School Buses - Should You Be Worried?
School Buses - Should You Be Worried?
By David Westley
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If you're a Dubai parent worried about sending your children on the school bus, statistically at least, your should relax.
According to RTA officials there have been no accidents resulting in fatalities on school buses for the last three years, making them officially the safest form of transport in the emirate for children.
In total 4,076 school buses transport over 131,491 school children every day the latest figures show with a total of four school buses involved in non-fatal accidents last year.
School transportation is often a bugbear for parents across the UAE, although cost rather than safety is usually the major talking point of parents.
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From our perspective using the bus was important - we seem to wrap children in cotton wool these days. Please do not let Dubai become an offshoot of the UK's health and safety gone mad that does not allow children to go on school trips in case there is an accident. I heard that during the recent snow (1cm for two days) they even stopped children going to school in case they tripped and fell. Buses, socialising, school trips and **** playing **** are part of growing up and we take this aware not at our cost, but our childrens.