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School Transports Young Children By Taxi
School Transports Young Children By Taxi
State Law Requires Child-Restraint Device For Any Child 5 Years Or Younger
MIAMI (CBS4) ? A Montessori school in Miami Shores is accused by parents to have used taxis without any child car restraints to transport children between the ages of 2 and 4 on a recent field trip.
The Children's Village Montessori School at 650 NE 88th Terrace was originally scheduled to use busses to move the children between the school and the destination, but there were not enough for all of the children.
That's when the decision was made to use taxis to transport some of the students.
One parent told CBS4 that in her conversations with the school director, Yolanda Rodriguez, there was an admission that no child car restraint devices were used in the taxis that were transporting the children.
FLORIDA STATUTE 316.613: "Every operator of a motor vehicle as defined herein, while transporting a child in a motor vehicle operated on the roadways, streets, or highways of this state, shall, if the child is 5 years of age or younger, provide for protection of the child by properly using a crash-tested, federally approved child restraint device. For children aged through 3 years, such restraint device must be a separate carrier or a vehicle manufacturer's integrated child seat. For children aged 4 through 5 years, a separate carrier, an integrated child seat, or a seat belt may be used."
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Posted in: News on June 17, 2008 @ 12:00 AM
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...who cares?
Big... fucking... deal...
It wasn't until the late 90s that I rode in school buses even had seat belts, and they seemed to think that was good enough for us.
In fact, the ones that had belts were always the substitute buses...
I went to kindergarten in 1998 (wow, I feel old). Buses with no seat-belts. The same was true for most school buses I rode after that, with the one exception being when we went to a study trip to England (7th grade)-since it was really long distance it had seat-belts.
None i was just bored
Guys/gals, the point is that the school was cutting corners and dodging laws when it came to students' safety. Sure, schools are bad in and of themselves, but when they do something like this (probably to save money) they threaten the lives of their charges (according to the law).
I went to kindergarten in 1998 (wow, I feel old). Buses with no seat-belts. The same was true for most school buses I rode after that, with the one exception being when we went to a study trip to England (7th grade)-since it was really long distance it had seat-belts.
They STILL don't have seat belts.
It's not even their fault they don't own the buses and there is overpopulation problems in the US so there are more children and they have to take care of the children. They wouldn't even have those devices because they don't own the buses or use taxis that much.