Advice to Parents: Prepare Your Child to Take the Bus

The bus is a very safe way for your child to travel to and from school. In fact, school buses are the safest vehicles on the road! Very few deaths and injuries involve a school bus.

Do’s and Don’t at the Bus Stop

• Do make sure the driver can always see you
• Do stay back from the road
• Do wait quietly in line
• Do stay back until the bus stops, its lights start flashing, the door opens
• Do enter the bus single file
• Don’t push or shove
• Don’t run into the street
• Don’t throw things
• Don’t stop to pick up anything that drops while you are crossing in front of the bus
• Don’t yell and shout
• Don’t bring your pet on the bus