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“Making sure the mirrors are in compliance is up to each super-
visor, driver, trainer and each system,” Fischer said. “You must do it in-house.” Fischer said buses are brought in for periodic inspections and suggested that the person performing the inspection may check the mirrors, but will overlook checking the mirror settings. He said that if the inspector checks off the mirrors without checking the settings, then the inspector is just as negligent as the driver should an incident occur. Cassell said it is everybody’s responsibility to teach students safe behavior around the school bus, but that might be the crux of the problem to begin with. “When something is everybody’s responsi- bility, it is nobody’s responsibility,” Cassell said. “Tey all assume the others are doing it. “As we studied the child fatalities in the past 12 years, in almost
every case, had the child acted safely, the tragedy would have been avoided.” DeCarlo agreed that training is the key and praised her district’s
support for her efforts. She said driver shortages put pressure on supervisors to fast-track undertrained drivers. Scheduling demands also can cause drivers to hurry on their routes and make careless mistakes. In the end, the industry must be more tolerant. “No kid should die on the way to their entitled education,”
DeCarlo said. “We are a business and we should not be killing our clients.” ●
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At first glance, a check of the right cross view mirror appears to indicate the Danger Zone around the school bus is free of any obstacles, or lingering students. But a closer examination shows a big problem with that assumption.
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