SHUT SCHOOLS DOWN AGAIN NOW!
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School buses are minor issues. I just moved to north Raleigh off Creedmoor Rd. I made the mistake of going out at 3:00 pm last week, and the parents picking school kids up had traffic virtually locked down in a couple of areas. I have to:
1) map out the schools in my area
2) not venture out during delivery and pickup times.
1) map out the schools in my area
2) not venture out during delivery and pickup times.
If you use Waze, report the traffic back-ups and it learns the routine. Car line is a complete cluster at the school my kids attend, and I pity the people who try to use that road for their daily commute.
Furrealz, guys. The school is two miles from my house and I use an alternate route between 230 and 400 to avoid it. The alternate adds maybe 3 miles to my distance but cuts minimum 20 minutes off the drive total.
Chriselalto
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Car lines are dumb. Put your not very special child on the bus and be a normal person.
Hell, I learned to fight on a bus. I learned about parties in HS on a bus. In middle school my GF rode the bus with meš.
Little Billy or Suzie can ride the bus.
Hell, I learned to fight on a bus. I learned about parties in HS on a bus. In middle school my GF rode the bus with meš.
Little Billy or Suzie can ride the bus.
The school that I referenced does not offer bussing. Most charter schools don't because even though they are publicly funded schools, they do not fall under the district umbrella insurance policy for bussing.
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This.....
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Same.....
What aggravates me is when the bus stops at every driveway and the kids walk with no purpose or effort to the bus delaying the 50 cars waiting on him/her to get on it
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oh to be 10 again without a care in the world š
Wow maybe that's the actual reason people don't put their kids on the bus.
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I got behind one last week where the dad ran out to have some sort of chat with the bus driver before the kid came out. I have no idea what it was about but I was like, "Really?"
The bus didnāt stop at every house when I was a kid. We had a bus stop. We walked a block or 2 over to meet it with 10 or so other kids. If you were not there when the bus driver pulled up and was ready to go you were left there.
Chuckman
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Same. And if you weren't there when the bus stopped--if you were running to the bus, 50 feet away--they left you.
We were rural, bus stops were at the end of your driveway, but houses were a long way apart lol. Fwiw if you werenāt at the highway or at least walking down the driveway when the bus driver was approachingā¦he didnāt even slow down!
Iāve sat behind busses the past few years (same area) where there is no one in sight, bus pulls up, stops, blows the horn and waitsā¦few minutes later the kids come outside and slowly make their way down the drive.
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Yall had it easy. We rode horses bareback to the bus stop, then turned them into the pasture. The walk home was a long one. About a mile and a half.
Yup, with a dog chasing you.
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I had a friend who earned himself a three day suspension on his first day of high school (about 1971) because they wouldn't let freshman drive to school and park in the lot, even if they were 16 and had a car. So he rode a horse to school and tied it to the flagpole out front. š
Iāve been working from home since this whole thing started, so I was rudely reminded of normal school/bus traffic the few times I drove to the office recently.
Same for driving anywhere around 5p. I forgot what traffic was like haha.
Same for driving anywhere around 5p. I forgot what traffic was like haha.
What did he get suspended for? Was āno horses on school propertyā outlined in the student handbook? That mustāve been a hilarious disciplinary review!
Nothing in America should have been shut down for this virus.
Containment is just another form of control.
Containment is just another form of control.
We were able to get a farm license at 14, but you had to be driving for farm business . I'd drive the 2.5 ton truck to school and load up with silage on the way home, at 14yo.
When the weather was too bad for the busses many of us rode horses to school.
There were no days where a frog peed on the road and it froze, so let's cancel school.
If you could get there. School was in session.
We also were excused for 2 weeks during harvest season, could arrive late during hunting season, and excused 2 weeks during planting season.
.gov schools these days are a total joke.
Did you wait for the bus at a bus stop in Duluth MN in the (cold) early 70's? If so, you'd acknowledge that's not too far off base: well, maybe the barefoot part, but walking a distance and waiting in some very cold weather and snowfall was the norm.
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Same. but at least i was in the suburbs. I'd walk to the first stop in my neighborhood. And no, they wouldn't let you on in between, stops, but they'd all wave at you as they went by. if i saw the bus go by while i was walking to the stop, i RAN to the 3rd stop, because i'd have just enough time to get there. Bus did basically a "V" through the neighborhood. Stop 2 was at the bottom of the V.
and since it was before everybody had cell phones, in the coldest part of winter, we didn't know if school was cancelled or the bus was late because of the winter storms. standing out there in a michigan winter after trudging a few blocks through knee deep snow, having your hair get frozen. There's a reason i didn't switch to boxers until after i started driving myself around!
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our snow closures were determined by the superintendent
the superintendent drove a 4x4 bronco or jimmy, i forget which.
if he made it to the office, school was on, even if there weren't teachers able to make it to school.
@dmarbell has the right of it regarding Creedmoor road - been bad and getting worse for years (I've had to commute that for over a decade as there's not a lot of choice to get between northern Wake/Granville counties and downtown (other than New Light/Six Forks which is just as bad).
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Nope. Kid was standing on the porch with Mom. It was the oddest thing...
I got stuck behind a school bus that was following a garbage truck this morning.... we stopped at every house for 2 blocks before i could side street it and make my escape. That took 15 minutes.... double whammy
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if it was just the bus Iām sure itād be fine, just the volume of traffic on the road ensures that there is always some idiot nearby.
I confess that the idiot is sometimes in my car, but only because there is another idiot in front of my car.
I confess that the idiot is sometimes in my car, but only because there is another idiot in front of my car.
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I don't recall the specific violation. Probably broke the "has better sense of humor than school administration" clause.
Mid-October ā¦ that will be long enough for school systems to secure the state and federal funds for the year ā¦ then they can go back to the Zoom classroom setup. It will save schools more money than people realize. No gas, wear & tear and driver salaries for buses. No heating or cooling for school buildings. School lunch programs aināt free. Along with other administrative and facilities cost
Nope.
A - they still delivered food to kids (buses/gas/hourly wages for said drivers PLUS the other staff on board - when I volunteered to go with them there were 3 on the bus. One driver and two of us to deliver)
B - well, they are still buying food for kids (food costs)
C - they had/will have teachers in the building because, well, they dont trust us at home. (heating/cooling)
Just saying.
Our district started last week. Fine, if that's what it takes to keep them in the classroom, bring some masks back, whatever.
They're annoying, I dont like them, but I HATED the kids not being there, it hurt SO MANY.
I got a girl in my 4th, she's retaking a class she took in the spring of this year. In the spring she did so little...she was fully remote.
This year, she's right at an A average in the first three weeks and I think she'll be fine. She's actually got it 'harder'/doing more work than before, but the difference is now shes LEARNING.
Another kid failed almost every class last year (8 classes per year, 4 per semester, He failed 6 or 7). He should be a Junior, but he's still a sophomore. But, now, back in school, he's doing AWESOME, one of my favorites from 4th period.
Understand in NC they said we couldnt require zoom meetings etc, so many just did their stuff whenever. They'd tell their parents, "it's not due till midnight, Ill get it..." Well the submission times got later and later and, eventually, they quit.
KEEPING kids there is integral to their success and education. If it takes me/us being a little annoyed by a mask - fine.