ATTN Lazy-Ass Kids on School Buses Apologists!! !! !! !! !!

[DS1]

I took this picture yesterday morning, you TELL ME how 2 stops within 30 feet of each other are justified and the little fucks can't WALK!

This is a MAJOR road, btw, and all traffic backs up for a mile each way. :argh:

[dolo amber]

1. !!

:rofl:

[eyesroll]

2. UGH.

I hate door-to-door bus service where none is justified. It's rampant around here, for able-bodied middle schoolers in well-lit suburban areas (the kids wait inside, too, and run to the bus when it pulls up, slowing everything down even further).

[DS1]

4. My commute has changed recently, otherwise I'd have a photo of

the kid having traffic stopped so he can get on a bus, and the bus then immediately makes a right turn into the school grounds/parking lot.

I'm not joking.

[progmom]

3. only thing i can think is that because it's such a busy road

...it wouldn't be safe for them to walk along it?

[DS1]

6. It's their yard, on a corner

The kid on the right 2 houses down from that second point also gets his own stop.

[progmom]

14. then i got nothin'

:)
progspawn will be able to walk to school once k'garten starts, and that makes me very happy.

[TimeChaser]

5. Ever wonder if those kids might have health problems?

For some of elementary and all of middle school, I got teased about having to have the bus drop me off right in front of my house. But I needed it that way because I had juvenile arthritis while growing up.

[DS1]

10. Every single one of them, eh?

Must be the water

[underpants]

7. WOW your "MAJOR" road has a lane going each way

Fancy pants Yankees:grr:

Okay so if one of the kids has to get off the bus and walk down the "MAJOR" road whilest cars zip by at say 40 MPH (and some drivers carry and USE cameras for God knows what reason) and this kid gets hit that is okay?

[DS1]

9. IT'S THEIR YARD!!!

[underpants]

11. 30 feet is ten yards

3 each

[DS1]

13. All the more reason to crush them into each other and make one big

kid :P

[Misunderestimator]

31. ...

:rofl:

[evlbstrd]

8. The kids don't determine the stop locations.

At least mine didn't get a vote.

[johnnie]

12. Damned kids..

...and their school busses and morning traffic and stuff. x(

[skygazer]

15. I don't think they even use school busses around here anymore

All the parents drive their kids to school and you know what? I'd rather have ONE bus, stopping every 30 feet, than 5000 minivans jockeying for position to get as close as possible to the door of the school. Talk about backing up traffic! There's an elementary school about a mile down the road from me - it's ugly at about 9 am and again at about 3. Idiots backing in and out, morans wandering around their vehicles while little junior toddles out into traffic. And the high school is right in the middle of town and there's no sense trying to get anywhere near any of the surrounding businesses between about 1 and maybe 4 in the afternoon.

[DS1]

17. Here, and this picture is coming tomorrow, they all drive down

to the end of their own blocks and set up little car camps, waiting for the bus to come. Then the kid runs out of the car, gets in the bus, and the cars either go back up the hills to their McMansions or they insist that they get to pull in front of you - ya know, since you're already stopped and stuff :eyes:

Little Nazis is what we're creating.

[Mad_Dem_X]

25. OMG, that's insane!

Talk about lazy parents! :wow:

[XemaSab]

37. That happened in the area I used to live in

The bus would stop where the road met the highway, and every morning there would be about 6 parents dropping off kids to meet the bus.

The kicker is that the road in question is 3 blocks long. Some of the driveways are a little long, so that might add another block, but damn...

I can maybe see it one the 5 days a year where it's 25 degrees with a dusting on snow, but the rest of the year? That kid would be walking.

[skygazer]

53. That's so insane

When my kids were in grade school, I lived on a dirt road out in the middle of nowhere. The bus stop where they caught the bus to school was at the end of the dirt road, about half a mile away and they walked down there every morning with the handful of other neighbor kids.

In the afternoon, the bus dropped them off at the end of the road leading into our road which was a full mile away. And the kids all walked home. It was NOT a big deal. If it was pouring down buckets of rain or 20 below zero, I'd take the car down and pick them up but that only happened a couple of times.

