No More Texting for School Bus Drivers
School bus drivers would be banned from texting
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No more texting for Miami-Dade bus drivers.
The texting ban has reached the yellow buses of Miami-Dade County.
A school board member has proposed that all school employees not be allowed to text while driving a county-issued vehicle or on school business.
So no more cheating on Mapquest for the quickest routes or checking for traffic updates for you, bus driver.
The new rule would apply every school board employee except the school resource officer, who can text willy nilly while patrolling school grounds littered with little kids who don't pay attention to where they are going.
It doesn't make a lot of sense for the person that may be responsible for enforcing the rule to be exempt from it, but the stipulation is in the proposal.
The School Board will vote on the measure Tuesday and it would be difficult to see how it wouldn't pass. Officials are calling it a safety issue, not an anti-social networking thing.
Bus drivers wouldn't be allowed to use iPhones, Blackberrys or their cell phones while they ferry students around, according to the Miami Herald.
Posted Monday, Nov 16, 2009 - 8:26 PM EST
