WHEREAS, nearly 400,000 children in Alabama's public elementary and secondary classrooms get to school every day by riding one of 6,748 yellow school buses; and
 
WHEREAS, those buses annually travel a total of nearly 67 million miles; and
 
WHEREAS, the National Safety Council cites school buses as being 172 times safer than transportation via a passenger automobile, eight times safer than passenger trains or scheduled airlines, and four times safer than transit or inter-city buses; and
 
WHEREAS, student safety is the primary concern of parents, bus drivers and school officials:
 
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, That the State Board of Education hereby endorses School Bus Safety Week, October 18-24, 1998, and urges all Alabama motorists to learn and obey the rules of school bus safety every day.