I meant to post this a few days ago, then YESTERDAY a 15-passenger van crashed carrying a bunch of kids, babies to age 8 or so (and I think they had more people than seats). An aide died, and many of the kids were in critical condition. This was in Kentucky. How many injuries and deaths will it take to do something? This is an actual center daycare, not a home. (And one of its branches was prohibited from transporting kids b/c it left a kid in a hot van). So this branch, it was OK to just cram a bunch of babies and kids into this van? Gee.
I noticed last week a daycare in town (park district) take a bunch of preschool kids on an outing in such a van. Just in adult seatbelts.
So, if you want a summer camp or daycare around here, you have to check how they transport children. So many of them I don't want to use b/c it's a 15-passenger van and they just stick preschool kids in them. If the big van is what's available and there truly isn't an option for a school bus or mini-bus for kids, at least restrain these kids properly!
I noticed last week a daycare in town (park district) take a bunch of preschool kids on an outing in such a van. Just in adult seatbelts.
So, if you want a summer camp or daycare around here, you have to check how they transport children. So many of them I don't want to use b/c it's a 15-passenger van and they just stick preschool kids in them. If the big van is what's available and there truly isn't an option for a school bus or mini-bus for kids, at least restrain these kids properly!
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