Law suit avoidance

My school district requires bus drivers to collect "authorization to ride" slips from the students each year. Just another one of those tasks that bus drivers find out about after they sign on and start driving a route. Sub drivers don't have to fool with this. Getting these slips back from the students is like pulling teeth. Some students give them back right away, about half, and the rest offer varying degrees of resistance up to and including eventually threatening them with suspending bus riding privileges altogether. It is no fun. First you have to get them to actually perform the task, then you have to decipher the writing and determine to the best of your ability what their name actually is. That is what I'm in the middle of right now. We get four hours pay to do it but it is not worth it. Much more than that goes into the project. It is all due to the litigious society that we have evolved into. There are undoubtedly law firms out there that specialize in filing suit against school districts that don't get parental permission before transporting students on the bus. Of course that is the driver, law suit avoidance. Isn't that usually the case.