I agree - here in the UK it seems to me they use the oldest buses for school journeys, just before they are condemned to the scrap heap. There is always a big fuss on school outings to ensure that the children are strapped into their seatbelts - but the same does not apply on the daily school buses to and from school.

A bus-load of girls from my daughter's (allegedly goody-goody convent)school got their revenge the other week. Their bus was already nearly an hour late, and eventually appeared with a relief driver who didn't know where to take them - so they directed him on an hour's jaunt to Stansted Airport, totally the wrong direction, arriving at school just in time for lunch ! St. Trinian's rools OK !!

- jeanie