# Any updates on seat-belts in school buses?

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**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [July 3, 2013, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-updates-on-seat-belts-in-school-buses/662580 "2013-07-03T20:12:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 4, 2013, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-updates-on-seat-belts-in-school-buses/662580/2 "2013-07-04T20:44:45Z")

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Then there’s the obvious missing bit in the reasons not to have seatbelts on school buses: because there are also school children on school buses. Short buses have seat belts. I rode on a short bus in grade school. Seatbelt fights were a constant thing. And those things HURT.

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