Government should provide free school buses

The purpose of writing this essay is to inform the importance of providing free school busses to the students by our Malaysian government. As we all know, the bus has subsequently become a major mode of transportation despite of cars, motorcycles and other vehicles, particularly for transporting children to school. More children must be entitled to free transport to take them to schools and our government should take this matter into consideration. Some of the students who attend far schools and live within one or more miles away of the school do not receive free bus transportation. Therefore, they rarely can go to schools and some even quit from attending schools because they cannot afford to pay the bus costs. Hence, all the children who are eligible to free transportation to and from school because they live one miles away, or in an area which is approved as perilous routes like rural areas in every states of our country, should be notified of the free busses by our Malaysian government. The government should take initiative to study and make any amendment if possible because they have to consider that no students should be prevented from going to school of their choices simply because of travel costs that can only affect their academic achievement.
First thing first, those students who come from high-income families do not have any transportation problems because for them money is not a big problem. However, the poorer ones will find difficulty in paying the bus fees because they do not have enough money even to their daily fulfillment. Nowadays, free bus places are now allocated according to where families live rather than their economic status. All children who live more than three miles from their school have the right to a free bus place.One attempt that the government should do is giving subsidies school busses that will be free for all pupils receiving free school meals.Owing to that all of these students come from unfortunate families. By doing so, it will give benefits to all not just for students but also to the school academic achievement because the students have been encouraged to go to schools with an easy way and do not have any obstacles along their ways to schools.
Government should provide free school buses in school, when we look in certain way, providing school buses for students are important in order to ensure the safety of the students. Essentially, school buses are the safest forms of school transportation for children. Compared with cars or transit buses, school buses are involved in significantly fewer accidents, injuries, and fatalities. Students who live far from school or who live in rural area, sometime will have problem to get a public bus or other transportation to school especially in the morning because at that time, all people rush for their own destination and the students might not have chances to ride the transportation. Same goes to students who are not wealth, they can not afford to take public transportation and they tend to walk to school even though they live far from school. Children especially the younger ones, have normally not yet developed the mental capacity to fully embrace the danger and consequences of crossing safety without adult supervision. A child cannot legally be held accountable for negligence for this reason. By providing free school buses, the students do not have to use other transportation to school and in the same time the parents will not be worry about their children’s safety. School bus safety officials are aware that many accidents occurred when traffic was not aware that the hazard existed, and children on foot were hit by other vehicles. The standardized yellow color helped and warning lettering was painted in large letters on school buses. Several devices were developed to help school bus drivers warn other motorists. Providing free school buses for students not only to ascertain their safety on the road but in the other hand, it will avoid them from any other possibilities and problems like kidnapping, raping or murdering that involve the students.
Furthermore, punctuality of the students is one of the reasons why government should provide free school buses. Nowadays, most parents are working to give better education and style of living for their children. They tend to have less time to spend with their children. The lack of time make them cannot send their children to school, thus the children need to walk if they want to go to school. Walking to school will take lengthy time than driving. So, this will make the students being not punctual to enter classes. If, working parents send their children to school, same thing will be happen. They will send their children a bit late because of times cramp. Therefore, if the government provides free school bus, it will be easy for the parents and the children because the parents do not need to send their children to school and the children will not be late to come to school.
In conclusion, government should provide free school buses because to ensure the safety of the students, to help poor students and to make sure the students are punctual to come to school. Moreover, it will not be a waste if the government provides free school buses because it is for our own benefits too. When the student’s safety is in control, the number of crime or kidnapped can be reduce. Nevertheless, for the poor students who live far away from their school, they can have an opportunity to go to school if the government provides free school buses since they do not need to pay the fee for transportation. So, the government can create an environment where everybody has an opportunity to study even they are from poor family. We are living in modern country so the opportunity to study for everybody should be equal. Government cannot focus only for the high class people only, they need to consider about lower class people too. Since, free text book and fee for school are provided, why can’t the government provide free school buses because a lot of benefits can be gain from it. Therefore, government should provide free school buses for the need of the students.