Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Drop off at School
When I was a kid we got up in the morning, got dressed, went downstairs ate breakfast, put on our coats and book-bags and then walked up to the bus stop. When I was living in South Carolina the walk to the bus stop was a quarter mile away. Not to mention when I was in South Carolina living on Canterbury Lane, I had to walk past a house with two big dogs that use to chase me and any other kid when we walked by.
When I moved to New Jersey the bus stop was only two houses away but we went out there in all kinds of weather and we waited for the bus. Sometimes it rained sometimes it was REALLY cold, sometimes the bus was late but you know what...WE WAITED FOR THE BUS.
Today I see kids being taken to school by the car loads. I never saw as many kids being dropped off when I was a kid or being picked up for that matter. If I had asked my dad or mom to drop me off at school just because they would have told me to carry my tail to the bus stop.
What is so different today from when we were kids that makes taking the bus so bad? The buses are newer and the ride to school is not that long. Heck W's school is right outside the neighborhood.
One of my neighbors told me she never lets her son ride the bus.
To be honest here I have dropped off W, from school. However, it was a thing of I am needing to leave early, come on lets go now.
So again I ask, why is it so important to take your kid to school in the car instead of using the bus that is going to run anyway?
Labels: busing, Holly Oaks, Lakehurst, rob Kerns, s.c., School, summerville
# posted by robcasting @ 8:09 PM 
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My older don't ride the bus in the morning. There is no room for them to sit because schools have been merged. Also they hate the language and being picked on. When I was a kid I hated the bus too. I was picked on and had a kid attack me. I won't put my kids through that if I don't have to.
Ginny
Ginny
# posted by 
: 10:38 PM
: 10:38 PM
My mom dropped me off at school because we were just slow-moving people who were always late. However, I did ride the bus home.
If there are pit bulls or Rottweilers in the neighborhood I can understand driving the kids to school and picking them up, but otherwise, I really don't get a lot of things about how kids are brought up today. Why do kids need helmets to ride a bicycle? It's only a three foot drop to the ground! I also think it's weird parents call me at work wanting to snoop in their kids' text messages. For one thing, why does your 14 year old have a Blackberry, anyhow, and on top of that, what do you think they're doing now that kids weren't doing in 1988? And most everyone made it to adulthood safe and sound.
I watch movies from the `80's and contemplate how much freer everyone is: no cell phones, no LoJack, no security cameras hanging off of every phone pole. Boiling frogs, we are.
If there are pit bulls or Rottweilers in the neighborhood I can understand driving the kids to school and picking them up, but otherwise, I really don't get a lot of things about how kids are brought up today. Why do kids need helmets to ride a bicycle? It's only a three foot drop to the ground! I also think it's weird parents call me at work wanting to snoop in their kids' text messages. For one thing, why does your 14 year old have a Blackberry, anyhow, and on top of that, what do you think they're doing now that kids weren't doing in 1988? And most everyone made it to adulthood safe and sound.
I watch movies from the `80's and contemplate how much freer everyone is: no cell phones, no LoJack, no security cameras hanging off of every phone pole. Boiling frogs, we are.
Let's face it, buses rock! They are the vehicles (both literally and structurally) of change in one's life. As a young tot I can remember laying over in the local High School Parking lot waiting in the heat of the afternoon for high-schoolers to board for their daily ride home. Every day the first H.S. kid on would systematically traverse the aisle slapping the seats rhythmically yelling, "Sit down and shut up!" By today's standards this would likely be deemed abusive, much like being made to traipse out to the nearest tree and "pick the switch" that your mother was soon to tan your butt with just after you mouthed off to your brother. Kids today (and some parents for that matter) are soft...
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