How much is too far for a school commute?Follow

I have a 120 mile round trip to work every day.

It's oh so fun. But I can't make this much anywhere else, so I don't mind so much.

It says he passed his exam, but the schools near him are full.

Edit: Don't know why they can't just have a slightly overcrowded school for a year, and have the department of education reallocate funds for next year based on each school's population.

Edit 2: Could be so space-overcrowded that they can't physically accomodate any more students without an addition, I suppose.

Edit 3: Remember "Hoop Dreams" the documentary? The kids went to my high school. The film featured their 3-hour commute from inner-city Chicago out to the suburbs (and it's only 17 miles). But it's a private school and it was their choice.



Edited, Mar 6th 2009 3:56pm by trickybeck

Well, here's a story that strikes close to home.

I'm not sure how long it was, but it was up hill. Both ways.

Seriously, though, I was always within a mile of school, or boarding, so I had what I would assume is a non typical experience of never riding on a School Bus to get to school, only for field trips or sports or whatever.

My bus rides were about an hour in the afternoon but only about 15 minutes in the morning.. But that's because of the maze of a path the ride took, went out past my house, back around the lake, then came up the other side to my house finally.

I was one of the last to get on the bus, and one of the last to get off. If they had dropped me off at the local convenience store I could have walked the one mile to my home before the bus made it back around to my actual stop.

Round trip my commute each weekday is about 75miles. It takes 40~60 minutes one way normally depending on traffic. If it snows it takes 2-2.5 hours one way.

When it snows I want to kill myself.. or ram my car into the medians.

That's college though, I walked the .7 miles to my high school until I stole my moms car. XD

Edited, Mar 7th 2009 12:48am by Deadgye

My school commute was around an hour and a half each way. I was one of the first on my bus and it was a hick school *K-12*. I ended up using that time to sleep. (Got on the bus at 7:30 and got to school around 9)

What makes this story worse is that in the UK we don't have the School Bus service that exists in North America.

A few schools here have local buses that pick up within a few miles, but beyond that it's down to the parents to get their kids to school by car, or trust them to get there under their own steam using paid public transport (trains, buses etc.)

The high school that I went to was a private Catholic one and while I was very lucky that my commute was about 15 minutes by car, there were students that traveled more than an hour each way. A few of the students were from very wealthy families that lived in Tijuana and I think they traveled a couple of hours each way, mostly because of the border wait. If I remember right, Bishop's in La Jolla had students from the Los Angeles area that lived with host families during the week and they would go home during the weekends.