Originally Posted by dobber
One child killed is one too many.
Originally Posted by Pampusik
If you're interested in getting your kids to school alive, nothing's safer than a school bus.
Undoubtedly so, but there's a cost involved as well. Why not lock kids up all day in padded rooms? They're not too likely to die in accidents that way, but they're hardly living either.
There are about 400 school-transportation fatalities per year in the USA, according to the article. That's perhaps 1 per 10,000 to 100,000 schoolchildren in the USA, right? So the risk is extremely low, even if tragic when it does occur. I feel like the damage done by sheltering kids from very minuscule risks like this one outweighs the benefits...