My family was on foodstamps too! We even got government cheese and that awful orange juice in a can! Did I just top you?Cool! How many dads did you have?
Oh, and I've just got to say, my food-stamped childhood can out-poverty ANY of you fat-cat suburban kids with your working CARS and your free-standing or semi-detached HOMES and your TWO parent families. So, there!
I win!
But you don't know that. It could be the school's insurance company that demanded the change, not the parents at all.
The only time I ever contacted the bus company to see if something could be changed, was because after more than two years of hiking up hill across a busy road to accompany my kids to their bus stop, I was tired. I wanted to be able to send the kids out to catch the bus on their own, and while I was happy enough to let them play outside on our street by themselves, I was NOT going to have them crossing that major intersection alone. Especially since I've nearly been run over on that corner myself, more than once.
The bus company said sure, no problem, and the new stop was in front of my house. Woot!
I'm not a helicopter parent. I just didn't want to have to stand out in a snowstorm with my first grader. She can stand out there by herself. Cold air is good for kids!
(BTW, I totally agree that parents of adults should not be contacting universities or colleges on their behalf. Except in cases of mental illness or disability.)
and my dad always went to bat for us, ALWAYS! I'm a SNOWFLAKE!! 
You are so not getting it. Here's the post you are referring to.
With each and every attack you make on me, you're proving my point over and over again. I never, at any time, said having two cars make anyone a snowflake. Those are your words, and that's what you're trying to make this about because it suits your purpose. But that's not what I said.
You've got to be kidding" post you make toward me in hopes of belittling my experiences, and apparently the experiences of many people of my age, you're demonstrating my point again and again and again.
I've never seen anything like this. Around here, everyone under a mile walks to school unless the parents drive them, which many do because it is on the way to work. The buses pick up on designated street corners. There are buses that take disabled kids to school, and those do go house to house.
I tend to agree with mhsjax that some people have no clue what they are talking about. It is just another way to say "oh those kids these days. Why, when I was a child, I had to walk to school each day barefoot in the snow, uphill both ways."
I think you hit the nail right on the head, Planogirl. Thank you.
My family was on foodstamps too! We even got government cheese and that awful orange juice in a can! Did I just top you?
. ::sigh:: Never mind.
Wow, this thread has me
What is the term for "overly-sensitive DIS posters"?
I'd tell you but I'd probably get points for it.Wow, this thread has me
What is the term for "overly-sensitive DIS posters"?
It cost them NOTHING extra, to send the bus down a different street. If they'd said no, I would have kept walking the kids to the stop, without complaint. What's wrong with a phone call and a nice question?DING DING DING DING DING!!! We have a winnah!For the 40th time
Oh Maggie, that post was bait for you to pick up. Don't take it, my friend. Walk away.I asked, they said yes.
You will never get ANYTHING nice in life, if you're too afraid to ask.
And the problem wasn't the HILL. It was the intersection. It was listed in the paper as being among the worst in the city. At least once a month, I hear tires screeching and metal crunching at that intersection. My kids weren't allowed to cross it on their own until they were ten.
A sister!
My mom called orange juice "liquid gold" because it was so expensive. Me, I actually like the taste of that bitter canned stuff! There's nothing else quite like it...
