Several injured in school bus wreck

I am a bus driver and 40mph is the law with kids on bus on route, but field trips,etc, you can drive 55mph. 35mph for dirt roads. First of all, on the kids conduct. Standing or being out of your seat is considered minor by the system. 1st time, a driver has to call parent/2nd time a driver has to send parent note home/3rd time a driver writes up to school, the school slaps the child's hand with ISS(where they get to get out of regular class and are given busy work)/the 4th time the child is finally suspended for 1 day. This is ridiculous. The driver has to keep a student log and record dates and offenses. You either have to pull over and write all this down as it happens or wait til you get home, and take time away from your family to call someone else about their child. I am one though, who follows all these steps, and wrote a child up 5 times plus doing the parent contacts. he was suspended off my bus for 5 days twice, 3 days once, and one day, and the child still rides the bus. We do all this paperwork, pull video tapes showing the kid's conduct, and the system does nothing, and it's all because we took God and the rod out of our schools, and trust me, it's gonna get worse. My grandfather drove a bus for years, and you didn't act that way on his bus. Parents and the schools have forgotten that it is a priveledge to ride the bus, not a state law. some think, that just because they pay taxes, their kid can act any ol way, and still ride the bus. Now, on the speeding, I am not at all defending the drivers speeding(myself included) there should be no excuse, but let me explain something. Some of our routes have almost 70 kids and 30 miles of traveling one way. we can't pick up the smaller children until 6:40/6:45, but we have to be at school by 8:00. you do the math. In the afternoons, the parents don't want their kindergarten child riding a bus for 1hr or longer, and i don't blame them, but there again, you get in your car, drive clear across the county at 40mph, make 70 stops along the way, and don't just stop and start, but stop long enough for a child to come from the back of the bus and safely walk away from bus, and you have personnel at the schools coming on radio wanting to know if they are clear to go home, because they have to stay until all buses are clear. And one other note, Field trips. The schools plan trips to downtown Atlanta, which don't get me wrong, i enjoy them as much as the kids do, but you can't leave school til roll is called, so it's usually 9am before bus pulls out, then you have to leave Alanta by 1pm to get back to school by 2:30 to pick up kids going home. If there is any delay what so ever, child is lost, traffic, break-down, etc, you show me how you are going to get a bus from downtown Atl to Zebulon driving 55mph by 2:30. Transportation dept in any school is red-headed step child. And this breaks my heart to know Children Safety is being overlooked. Pike county is still running "1995" buses on regular routes, but the state inspects them and gives the ok (ha!) We got to one point this year, that we had no spare buses. If another bus would have broke down, there was no spare bus to replace it. In a perfect world, Pike county would have enough money to buy enough buses and hire enough drivers to shorten routes and numbers, and again I'm not defending, espcially, if warnings had been given and were ignored, but this job is not as easy as people think, and i personally know each driver, and trust me pike county, you've got the best drivers in the world, who have your children's safety wrapped around their heart and always will.