Adding Seat belts to Schoolbuses

Every morning, whether your child is a high school student or a middle schooler, you say bye to him as he goes into the school bus and travels to school. You aren't worried that the bus doesn't have a seatbelt. Why? Because you know that even without one, the bus is totally safe for your child. Hello, my name is Forever23 and I am here to bring forth the premise which is that adding seatbelts to school buses should not be mandatory. My ensuing roadmap will include first abrogating my opponents points and then divulging 2 of my own points into the debate. Their first point was that without a seatbelt, a child can get hurt in the case of a car accident. But I disagree, they will not. Actually, according to the globeandmail.com, the seats on school buses are padded, which makes them safe. In order to have a seatbelt, they need to be stiff. Having a stiff seat and a seatbelt is much more dangerous than having a padded seat and no seatbelt. Therefore, there is more danger in kids riding in stiff seats and seatbelts than there is in kids riding on padded seats but without seat belts. Now let me divulge 2 of my own points into this debate. My first assertion is that buses are much more safer than regular means of transportation. The reason we do have seat belts in cars is because they are more dangerous than buses. In a car, if you get into an accident, you have a larger chance of getting hurt. In buses, the chance of becoming injured is much less. "Transport Canada and the provinces do not require school buses to have seat belts," Roxane Marchand, senior media advisor with the agency, said in an email statement. "This is because compartmentalization " high-backed seats that are padded and closely spaced together " protects passengers in a crash."There were 3,684 injuries and 11 deaths in crashes on school buses in Canada between 2003 to 2012, Transport Canada notes in their National Collision Database.In the same period, there were nearly 1.34 million injuries and 22,397 deaths in crashes on Canadian roads in all other vehicles."Transport Canada has not deemed seat belts to be mandatory, and basically their rationale is that the school bus safety record is so excellent," said David Carroll, Legislation and Safety Consultant to the Ontario School Bus Association (OSBA). "A child is 16 times safer riding to school in a school bus than riding to school in a family car." This is very important because the implementation of seatbelts would be utterly insignificant and would not be helful to the school. As a result, the school will spend its money on something unnecessary. My second assertion is that buses are bigger. Buses are big and if a car does hit, it will just slide on the side. No harm will be done to the passengers. The kids sitting is the school buses will yes, get to school late but they will clearly be safe and sound. According to transportcanada, "They"re highly visible and we have more skilled and better trained drivers," Carroll said. "And you have a vehicle that sits higher than other traffic " when most vehicles hit a school bus, they collide below the floor line."When a bus is hit from the front or the rear, kids are protected by the compartment " sort of like the way Christmas tree ornaments are protected in their boxes by those paper dividers."It doesn't require students to do anything other than sit in the seat with their legs ahead of them and not in the aisle," he said. "There"s not a lot of room between seats and that"s to reduce acceleration in a collision." This is very significant because nothing matters more than our safety. And implementing seatbelts can ruin something that is already good. Thankyou, please vote opposition