bethng
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I posted a while back about one of my special needs students getting to use one of the new safeguard seats made for buses. It fit him great! I posted pics and such. Anyway...he got on a new bus route...and is on a new bus. So new bus pulls up yesterday with 2 convertable car seats in them. Both with 40lb weight limits. This child is at least 42lbs. I tell the driver he is too big for these seats (older man..about 60). He says "what do you mean?" grrrr....I explain that the seat only holds a child to 40lbs and show him the sticker on the seat. I also put him in the seat and showed him that the harness straps were below his shoulders and had to be above. then I shook the seat and it was in there sooo loose! He gets all pissy with me and says "I am sorry Mrs.____ but that is all I have and I need to leave NOW! So there was not much I could do at the time but put my little guy in this seat he was too big for, straps not adjusted right and seat too loose. I went back to my classroom and emailed the director of transportation for special services. Never heard back from her today. I go to put my student on the bus this afternoon and the same two stupid seats are there. Driver says that he talked to grandma (student lives with grandma) and that is the same seat that grandma uses (SO??? ) and that they dont have any extra safeguards left to use as they only bought 9 and they "were very expensive". I told him that I had emailed the director and suggested a few seats that would harness past 40lbs that were not near the prices of these special safeguards but never heard back. So off he went again in a seat he was too big for with straps below his shoulders. :thumbsdown: My assistants think I am being a bit anal about this. Think its not such a big deal. I NEED some crash test links of dummys that are over the limit of weight for a seat and what can happen...and/or what happens when the straps are not in the right spot. do they exist? I need back up! This driver thinks I am a total B#$@ch and just trying to make his job harder.