When and why did the back seat on the school bus become a half seat?
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I don't know when, but I do know why.  The half seat is on the side the door opens.  It allows room for students to get out the back door easier without a seat in the way.
1159699
when I used to live in Bangalore (in India)....my friends and I used to sit by the upper level windows of the double-decker bus that plied on our route home.\nThat's not all, because we had filled up our water bottles and we kept taking mouthfuls and spitting it on the pedestrians, cyclists, and ppl who drove motorbikes, all far below us and unable to get back at us!!!!!!!!! It was tooooooo much fun.
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dba_gregg is correct.\n\nThe gravity pulls the front while the back is still supported by normal reaction force. Thus a torque is acting so as to rotate the bus with the front down. The angular momentum produced is conserved and the bus begins to rotate about the free axis passing through its centre of mass.
798811
Laws that required Blacks to sit in the rear of the bus, use separate restrooms, school, etc., were unjust.  They violate the precepts of this country's founding documents.
275244
And this is not a racial answer:  Freedom of choice.. if someone choose to sit in the front,, than sit in the front, if they want to do the back, do the back!! personally i like the back...smile...
962178
School is in session in my area.  Bus went by this morning... but there are a few people around who may need the short bus.
59755
Seat belts in school buses seems like a no-brainer to me, but some folks think otherwise. My belief is that it all comes down to saving a few bucks for the manufacturer and the school district. That does appear to be changing in the past few years though. Below is an excerpt from a wikipedia search. Please find below that excerpt in the "source(s)" section everything you'll ever need to know and then some on the plain old school bus. Rather interesting to say the least. One stat in particular struck me was the fact that 2/3 (two thirds) of children deaths have been from the school bus itself. And watch out for those church buses, their even more dangerous in most cases.\n\nVery few school buses have seat belts, a standard safety feature in cars and light duty passenger vehicles. In 1977, as provided in Standard 222, the federal government required passive restraint and structural integrity standards for school buses in lieu of requiring lap seat belts. In the 1980s, some districts in the US tried installing lap belts and then later removed them, claiming operational and passenger behavior problems. This is especially a concern on short buses. Whether lap belts should be required remains very controversial, although they are now required in at least 4 states (New York, New Jersey, California and Florida). However, only one state, New Jersey, requires seat belt usage.\n\nStarting in late 2005, all school buses built new and operating in California are required to have "three-point" safety belts, similar to ones used in the average automobile. The "three-point" belts give greater protection to riders compared to the lap belts. However, the new belts diminish bus capacities, and will require more new buses to be purchased to offset the capacity loss.
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It no longer applies, but the law in Alabama in the 1950s was that black people had to sit in the back of the bus if white people wanted to sit in the front. Rosa Parks protested that law by refusing to go to the back when asked, and as such began the Civil Rights movement which eventually led to the removal of racist laws.
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I don't have an answer, but I can tell you this:  In NC, they change schools so often, it really doesn't matter.  One year they have regular classes, the next they have year round. And a lot of the time they re-district so your children will go to different schools year after year.  \n\nDown the street at a large school bus stop, I've seen as many as 8 different busses picking up kids - all about the same age.  So if a school is over crowded they split them up and bus them all over.
194825
If you have a school parking lot let all senior know to come to school early to park horizontally . that way underclass men cant park. the mistake is to leave of your plates on.
459813
Yes, 50 years ago there were lots of good buses in all the cities and suburbs. Most families owned one car. The wife would drop the husband at the bus or train and have the car. The kids took buses or biked. There were very few fat people because people walked to and from public transportation. There were a lot more buses and trollies than there are now and there were trains that were later discontinued. I love NYC because you don't need a car. You can get from one end to the other very quickly by subway. We should be subsidizing public transportation instead of sending oil money to terrorists.
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Five years after the M40 minibus disaster which killed 12 pupils and a teacher, The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents warned today that still not enough is being done to protect children on school transport. \n\nThe victims from Hagley RC High School died in the collision with a lorry on the hard shoulder of the M40 on November 18, 1993. \n\nA four-point action plan from RoSPA calls for: \n\nA date when the wearing of seatbelts on school minibuses and coaches becomes compulsory, \n\nThe driving hours of volunteers to be regulated \nEscorts on school transport to ensure children wear seatbelts, are properly supervised and do not distract drivers,\n \nAll minibus drivers to take a recognised test, rather than just new drivers Dave Rogers, RoSPA Road Safety Adviser said: "I regularly receive calls from parents who are worried about the state of school minibuses and coaches. They are particularly concerned about whether seatbelts come up to scratch and the general safety of older vehicles. \n\n"Seatbelts in minibuses - and coaches - now have to be checked under the MoT test but it is still not compulsory for them to be worn. \n\n"RoSPA has developed a minibus test which addresses general safety checks on vehicles, and also demonstrates how a minibus will handle very differently to an ordinary car. That is why we believe it is vital that all volunteer drivers should take a special minibus test, not just new drivers. \n\n"There is still nothing to stop volunteers driving a party of school children long distances after they have spent a full day at work and may already be tired. \n\n"RoSPA believes escorts have an important role to play in safety on school transport. This is one of the key issues raised in the code of practice which we have developed on minibus safety."
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Long LONG ago, LOL......seriously, though, when schools started becoming more prevalent out in the West, in the 1800s, apples and other fresh fruit had to be freighted to the settlers.  A teacher was not paid very much at all in those days (sounds kinda like today, actually), sometimes working for just room and board.  An apple was considered a luxury,  so families would send an apple with the student, kind of as payment, since they were also cash poor.  Chickens, or a loaf of baked bread, a cup of sugar, all those "luxuries" were given to the teacher, but most commonly an apple or a pear.  It kind of became a symbol of teachers over the years, and it stuck!   Hope this simply explaination helps....its probably, more definitely, not the FINAL answer to the question, but its what I've heard out here in the "wild west".
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Half-staff or half-mast describes the act of flying a flag approximately halfway up a flagpole (though anywhere from one-third to two-thirds of the way up the flagpole is acceptable). This is done in many countries as a symbol of respect, mourning, or distress.\n\nWhen hoisting a flag that is to be displayed at half-staff, it should be hoisted to full staff for an instant, then lowered to half-staff. Likewise when it is lowered at the end of the day, it is to be hoisted to full staff for an instant, and then lowered.\n\nThe original flag 'etiquette' was to fly the flag at one flag's depth from the top of the hoist. With the larger flags on shorter hoists on public buildings the practice of 'half-mast' has now commonly become to fly the flag at true 'half-mast' regardless of the size of the flag or hoist.
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Schools get a budget every year.  If they don't use up all the money, then they get less the next year.  Its not about being cost effective, its all about using up the money.  Just imagine all the fuel that gets used with all the buses just to have a half of a day of school.
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1971-74. Time flies.\n\nThe "SP's" (Special Programs) were the "smart" kids....the debs became the preps.....the greasers became hoods......the hippies evolved into the yippies (you had to literally "Steal This Book" to be a member). I don't remember the rest. I was too busy getting high, cutting school, and hanging out with my VERY cool bass-player-in-a-rock-band boyfriend. Where have all the good times gone?\n\nNow I have a daughter who is a sophomore. She talks about the goths, the preps, the jocks, the dreaded cheerleaders (some things never change) and the emo's (now THERE is a strange bunch). The only thing that seems different from when I was in high school is that the guys now wear more eyeliner than some of the girls.
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1995. That was the year Coach K had back surgery and didn't coach the team for the full season. Also they were in the midst of rebuilding after losing Grant Hill and bunch of other players around that time.