They'd just installed them the year I started sixth grade. Anyone who actually wore them was singled out for ridicule... yeah, it's a good thing I was never on a school bus involved in a crash. ;)

No seat belts for us either.

This was the greatest day of the year. Man did I get in good practice time for my flying dropkick.

We do not do this in Wisconsin. Y'all are WEIRD.

duder, we did it in Racine. You H-land Haters didn't count.

I can't help the fact that our busses were actually just stretch Hummers to help us practice for prom. :p

Seriously though I rode the bus for a few years and I never remember doing this, and I'm sure I would have had to in high school because the big yellow monsters chauffered us to track meets.

Yup, good ol Hobart did it too. We did the tornado drills and all too. I remember the bus drills sucking because I already had an hour busride home and the drills took forever. When I was young they were fun, though :)

I remember bus drills! We did this...when I was young I used to be really afraid to jump out the back door. The driver had to spend like five minutes trying to get me to do it and finally had to pretty much pick me up and carry me out. (I was teeny back then so it was pretty easy to do. :D ) When I was older I stopped being afraid and thought it was fun. I don't remember doing this in junior high or later...just grade school.

I liked doing tornado drills too but I didn't like fire drills, especially when it was cold.

We loved bus evacuation practice day. It got us out of the first 20 minutes of class and we got to grab onto the cute boys from school because they were always the strongest :D. We'd have to hold onto their shoulders to get down. Of course it started to suck when we got the buses with the side exit doors instead of the ones in the back. It wasn't nearly as fun. I didn't set foot on a bus for most of high school because I had a zero bell and had to have my own transportation.

Since when did school buses have seat belts???

Since the mid-1980's, at least in my school district. All the buses were retrofitted with lap belts, and we were required to wear them... but we were just a bunch of little rule-breakers :D

Wow. I thought school bus seat belts were the norm these days.

Nah, there was nothing stopping us from getting a good bounce started before we would hit the big bumps in the road (I had an hour-long busride through country backroads that the state forgot about... full of big potholes and whatnot). If you timed it right, your head would come pretty damn close to hitting the ceiling... man, I wanna go back to elementary school :(

I just asked my friends who went to suburban Milwaukee schools and they never did this either. We did do tornado drills, those were tons of fun! My homeroom in 8th grade was in a trailer so we had to run into the regular building for the drills. :D

I never had to do this. I was attending a Catholic Elementary School. I used Public Transportation.

I just want to know who plans these things... what used to be so much fun, now seems so useless.

I can guarantee that everyone of those children knew how to jump off the bus before they had the drill. sheesh

Yeah but it got you out of a class. :D


Oh and I forgot about the boys helping you off the bus. :D That was a BIG PLUS in high school. :o