Black Box Report

In the last week we've seen three school bus crashes where, through dumb luck, no children were seriously injured. But how much longer do you think we should play Russian roulette with our kids’ safety?

Any rational person has to objectively call school bus safety an oxymoron. With all the attention, effort and taxpayer expense to educate drivers to buckle up - explain to me how officials argue seat belts for children ought to be optional at best? You can't because you know down deep what this really boils down to is the almighty buck. School districts want Albany to pick up the tab for new belts, Albany wants Washington to write the check. In the end children as young as kindergarteners go from being buckled up in moms car seat to an unsupervised, unsecured romper room that qualifies as school sponsored transportation.

I don't blame the bus drivers, lord knows they have enough to worry about - but I do blame the absence of leadership anywhere in the chain of command to do, let alone say, what’s right.

I promise you this issue is not going away anytime soon.