I think it isn't 9 kids "two" individual seats but 9 kids two seats that are supposed to seat 2 kids a piece...ie. 9 kids into 4 seats; or 5 more butts than seats.

It is done all the time here in Portland. My kids bus takes close to 60 kids home every afternoon with only 20 seats(desgined to seat 40).

I'm very interested now.
The smallest bus I ever drove was what we fondly called a "bread box"
and it had... six seats

four facing the normal way that you expect, the the very first two facing inside like what I see as typical public transit.
I was taught that an average school bus seat could hold up to three elementary children.
(In fact, as a parent, have rode the bus with two elementary children sharing the bench with them.)

And as high schooler you could get three on a bench if you wanted to be cozy. Four if you were all thin. But you were very cozy.

Nine in the last two seats... one long seat? Did the children not want to be separated?
Maybe the youngers didnt want to leave the olders?

As I said, I'm very curious now.

Were the kids who sat up front


?

I don't follow all these posts with math and butt counts, I think the answer lies in a different tact - Do you want to do their mother?

Interesting...

Here is another story...

The government has left "Evolution Biology" off of a list of acceptable fields of study for recipients of a federal education grant.

Officials claim it was an accident. Yeah right, sure it was.

So it looks like, personally I'm willing to give a faceless bus driver the benefit of the doubt, but I've already convicted the evil bureaucrats in my mind.

I always thought the 3 high schoolers to a seat thing was a load of crap. Even in jr. high when they expected it on a field trip, some poor bugger was one-bunning it.

2 kids to a seat. Period.

With proper ankle restraints, you can get 4 to a seat

Urban Dictionary has some fun things to say about "school bus drivers" too :)

Tightest I've ever gone is 4 to a seat in freshmen year. That was painful.

When I rode the bus in Jr. High, the bus driver would ignore if you tried to sit by him/talk to him. Of course, this was the same guy who would, halfway through the trip home, turn BACK to the school if he thought it was too loud in the bus (which was, apparently, anything louder than a whisper).

Plus the bus always broke down. It sucked.

I pulled over to the side of the road if it was too loud.

if the bus was a tolerable noise level the kids could have the radio station they wanted.
They got loud, they got classical.
They got too loud, they got a bus driver that sat on the side of the road.

On the other hand, I did talk to my kids. ;)