How did you get to school?

[Pembo]

As the day approaches that I have to put my ds on the school bus for the first time, I wonder how many of us rode a bus to school? DH & I both walked to school or had our parents drive us. No busing in our towns.

 

[FOJMO]

I never rode a school bus in my entire life. When I was in elementary school, I lived on a farm and the school bus didn't come out that far, so my Mom drove us to school and picked us up.

When we moved to the "city" (Allentown, PA), we lived in walking distance of both the elementary school and the high school.

Our DD took the bus up until last year (HS Junior) and then she got her driver's license and bought her own car and drives to school now (and everywhere else).

 

[Gette88]

I walked until high school then got a bus.

 

[disneyjunkie]

I never rode a school bus. I walked to elementary school, took the city bus to junior high school and took the subway to high school.

 

[RUDisney]

I walked to elementary and middle school... back in the olden days, when it was safe to send a 7 yo off by herself. I was driven to HS until I got my license and then I drove myself because it was across town.

I drive my kids to school. They'd have to be up and out too early if they took a bus vs. me driving them.

 

[Beauty]

I went to a small Private School and we didn't have a bus. My mom took me until I got my own car and then I drove myself.

John-Cole goes to the same school I did and they STILL don't have a bus...LOL! I take him and pick him up from school.

 

[2bemarried]

My mom always drove me to school in the mornings and then I took the bus to the lady that watched me after school or the bus to my grandmothers house. Drove to school once I got my license.

 

[Rajah]

My choice isn't there. How about all three?

I grew up in Utah, and when there, I would walk to school when it wasn't snowing, and be a car rider when it was. About half the time once I got in Jr High, my mom or another car pool driver took us in.

When we moved to Texas, I became a bus rider most of the time. I lived way too far to safely walk (or, more accurately, there were two major streets to cross without a light, so it was deemed safer to drive/bus than to walk). Occasionally, one of my parents would drive me in or give me a ride home.

So, I've done all three.

 

[tiggerlover]

K-1: school bus
2-5: walked
6-11:school bus
12: drove

 

[Chicago526]

I really did walk to school up hill, both ways! The school was a mile from the house, and in between I had to walk down hill, then up again to get there, and down the hill I climbed that moring and up again to get home. And being in Chicago, it raining in the fall, snowed in the winter, and roasted in the spring....


That was grade school and junior high. High School was so far away I rode the bus for an hour. No kidding! I had to be up at 5:30 every morning to make the 6:30 bus for 7:30 classes.

My future kids will get no mercy, heh heh heh!

 

[Disney Ella]

I lived in a rural area and always had to ride a bus. There were a lot of hills so you could count on the bus getting stuck at least once each winter. Once we were stuck on the bus for two hours. Unfortunately it was at the end of the day.

 

[Towncrier]

The middle school that I attended was just 2 blocks from my house. But the brand new high school was on the edge of town and it was a little over a mile to/from school. On the days that I couldn't ride my bicycle, I walked.

Fast forward to my kids. The K through 4th grade elementary school that they attended was literally at the end of our street. And they were required to ride the bus. Our school system has what has been catagorized at "Cadillac" bussing. No child has to walk more than a couple hundred feet to a bus stop. And they whine about walking that far.

I guess that my mom walked about 5 miles to/from school when she was growing up.

I wonder if my grandkids will even have to leave home to go to school.

 

[peg2001]

Bussed to elementary school, car ride to junior high, walked/car to high school.

Peggy

 

[Evil Princess]

Bus through high school, then my parents and my best friend drove me to high school the first two years. Junior year my boyfriend drove me, senior year I drove myself.

 

[DonnaS]

In elementary school, I walked. In junior high, I took a bus. In high school, I walked.

 

[ChibiJones]

I went to private, Catholic schools for grade school & high school. so no bus. One of my parents drove all four of us every day.

We did experiment with me taking the public bus home from high school, but it took forever, I transferred at an isolated spot & if I missed the first transfer I had to sit there for 1/2 hour until the next bus came. Not fun if you're a teen in a Catholic school girl's uniform. After a few weeks of being leered at by creeps, I refused to take the bus anymore.

After I got my driver's license, it was my responsibility to pick up my brother & sisters every day.

 

[Yzma and Kronk]

I was lucky - elementary school and middle school were right across the street. In the winter we would wait at home for the bell to ring, and then head out for the long walk (10 seconds!)
In high school I had to brave the long walk (up hill both ways) LOL - it was a block away about 5 minute walk! I lived so far away from H.S. that I never went home for lunch
(I was a little social butterfly and afraid I'd miss something, I guess )
I never got up for school before 8am! Those were the days!

 

[Mjasp]

Not only uphill both ways, but how about in 2 feet of snow when the schools never closed back then.

 

[dizneenut]

In elementary school I walked, junior high I was in a car pool, and in high school I walked. I got an occasional ride and when I got my license, I drove myself.

 

[julie_yet]

[color=3300ff]I walked and was driven to elementary school. I took a bus to middle school. And I was home schooled during my high school years.[/color]