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Unfortunately we are one of those families. The bus service is completely unreasonable. They shopped it out to the lowest bidder and the stops are all in terri

Unfortunately we are one of those families. The bus service is completely unreasonable. They shopped it out to the lowest bidder and the stops are all in terrible spots on busy streets. It also takes longer to sit and wait in the cold with a 6 year old than it would be to just drive there and back.

supertrope 2y ago
The post-Covid labor market shift has raised the price of school bus drivers beyond what schools are willing to pay for.
hk1337 2y ago
> It also takes longer to sit and wait in the cold with a 6 year old than it would be to just drive there and back. I don't know how your bus driver would handle it but even back in the 80s, some parents would drive their kids to the bus stop and let them wait in the car until the bus came. As they got older, like 5th or 6th grade, they would be taught to dress warm for the wait.
JumpCrisscross 2y ago
> takes longer to sit and wait in the cold with a 6 year old than it would be to just drive there and back 1st grade is probably too young to wait alone. But by 3rd grade I'd expect a child to be able to bundle themselves up.
- alistairSH 2y ago
  Putting the bus stop on a major road without adequate place to stand is a problem. But a 5 year old is totally capable of waiting for a bus, given the appropriate location to do so. Even more so in a typical suburb, where there's likely several of them waiting at the same place (when I was a kid, we walked half a block to the corner and waiting in a group of ~5-~15 kids).
commandlinefan 2y ago
Our school system wouldn't send buses if you were within two miles of the school. We were (seriously) 1.99 miles away, so we had to drive our kids back and forth.
micromacrofoot 2y ago
Our child was being bullied on the bus by kids twice their age because there was no one other than the driver to monitor. I will not subject a kindergartner to that. One time the bus arrived a full hour late and the people we could call to ask where it was had already went home. I was considering calling the police. Turns out the bus was late because they didn't have enough busses and it had to complete a different route first. School has been enshittified.

supertrope 2y ago

The post-Covid labor market shift has raised the price of school bus drivers beyond what schools are willing to pay for.

hk1337 2y ago

> It also takes longer to sit and wait in the cold with a 6 year old than it would be to just drive there and back. I don't know how your bus driver would handle it but even back in the 80s, some parents would drive their kids to the bus stop and let them wait in the car until the bus came. As they got older, like 5th or 6th grade, they would be taught to dress warm for the wait.

JumpCrisscross 2y ago

> takes longer to sit and wait in the cold with a 6 year old than it would be to just drive there and back 1st grade is probably too young to wait alone. But by 3rd grade I'd expect a child to be able to bundle themselves up.

alistairSH 2y ago
Putting the bus stop on a major road without adequate place to stand is a problem. But a 5 year old is totally capable of waiting for a bus, given the appropriate location to do so. Even more so in a typical suburb, where there's likely several of them waiting at the same place (when I was a kid, we walked half a block to the corner and waiting in a group of ~5-~15 kids).

commandlinefan 2y ago

Our school system wouldn't send buses if you were within two miles of the school. We were (seriously) 1.99 miles away, so we had to drive our kids back and forth.

micromacrofoot 2y ago

Our child was being bullied on the bus by kids twice their age because there was no one other than the driver to monitor. I will not subject a kindergartner to that. One time the bus arrived a full hour late and the people we could call to ask where it was had already went home. I was considering calling the police. Turns out the bus was late because they didn't have enough busses and it had to complete a different route first. School has been enshittified.