NotUrsula
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In the 70's when I was in HS I rode my school bus for nearly 4 hours daiily. This was a rural route in a state with rather little money.
The HS was about 3 miles as the crow flies from my home, but most of that was over farm fields; going around by road incrreased the distance to about 9 miles. After practices I sometimes walked home, and when I did I went cross-country with the property owner's permission, that was much faster.
Our school hours were 7:30 am - 2:30 pm. In the morning we were picked up at 6 and were some of the first ones on, the bus then went around and picked up enough kids to fill up the bus (headed for 4 different schools: the private school in town paid the county to bus their kids to one of the grade schools, from whence they were picked up by a shuttle), and were dropped off first at the HS at about 7:20, after which the bus continued on to drop off at other schools. After school we had to race to make the bus because it left at 2:35. We dropped off some kids who lived in-town, then at 3 pm headed to the elementary and middle schools to pick up enough kids to fill the bus again. We routinely got home at 4:55 after making all those stops.
The HS was about 3 miles as the crow flies from my home, but most of that was over farm fields; going around by road incrreased the distance to about 9 miles. After practices I sometimes walked home, and when I did I went cross-country with the property owner's permission, that was much faster.
Our school hours were 7:30 am - 2:30 pm. In the morning we were picked up at 6 and were some of the first ones on, the bus then went around and picked up enough kids to fill up the bus (headed for 4 different schools: the private school in town paid the county to bus their kids to one of the grade schools, from whence they were picked up by a shuttle), and were dropped off first at the HS at about 7:20, after which the bus continued on to drop off at other schools. After school we had to race to make the bus because it left at 2:35. We dropped off some kids who lived in-town, then at 3 pm headed to the elementary and middle schools to pick up enough kids to fill the bus again. We routinely got home at 4:55 after making all those stops.
