or rear crash the benefit of seat belts would be minimal unless everyone was wearing a five point shoulder seat belt. Which would be difficult to accommodate everyone considering the different sizes of children that typically ride a school bus.
9. Both airbags and seatbelts would cost us to much plus the children would cause more accidents because they would not use them correctly and they would not leave the airbags alone causing them to deploy........ Compartmentalization, a concept seen frequently on commercial airplanes, involves seating passengers in rows of padded seats with cushioned backs. The belief is that during frontal or rear impact, the most common types of wrecks involving school buses, passengers would either be pushed back into their seats or thrown forward into the padded backs of the row ahead. The use of seat belts might require stiffer seats, which would negate the theory of compartmentalization. It is also feared that some students would receive internal injuries from seat belts through a process called submarining, the tendency for a body to slide downwards during impact. Seat belts on school buses may also hamper rescue or evacuation efforts, as adults or older students may have to spend precious minutes unbuckling young or disoriented passengers. Unruly students could also use the heavy buckles as makeshift weapons, creating even more of a safety hazard. There is also the argument that seat belts would only protect passengers of school buses during unusual events such as roll-overs or flips, not other possible accidents such as fires or submersion. Considering the expense of retrofitting current school buses or replacing entire fleets with approved seat belt systems, the benefits of seat belt use do not currently outweigh the liabilities. One problem many school systems face with the prospect of mandatory seat belt use on school buses is compliance. The bus driver already has a significant amount of responsibility, so schools would have to hire additional monitors to ride on all the school buses. In light of sexual misconduct concerns, both male and female monitors would have to be hired in order to avoid any allegations of impropriety. Besides the added expense of hiring qualified monitors, there would also be a question of liability if even one student removed his or her seat belt and became injured as a result.
10. they shouldn't<