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School bus did not stop on or near our street. I drove the kid to school every day until he got his license. Waiting in traffic to drop him off sucked but I got to spend time with him .
LOL reminds me of the drop off days with my kids... we always lived too close for bus service, and it was nice to spend time , but the drop off lines at the school... nightmares!!!!
LOL reminds me of the drop off days with my kids... we always lived too close for bus service, and it was nice to spend time , but the drop off lines at the school... nightmares!!!!
But seriously, we did walk in all weather. We took our umbrellas and wore boots. And we girls had to wear skirts!
My mother had smaller kids at home, and she never got a ride anywhere, so we wouldn't either. It was about a mile. The uphill part was only a gentle slope.
Thirty-three years later, when Mom was my "daycare", she merrily drove my daughter to those same schools.
It wasn't just the students!
In the mid-70s, our school's Principal confronted the two female faculty members who occasionally wore Pants Suits, and told them that they were "not allowed" to dress in that manner. It turned into a battle of wills, and the two women eventually won that battle because there was no legal or contractual basis for the Principal's policy.
It might seem to be somewhat bizarre in today's world, but in the '70s, it was actually considered to be a serious "problem" if female educators were not garbed in dresses or skirts.
The 2-mile rule went into effect around 1965. I took a bus to school in first grade, but after that there were no more buses. We lived a mile from the school. The town is 1.3 square miles, so NOBODY lived 2 miles from school. So, we walked. Kept us skinny.
Sidebar: I live in a town that has three streets, and only one of those roads gets you in or out of town. Even though there are only 1200 people in the whole township, there are five or six buses clogging up the street every weekday morning. We have no schools of our own, so the kids go to various elementary schools and a regional high school that aren't really within walking distance. I respect the STOP sign and the safety of the slowpoke, dawdling children who are completely unaware that they are holding up traffic, but I get impatient having to stop and start just to get down the street and out to the main road. Having grown up and lived most of my life in a town that only had buses for special ed and disabled kids, it's mildly annoying.
So in the first months after I retired, I would sleep in later, say, until 7:30 or 8:00 a.m., and then mosey on out to get breakfast or go to the park or whatever, and then I'd encounter the school bus parade and wonder why on earth all those buses were there on a Saturday! Then I remembered that it wasn't Saturday.
So much goes on that you don't know when you're a city commuter who catches a 6 a.m. train.
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