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Has your school districts resorted to cutting the bus routes shorter? If they have is it affecting you? Do you think this is a good move on the school's parts to save money? I was reading that in my home town some of the outlying school districts are shortening their bus routes and having more people meet them at road side bus stops to pick up or drop off their children. I haven't decided if I think this is a step in the right direction or if this will increase absences.
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Let the little darlings walk the rest of the way. It's good for them.
I walked in the rain, in the snow, in the ice. My parents were lazy ******** but that's a whole other rant.
I'm more wondering how this affects children living outside of towns in say like farm land areas.
It's hard to tell without specifics. Although I've noticed bus routes these days which are practically door to door. My son's wasn't that bad but it stopped at every street in the neighborhood despite the fact that it's a 30 second walk across maybe four front yards from one block to the next. Some consolidation there might not significantly help but it sure as hell wouldn't hurt.
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Both places we lived never picked up or dropped off door to door. It's always been at the corner of a nearby street. I would need more information on exactly what your town is doing, how far the bus stops are from the kids home, etc. But if it's close to what we do, walking a ways to get to the bus stop, I think it's both a good way to help reduce costs as well as help to get those kids using their legs. Too often now a days kids are chaufferred from door to door and thats not always a good thing.
I'd bring up the whole 'obesity' thing but Katie was a walker... so there goes that theory.
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My kids have to walk to the end of our cul de sac to catch the bus. We live in the back so it's a little more than a block. I'm not aware of a bus stop within two blocks of that one. It seems to me like they are getting a break because when I was in school we walked to the entrance to the subdivision.
There were a few years when they got door-to-door service, but that was luck of the draw. The school district put the bus stop in front of our house.
In general, I don't see a problem with cutting out some bus stops and having the kids walk a little farther to the next one if it gives the school district more money to spend on education.
There were a few years when they got door-to-door service, but that was luck of the draw. The school district put the bus stop in front of our house.
In general, I don't see a problem with cutting out some bus stops and having the kids walk a little farther to the next one if it gives the school district more money to spend on education.
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I can't find the article on the news paper website (something about needing member ship and paying now, blah!) but here is one like it.
The school buses in my mom's neighborhood have been getting shorter. When I was in elementary school the bus came all the way down our road and stopped across from our house. Now, my brother's stepdaughter had to go all the way to the entrance of the development. That may have to do with the fact that she was the only school-age child around here anymore, whereas there were about ten of us in school back in the day.
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I walk my children to school, but that is because England is Ikkle and we can do that.
Here in England, we have a rule (I don't know if it's actually a law or just a guideline, now I come to think of it) - if soemone is further than three miles from their closest school, they have to be given public transport there.
My town's school bus route has been made more mileage efficient, if not more time efficient from a child's perpective. There are fewer buses running their routes, thus forcing the remaining buses to pick up the slack, which in turn means they pick certain children up considerably earlier in the morning and drop them off considerably later in the afternoon.
It was in response to the gas crisis, but now that Cali's state budget is in dire straights, even though gas prices have fallen, the longer routes with fewer buses solution remains.
Totem
It was in response to the gas crisis, but now that Cali's state budget is in dire straights, even though gas prices have fallen, the longer routes with fewer buses solution remains.
Totem
I found the door-to-door buses in America rather annoying. The bus took like an hour to get from our home to school and was full of elementary kids and white trash, and I could've bloody walked to school in 40 minutes instead, but wasn't allowed to.
Here, I've always walked if it was less than two miles, and for farther distances, we fortunately have buses, trams, undergrounds, trains, ferries, "metros" and taxis in town.
Here, I've always walked if it was less than two miles, and for farther distances, we fortunately have buses, trams, undergrounds, trains, ferries, "metros" and taxis in town.
Debalic wrote:
The school buses in my mom's neighborhood have been getting shorter.
Your mom lives around a bunch retards?
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Edited, Jan 15th 2009 4:32pm by Totem
RACK the froggie.
Totem
Edited, Jan 15th 2009 4:32pm by Totem
The school buses I've observed while out and about appear to stop at every frigging driveway for kids. Even if the driveways are adjacent to each other, on either side of a shared property line, the bus will stop at the first driveway, load one child, drive forward eight feet (with all the accompanying flashing lights and extending stop signs) stop, and pick up the other one.
It's insane.
It's insane.
I always had to walk a couple hundred yards to catch the bus, which was pretty much the closest intersection to where I lived. When I got in jr high and high school I would just walk the mile to my house when the weather wasn't horrible, because it was faster than riding the bus.
Our school system when I still went to it did things like this:
Elementary school: Door to Door drop offs and pick ups for everybody that was farther than.. at least half a mile away I think.
Middle School: Single drop off/pick up zone per block basically, starts if your .75 miles from the school or more.
High School: No clue about the drop off/pick ups because my house was less than 1 mile away from the high school which meant I walked.
I think a progression like that is pretty fair, having a single pick up zone for elementary school wouldn't be bad, but I think if they do they should still have door to door drop offs.
Elementary school: Door to Door drop offs and pick ups for everybody that was farther than.. at least half a mile away I think.
Middle School: Single drop off/pick up zone per block basically, starts if your .75 miles from the school or more.
High School: No clue about the drop off/pick ups because my house was less than 1 mile away from the high school which meant I walked.
I think a progression like that is pretty fair, having a single pick up zone for elementary school wouldn't be bad, but I think if they do they should still have door to door drop offs.
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When I rode the bus in middle school, it seemed to be pretty underfunded. I can't fathom door-to-door stops, and I remember being put three to a seat, which was cramped enough without adding my alto sax to the equation.
Kavekk wrote:
Here in England, we have a rule (I don't know if it's actually a law or just a guideline, now I come to think of it) - if soemone is further than three miles from their closest school, they have to be given public transport there.
Our Local Education Authority measured the distance as the crow flies, and our farm was just shy of 3 miles from school so we weren't eligible, even though by road & back lanes it was 3.5 miles. Despite the bus stop being right outside our gate, they wouldn't allow us passes so we walked the 3.5 miles every day.
Bastards.
When me and Mrs Nobby #1 parted company I bought a house less than 1/2 a mile from Draccy & Noblet's school so it's never been an issue.
I am part of a lobby to introduce a US style School Bus service in the UK, not so much to spare the ickle kiddies shoe leather, but more to stop the artarded moms from driving Tarquin & Philomena to school in gas guzzling Chelsea Tractors. My 8-mile drive to work takes 1 to 1.5 hrs thanks to them clogging the roads.
Bastards.
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Yeah, some of the people here are a bit up in arms that Texas passed a law that school buses now have to have seat belts.
Katielynn wrote:
Yeah, some of the people here are a bit up in arms that Texas passed a law that school buses now have to have seat belts.
The school bus stop was the first place I tried smoking cigs, the first place I tried dope, the first place I kissed a boy, the place I broke a rib.
I was bullied, frozen, and rained on. I loved the bus stop.
With my kids we only lived about 3/4 of a mile from the school. My kids had an option of waiting for the bus or walking/biking. For much of their school tenure, if they played me right, I could be talked into dropping them off at the top of the road to their school as it was on my way to work. Both chose to avoid the bus option at all costs.
I was bullied, frozen, and rained on. I loved the bus stop.
With my kids we only lived about 3/4 of a mile from the school. My kids had an option of waiting for the bus or walking/biking. For much of their school tenure, if they played me right, I could be talked into dropping them off at the top of the road to their school as it was on my way to work. Both chose to avoid the bus option at all costs.
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