I am wondering if it wouldn’t make more sense and be more effective than installing seat belts if each bus had a monitor along on each trip. These bus monitors would be someone hired strictly to keep “law and order” on the bus, prevent horsing around and to make sure kids stay seated.

Seat belts sound very simple, but who is to say that these belts would always be used in the way they are supposed to? Kids could certainly loosen them whenever they wanted and go sit with someone else, or give someone a punch, or whatever suits a student’s fancy at the moment.

JUDY BOLYARD

Jonesborough