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I'm a bit curious on school bus thoughts by area. Where I'm at now, it seems like they don't want to run them at all. They put the best schools up as 'choice
by axaxs 7y ago
I'm a bit curious on school bus thoughts by area. Where I'm at now, it seems like they don't want to run them at all. They put the best schools up as 'choice school' lottery, which means no bus, and if you live within two miles of a school, no bus. Even if you offer to pay. Of the 600 students in my child's school, 400 spend 45 minutes in a line twice a day, most due to the circumstances. Obviously not an effective use of time, or good for the environment, I'm a bit taken back by just how awkward bussing is in the US. In my previous city, a bus would travel 45 minutes to pick up a single kid. Neither seems practical, really.
- smelendez 7y agoSame. I grew up on Long Island taking the bus to school, as did every kid of sub-driving age I knew. Under New York law, even private school students got subsidized buses if the school was in some reasonable distance. We watched sitcoms and movies from Pete and Pete to Christmas stories where kids took the yellow bus to school. Now I don't have kids, but plenty of my friends around the country do, and I'm always shocked to learn that school buses don't seem to be an option. Either they just don't exist in the district, or they require kids to cross major commercial roads to get to a stop. The depressing thing to me is parents sort of roll their eyes when I ask, like this reasonable public amenity that everyone I grew up with relied on less than 20 years ago is the equivalent of the neighborhood milkman.