Kindy field trip

[*Efjay*]

I don't want him to miss out on the trip on the bus but I feel his safety is more important then a fun trip. He has ben to the city heaps of times with us so that wont be new for him.
If the school isn't using the seatbelt bus he wont be catching it. Sydney drivers are just too careless.

[smiles4u]

My sister is a secondary school teacher ... and use to drive the small school bus on excursions ... She said the students (teenagers) a lot of the time wouldn't put their seatbelts on ... Which she ' even as the driver' felt unsafe about even if it were a 30min trip away

I have a girlfriend who always volunteers as an 'assistant' to help out when her daughter's have gone on long distance school excursions, she has been doing so since the older one was 5 & she is now 11

... If it were me I would volunteer to go along with your son on the excursion

Maybe not when he is older ... & hopefully there will be seatbelts in the bus by then ???

[*Efjay*]

I can't go along as I have to other little kids. They have also stated on the permission slip that parents are unable to attend this time.

[Phteven]

If the school isn't using the seatbelt bus he wont be catching it. Sydney drivers are just too careless.

I guess it's all a matter of perception lol. DH and I have been spending a lot of time out near the hawkesbury and Blue Mountains lately and TBH we find the country drivers a whole heap more scary. They go at crazy speeds on narrow bendy back roads and seem to lack the awareness of other cars/traffic sense of Sydney drivers.
I would guess that neither demographic is better at driving - they just have different styles that suit their local conditions.
That said of all the accidents I've seen in Australia the country ones seem worse - probably because they're more often high speed crashes rather than bingles in slow traffic.

my children spend 2hr on a bus to and from school - half of which is spent travelling on the busy newell highway with semi trailers and B-Doubles wizzing past at 100km an hour

That sounds like my childhood school bus ride (probably the same for half of Australia's rural population lol). I have such fond memories of those rides - they were so social because we didn't just ride with the kids from our school but also the high school kids (the big kids lol - they seemed so grown up) and the special school kids and the kids that went to the private school. Even if I wasn't feeling social I loved watching out the window (still do - old habits die hard) or having time with my book.

[*Efjay*]

I guess it's all a matter of perception lol. DH and I have been spending a lot of time out near the hawkesbury and Blue Mountains lately and TBH we find the country drivers a whole heap more scary.

LOL, I meant sydney as a whole, not just city drivers. Western Sydney/city/ blue mountains etc, everyone except me PSML!