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The Seven Highly Effective Steps to Keeping Your Child Safe

at the bus stop and while riding the school bus

Fall 2006
By James Kraemer
Every year school districts, government agencies and the press dedicate public service time and space to school bus safety issues. When considering the most dangerous events, concerning school buses, discussion can often point readers to motorists ignoring the bus stop law. Not violating the bus stop law is only one part of the effort to help keep kids safe. Here are 2safeschools seven highly effective steps to keeping your child safe at the bus stop and while riding the school bus.

1. Child predators must not be the only adults watching over children at the bus stop. Abductions are of serious concern these days. Children twelve and under are preferred targets. Children have been abducted from their own driveway. Escort your child to and from the bus stop or work with other parents at the bus stop to help keep your child safe. (Click here for story)

Featured Story from the Nation's Press
The vast majority of school bus crashes involve the bus driver distracted by students misbehaving on the school bus. So many reporters fail to cover that important aspect of helping the bus driver keep a safe environment for children. A recent story in the Daily Dunklin Democrat, "Students heading back to school need to be mindful of bus safety," by Jennifer Freeze, is very well done, especially in that it helps promote kids and parents doing their part to help keep the bus a safe place. This excellent example of the press helping school bus drivers keep kids safe is kept from fading away into press archives quite so soon. Reposted by permission. Click Here for story)

Featured Website
"A personal web site with educational value," defines Murray Smith's efforts to help keep kids safe in Nova Scotia, Canada. His Website features school bus safety information for students, parents, teachers and fellow bus drivers, including a, "Harrassing is not fun," quiz, an elaborate school bus safety quiz, a school bus drivers area and more. Murry makes excellent use of images from 2safeschools school bus safety CD photo library. Click Here for Featured Website)

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