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Why do we still operate our school bus system the way that we did 50 years ago?
Why, in the most ‘distracted driving’ era we’ve ever known, do we still put the safety of up to 75 minor children into the responsible hands of only one single adult school-bus driver?
Protecting our children should be one of our highest priorities, and how we transport our children between school and home should be one of our greatest concerns.
If you would like to see two responsible adults monitoring and protecting our most precious national resource on each and every school bus, then please do this very important task:
Write a letter or an email to your regional member of Parliament and ask them to bring this issue to the House of Commons. Also contact Basil Clarke, County of Simcoe warden.
We need all three levels of Canadian government to rise up to legislate this change.
Our federal government legislates the consortiums that manage the school-bus routes.
Our provincial government legislates our provincial educational systems.
Our municipalities elect our school board representatives.
Recently, a student (allegedly) used a pellet gun to shoot out the window of a Coldwater school bus. What if that bus had been moving, and what if that weapon had been far more dangerous?
Join me, please, dear reader — reach out to our members of government.
It’s time to put two responsible adults on each and every school bus in Canada.
Ute Schmid-Jones
Midland
