How do you kids get to school?

[taximomfor4]

My elementary kids are walkers (about 5 blocks north, and 1 block west.) There are no streetlights or sidewalks even though these are residential and busy streets. I live on a corner lot, so there is a stopsign in the corner of my yard. The school bus that picks kids up further away stops at this stop sign (all of them along the way), and there are tons of empty seats on the bus...so they let kids get on at those stops. We did have to sign up and get bus passes, though. It picks them up at 8:17, and gets them to school at 8:35. Coming home, they are right at the beginning of the route so school lets out at 2:55, and they get home around 3:01.

MY Jr High dd takes a bus too, but we really do live farther away. It picks her up at 7:50 and gets her to school at 8:30. Coming home, her school lets out at 3:30 and she gets home at 3:50. My biggest problem with THAT bus is the over crowding. There are 3 to a seat, and kids in the aisles. Since you have to have a bus pass to ride the bus, and can only ride your own, this means that the school planned the route to pick up more kids than the bus could safely hold.

 

[CindyKansas]

DD is a Junior and she drives herself to school. She goes to a rural K-12 school, but it's only about a 5 minute drive from our place.

 

[Planogirl]

We live 1.9 miles from our son's school and he isn't allowed on the bus since the distance isn't quite 2 miles. He doesn't ride a bike and has to cross a few busy streets so I take him or we use a kid transport service for when I have to work.

I can't imagine walking almost two miles in any kind of weather carting books and whatnot!

 

[Mishetta]

Both my DS's take the school bus.

DS (10) ~ bus ride is 30 minutes each way

DS (4) ~ bus ride is 20 minutes each way

I drive when my oldest has a special project or gift for teachers that I don't want him to knock around on the bus.

Very rarely do I drive my DS 4 because if I drive him, then he has trouble separating from me. He has no trouble leaving me to jump on the bus though!

 

[JVL1018]

I voted walk..but it's walk and drive.
On M/W/F I walk my daughter back and forth to school(it's 2 blocks away)
On T/Th because my son has preschool that starts 2 minutes after her school and gets out 5 minutes before, I have to drive to get them there and pick them up on time.

ETA we don;t even have bussing except for special ed.
Our town is 2.2 square miles and we have 5 elementary schools, no one is far enough away from their school to necessitate buses.
The middle and high schools are in the middle of toen, so no bussing there either.

 

[debloco]

Preschool~ Drove DD (10 min each way)

4 y.o.-4th grade~ Drove DD to a private school (30 min. each way)

6th-8th~Bus (10-15 min. each way) although sometimes I would pick her up.

9th~Drove in the AM (for extra sleep time, almost an hour) bus in the afternoon.

10th~Drove in the AM (for extra sleep time, almost an hour) started picking her and her friends up in the afternoon.

11th~She got her license in October and drives herself! Hallelujah!

 

[slo]

I voted for other because I take my DD 1/2 the time and the other 1/2 of the time she rides the bus.

 

[disneylizzy]

Both DS13 & DS16 walk to school (two different directions), unless it is pouring rain and I take pity on them. It's good exercise!

 

[mannasn]

My kids go to a small private school, so I have to drive them. It's about 20 minutes
(round trip) from my house.

 

[froglady]

DS attends private school on the other side of town. It takes me 30 minutes in the AM, because I'm in rush hour traffic. At off times, it takes 10 minutes.

My children have always been in private school, so except for one year when I carpooled, and another when I was on bedrest, I've driven them. After the carpool from hell, I decided that it was less stressful to just drive them myself. My neighbor is my "back up" driver, so my son can still get back or forth if something happens to me.

 

[SunFloridaDisney]

2 DD's walk in nice weather, but this time of year I drive them, some days they get a ride home with a neighbor when I'm at work.

DS in high school is in a carpool, so I drive them home 3 days/week. He'll get his license this month (provided he passes the test!!) so then that will help since he'll be able to drive himself and pick up his sisters from time to time.