And people wonder why kids are obese!

[Kat45]

48. I live accross the street from an elementary school just like that.

Everyone drives their kid to school, jockeys for position close to the school, etc. And when they come to pick them up after school, they stert showing up about a half hour early to get a good space. I can't even come and go from my own house when school is starting or ending. They even made some parts of my street one-way during certain hours. Some asshole parents park their car blocking my driveway. I found out that a couple of times when I wasn't home, some major asshole parked IN my driveway!

[LynneSin]

16. You answered your own question - it's a busy highway

I had the same issue back when I lived in Bucks County PA with a highway that looks quite similiar to what is in your picture.

The solution - I figured out the time range of when the bus would be passing down that road and made it a point to make sure I wasn't travelling it. Outside of extreme weather conditions, I very rarely had to put up with again.

I'm in an urban area where at least there are sidewalks for the kids so they don't have to stop at every house

[DS1]

18. Read the thread

[LynneSin]

21. Yes, I have read the thread

and I stand by my answer. Some kid gets an ADHD attack and goes wandering too close to the highway and gets smacked by an anxious driver busy driving and photographing with his cell phone.

You can fight the system or you can learn the system and adjust your commute in order to avoid the buses. For me, by changing my schedule to 30 minutes earlier I was able to miss the buses.

ANd it's not like I still don't deal with it. Some dumbass in the Wilmington School system decided to put our bus stop at the apartment complex right at the enterance/exit into the complex. And those kids not only stand all over the place I think some of them are daring each other to see how close they can stand to the incoming/outgoing cars. I've written the school board several times to move the kids like 10 feet to the right where there is a big grassy area where they can wait.

Doesn't happen

So I had to adjust that time too

[DS1]

27. The kid can walk through his own fucking yard

and come out directly on the corner. No sidewalks, no roads, no boogeymen, their biggest threat would be the squirrels hookin acorns at them.

[tigereye]

40. it's probably a safety reg of some sort, DS

when I went to the local elem school here to look at the kindergarten, they told me that my kid would HAVE to ride the bus, even though we live just a few blocks away....

[Oeditpus Rex]

19. The real issue here is

you have a PT Cruiser and I don't. :grr:

[DS1]

20. No, it's one of these

but green

[Oeditpus Rex]

26. Oh

I saw the tapering hood and thought...




My bad. :blush:

[madinmaryland]

22. That's a major road?

:wtf:

All of our "major" roads have more than two lanes. Back-up looks like maybe three cars? Kind of looks like you are way out in the country.

:wtf:

[DS1]

24. It's not busy, but it's vital to getting to and from anywhere distant.

[madinmaryland]

30. I think you need to get over it and deal with it!!!

School Buses and children were put here to specifically slow DS1 down and irritate the hell out of you!

:evilgrin:

[matcom]

23. KICK ASS BROTHER!

i say eliminate the busses all together.

let the little fuckers EARN it just like below

[nini]

28. You would think if two houses are that close

... they'd make the little darlings meet in between them.

I'm with you.. this is pretty stupid.

[DS1]

29. Yes!

Do you think they ignore each other, and start up little factions? Or just ignore each other like people in elevators? Or throw rocks at each other? How anti-social can you get?

[nini]

33. I think they end up sitting next to each other on the bus

they're just freaking entitled little shits that want the bus to come to THEM. It's a power thing instilled in them by their shitty parents who think their little darlings should have the world revolve around them.


:D

[DS1]

38. .

:pals:

[nini]

39. *snort*

You can only imagine dinner out with ZW and nini when wild kids are present :D :rofl:

[jpgray]

32. Apparently no one on this thread grew up in the country

There are roads like this that millions of little kids walk down to and from school every damn day without thinking twice about it--with even less of a shoulder than this, and with a higher speed limit no doubt. Walking an extra thirty feet is not a big fucking deal, and I pity the kid whose parent treats him or her like a hothouse flower instead of a human being.

