Fuck you, Little Johnny.

[Dimocritus]

School buses move slow enough as it is.

Now, for each stop there is a brief display of flashing lights and haggard bus monitors going through the choreographed actions of pretending to see if any of these little rug-rats took a mad dash under the tires. Finally, the bus slowly picks up speed once again, only to stop LESS THAN A BLOCK AWAY! God forbid little Johnny has to WALK forty feet to get home.

are you certain that this is the problem, and not the impatient-driver-with-road-rage epidemic?

That's where the thought process started, yes.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

School buses move slow enough as it is.

Now, for each stop there is a brief display of flashing lights and haggard bus monitors going through the choreographed actions of pretending to see if any of these little rug-rats took a mad dash under the tires. Finally, the bus slowly picks up speed once again, only to stop LESS THAN A BLOCK AWAY! God forbid little Johnny has to WALK forty feet to get home.

are you certain that this is the problem, and not the impatient-driver-with-road-rage epidemic?

There aren't enough toddlers being dragged a block underneath the cars of assholes.

[Triple Zero]

Sorry, kid. Don't blame the beurocracy.  They're just covering their ass.

If one single kid hurts themselves, or get abducted because they had to walk one block more than strictly necessary, then the school district gets fucked harder than Julie Strain left alone at a comicon.

sort of related: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/02/cya_security_1.html