How's this for a school bus schedule?

[tar heel]

My high school student's bus is coming at 6:30 a.m. and his little brother's elementary bus exactly two hours later at 8:30 a.m.! I feel like I've already put in a full day's work when I leave the house.

Schools in our system share buses; that is most buses run a route for an early opening school and one for a late-opening school. Our high school opens at 7:30 and elementary at 9 a.m.

I've just sent an e-mail to the high school principal. We live 10 minutes from the high school (big neighborhood -- lots of students). The bus is leaving our neighborhood and traveling AWAY from the school to get more kids. The bus also has arrived at school more than 30 minutes EARLY both days it's followed this schedule.

 

[Mskanga]

Our school district also share buses and they pick up high school students at 6:10 , intermediate students at 7:15 and elementary at 8:15 , they also come home at different times, it's always been like that.

 

[HisEllyNelly]

The route the bus follows is probably the safest and most logical route to take. It may not seem that way to you, but there are many factors involved in planning a bus route.I know from experience that if you dont like when your child is picked up, you will probably be told to drive them yourself. Getting to school a half hour early is not too much of a problem, but since school probably just started...give the buses and the drivers time to work out any bugs in the route...it takes about a week or so.

 

[dg39]

Same thing happened to us last year. The school budget didn't pass so there was no money to buy any new buses. All the schools in the township share the buses. The middle school started first then the elementary school, then the primary. After getting up extra early and having some kids waiting in the dark in the morning at the bus stop, when the next election came, everyone voted and the budget passed. We now are back to normal and have regular bus and school hours.

 

[mrsmom]

Be lucky you have buses , here our HS students have to get to school the best way they can. Lucky my Hs. graduated last yr , it was a pain taking her and picking her up.
My Middle school leaves at 6:45 his school starts at 7:30 and my elementary kids leave at 8:10 and start at 8:30.
They need to change times of routes.
Kim

 

[JessetheCowgirl]

Originally posted by tar heel
My high school student's bus is coming at 6:30 a.m. and his little brother's elementary bus exactly two hours later at 8:30 a.m.! I feel like I've already put in a full day's work when I leave the house.

Schools in our system share buses; that is most buses run a route for an early opening school and one for a late-opening school. Our high school opens at 7:30 and elementary at 9 a.m.

I've just sent an e-mail to the high school principal. We live 10 minutes from the high school (big neighborhood -- lots of students). The bus is leaving our neighborhood and traveling AWAY from the school to get more kids. The bus also has arrived at school more than 30 minutes EARLY both days it's followed this schedule.

Wow! I thought our 7:00 and 8:00 schedule was bad

 

[shortbun]

I pickup my first high schooler at 5:58am. That's the way my
route came to me this year. Yuk! I have to leave the compound
1/2 hour prior to get there on time. I have to get to the compound a 1/2 hour prior to that and if anything is wrong with
my bus(lights, leaks, brakes) I don't have time to check another
bus even at that. I am required to follow the schedule they
gave me for 10 days as some people take their children to school
the first couple of weeks so changes-even if the kids don't ever
show up at the stop-don't start getting turned in until the third
week of school to accomodate everyone. I can't change my route on my own because kids get used to what I'm doing and if I need
a sub-they only follow the prescribed plan, leaving children behind.
If I don't get my highschoolers to school at least 15 minutes
before school starts, they complain-loudly. They like their
social time.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Early is GOOD! It is late that is bad. Our buses are shared as well and some have been late.
I hope they get it together.

 

[MagicalMom]

I get up at 5:45 & get my DD up. She leaves the house at 6:30. Then I take a quick nap until 7:15. At 7:15 I get the boys up & drive DS to school. It will be much worse in a couple of years when I'll have 1 in HS, 1 in middle school & 1 in Kindergarten! Now that will be stressful.

 

[Az Pirates]

Originally posted by MagicalMom
It will be much worse in a couple of years when I'll have 1 in HS, 1 in middle school & 1 in Kindergarten! Now that will be stressful.

Hey, I can top that now!

1 in high school
1 in middle school
1 in elementary - full day of course
1 in kindergarten - 1/2 day

I only have one child who rides the bus both ways most every day. Still working out the rest.

 

[AlexandNessa]

In our town, if you live less than 2 miles from the school, you don't get bussed at all, unless you have special needs. This includes grade school and high school.

 

[tar heel]

In North Carolina, the no-busing rule applies to 1 mile. I don't think it's always enforced, though, when busy roads are involved.

 

[monarchsfan16]

My freshman year the bus was scheduled to come at 6:30 for me. It came every day at 6:10. So for almost the entire year I waited in the dark, and there are no streetlights here either. I got to school about 6:45-7 am everyday, and classes don't even start until 7:45. My sister got picked up a little after 7 and was at school 30 minutes early for her 8 am start. Stepsis got picked up a little after 8 am, for a 9 am start. We share busses too. Now there's a different bus company and the middle school busses are not the same busses used for high school, so it's not the same, but it was pretty bad.

 

[my3girlstoo]

Wow, I'll never complain about my kids ( kindergarten and 4th grade)having to ride with the high schoolers again. Mine get on the bus at 7:30 get to school at 7:45( 4th public school)and 7:50( kindergartener parochiol school),(we actually live 5 min. from school).Then the bus goes on to the high school 20 minutes away. My 4th grader in public elementary has a breakfast program so she eats breakfast at school. Might send a bagged breakfast for kindergartener not sure how to work that yet. Going home though my kids are at school 1/2 hr. after school ends to wait for buses from high school, then spend hour on bus. So they don't get home till 1 1/2hrs. after school ends even though we live 5min. away. I try to pick them up at least 2 days a week.