[_testify_]

35. Plus, the kid who wanders too close to the shoulder

doesn't grow up to have kids of his own.


Natural selection at work.

[ContraBass Black]

34. Are you sure the second stop wash scheduled?

Sometimes, a kid can't get from the back of an overcrowded bus to the front before the driver starts moving again.

[xmas74]

36. I live on a heavy traffic road.

They stop about 50 feet before my house and then at my house for my daughter. The way they explained it to me was that for the elementary level it had to deal w/ lawsuits. For their own protection they drop off each of the elementary students in front of their homes.

Jr. high and high school have one large bus stop every three blocks.

[tigereye]

41. ah, the voice of reason

thanks X-mas.

[xmas74]

49. You are welcome.

I'd personally walk my daughter to a bus stop a block or two away and wait w/ her until the bus got there but the school stated that this is not allowed, due to a student being hit by a car a few years ago while trying to cross the street. The bus driver had her lights flashing, the bar extended and the stop sign out. A driver was not paying attention and slammed into the boy at 40+ mph, even though the speed limit was only 25. His father saw the whole thing happen and couldn't stop it.

My school district stated that since this has happened all over the US they now stop directly in front of the home to cut down the accident rate, mostly due to inattentive drivers.

[SOteric]

42. Crankypants.

[LostinVA]

43. I agree with this -- it happens all the time around here

And, they are high school aged kids, not K-5.

on edit: this is inside a gated community where the speed limit is an ENFORCED 25 mph.

[MissB]

44. Wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

My kids have their own bus stop too. But I live on the corner of death, so it's all good.

I'll just repeat: Wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[DS1]

45. FU

Need I repeat?

[MissB]

47. Someday, you'll have four

children. I know this.

[Midlodemocrat]

46. Okay, Mr. libeling the poor little children at their school bus...

Why don't you WALK to work??? Huh? or at least get a scooter like your buddy? Yeah, I'm talking to you. You. You. child on a bus hater, you.




:hide:

[nini]

50. How far is the school?

Shouldn't they be walking all the way to school anyway?

You know.. uphill? In the snow? :P


hell. I had to walk over a mile to school when I was kid. Kids these days are so weak.

[mcar]

51. Seems ridiculous

but as a mother, I wonder if there's more to the story. For years, my kids' bus stop was across a busy street, only 3 blocks from our house but I wouldn't let them cross that street on their own. When the oldest was in middle school, I let him but worried every day about him getting hit (there's a rise just before our corner and it's impossible to see cars coming up it; therefore if a car is going above the speed limit, it could easily hit a kid crossing the street). Every year I asked if the bus could pick us up at our corner, rather than across the street and I was told no.

So, every day I either walked my kids to the bus stop and waited or drove them into school. Suddenly early this school year, the bus began stopped both at our street, then turning the corner and immediately stopping at the "old" stop. I was totally confused. I asked the bus driver why and she said, because the new kid in the neighborhood gets off the bus and walks home by himself with no parent to pick him up so I have to stop here because he can't cross the street by himself - these are elementary aged kids.

So, all this time, all I needed to do was to stop being at the bus stop and they'd add our stop???? In the meantime, a high school kid on our dead end street who goes to the "bad kids" school gets picked up at his door every morning, while the elementary school kids have to walk to the "big road."

Go figure.

[Pithlet]

52. They only do that on the busy roads, here.

In the subdivisions they have set bus stops where the kids all meet. My son gets picked up at our house, but it's because he rides the shortbus. When he starts mainstream kindergarten next year, he'll have to walk to the bus stop.

I used to hate getting caught behind the schoolbus during my commuter days.

[BikeWriter]

54. Children are the future of America. Why do you hate America?

:cry:

[CanuckAmok]

55. Luxury! We didn't have school busses when I was a lad....

...we had to walk 40 miles to school every day, through 4' of hard-packed snow, on the bloody stumps where our feet used to be before ma had to cut them off for firewood every morning. We had to bring an extra sibling along every day, just so we'd have something to eat along the way.

But you try tellin' that to the kids today, and they don't believe you.