Kids don't have to wait outside for the bus anymore?

[Exterous]

Was behind a bus this morning on a decently busy road. Every few houses or so the bus would stop with its red lights flashing and sit there waiting for kids to leave their house and walk to the bus. Several of the houses were a good distance from the road leading to surprisingly long stops and a very long line of cars sitting behind the bus. (But maybe its just this route/district for some reason?)

Kids these days. Back in my day we had to wait outside for the bus even though we were standing uphill both ways through the snow. It was character building.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Hasn't been my experience locally - BUT - what I can say is that there is a SHITLOAD of people that now drop-off and pick-up their kids directly at the school. The queue to pick up the kids is so bad that 30 minutes before school is out the line spills out onto the street.

I find that to be pathetic. It's the whole "Child rapists are everywhere!" brigade that made this happen. Same goes with parents waiting at the bus stop until their kids are picked up.... da fuq? I would say it's just different times, but what is happening is just pathetic and overall not healthy for society as we coddle our children more and more.

 

[sdifox]

That is what happens when you condone nanny state :awe:

Our kid walks to the bus stop and wait for the bus. It's like 100m from my house.

Edit, checked google maps, more like 100m

 

[KB]

Was behind a bus this morning on a decently busy road. Every few houses or so the bus would stop with its red lights flashing and sit there waiting for kids to leave their house and walk to the bus. Several of the houses were a good distance from the road leading to surprisingly long stops and a very long line of cars sitting behind the bus. (But maybe its just this route/district for some reason?)

Kids these days. Back in my day we had to wait outside for the bus even though we were standing uphill both ways through the snow. It was character building.

I noticed the same thing. Back in my day all the kids on the block had the same bus stop and some had to walk pretty far to get there. Now they all have stops right in front of their house, which means the bus stops every 25 yards and the line of cars stuck behind it grows. Man first world problems are tough.

 

[shortylickens]

Was behind a bus this morning on a decently busy road. Every few houses or so the bus would stop with its red lights flashing and sit there waiting for kids to leave their house and walk to the bus. Several of the houses were a good distance from the road leading to surprisingly long stops and a very long line of cars sitting behind the bus. (But maybe its just this route/district for some reason?)

Kids these days. Back in my day we had to wait outside for the bus even though we were standing uphill both ways through the snow. It was character building.

Back in "your day" there werent assloads of mass shootings and kidnappings.

Its not a nanny state. Parents today have very good reasons to fear for their childs lives.

 

[lxskllr]

Back in "your day" there werent assloads of mass shootings and kidnappings.

Its not a nanny state. Parents today have very good reasons to fear for their childs lives.

Ah, yes. The great bus stop massacre of 2014 #neverforget

 

[sdifox]

Back in "your day" there werent assloads of mass shootings and kidnappings.

Its not a nanny state. Parents today have very good reasons to fear for their childs lives.

... Don't let your school age children go to Vegas concert?

 

[skull]

Back in "your day" there werent assloads of mass shootings and kidnappings.

Its not a nanny state. Parents today have very good reasons to fear for their childs lives.

Which is most likely because of all the cry babies were raising these days. Wah wah everybody's so mean, they don't let me have my way like mommy, lifes so tough, I'm going to make them pay.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Back in "your day" there werent assloads of mass shootings and kidnappings.

Its not a nanny state. Parents today have very good reasons to fear for their childs lives.

Instead of listening to your inter-fear mongering side. Try looking at these things called "facts". Overall gun crimes, rapes, etc... are all statistically down year over year for the last 10-20 years.

But again, don't let facts get in the way of your thinking! You're almost right on par with climate change deniers.

 

[Exterous]

Back in "your day" there werent assloads of mass shootings and kidnappings.

Its not a nanny state. Parents today have very good reasons to fear for their childs lives.

The chances of injury or death in a bus\school related shooting are something like 1:5,000,000. Far more are killed or injured by cars, pools and stairs

 

[Exterous]

Man first world problems are tough.

its a struggle to get through the day

 

[Anubis]

Back in "your day" there werent assloads of mass shootings and kidnappings.
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yes there were. you simply didnt hear about them as much

crime is down WAY down vs 20-30 years ago

 

[MomentsofSanity]

About 9 years ago a neighbors child was kidnapped on the way home from school and murdered. She was very close to my kids. Best of friends. They initially thought she was with my stepson because he hadn't come home yet either. I'm more cautious as a result but even I find the current state of things to be a little over the top.

 

[IronWing]

Back in "your day" there werent assloads of mass shootings and kidnappings.

Its not a nanny state. Parents today have very good reasons to fear for their childs lives.

Most abuse of children occurs in the home. Therefore, kids are safer at a bus stop than waiting for the bus at home.

 

[lxskllr]

Most abuse of children occurs in the home. Therefore, kids are safer at a bus stop than waiting for the bus at home.

That's why I kept my daughter in a shed in the back yard. It was better that way.

 

[IronWing]

That's why I kept my daughter in a shed in the back yard. It was better that way.

I figured that if I ever had children I'd make them live in the backyard until they were house broken, say age 30.

 

[highland145]

I figured that if I ever had children I'd make them live in the backyard until they were house broken, say age 30.

That's just wrong, especially considering that your wife let's you in the house. :colbert;




Yeah, mine's soft hearted too.

 

[FerrelGeek]

Similar experience here. We also have parents who stand there and talk to the bus drivers and are clueless to the growing line of traffic waiting for them to let the bus go. And it's compounded by people who will sit there and won't start driving until the bus starts moving; even though their flashers have been off for 10 seconds.

 

[SearchMaster]

This whole "bus stop at every house" thing is ridiculous. My school bus drove by my house, yet my bus stop was about a quarter mile away. I've not experienced the bus drivers waiting for the kids to leave their house and walk to the bus though.

Several weeks ago I was driving my son to school (his STEM program isn't offered at his districted school so there's no bus service for us), and there was a HS aged kid sitting in his mom's running car at the end of the driveway waiting for the bus. His house was less than a half mile from the school - I guarantee my parents would have made me walk to school - and the temperature was 62 degrees. I thought it was pathetic.

 

[bradly1101]

Ah, the memories of youth, not being far enough away from school to qualify for the bus, only a mile and a half walk, holding Tina's hand the whole way to kindergarten, a man once pulling up in a sedan asking us if we wanted candy, saying no, continuing the hike through senior year at the more distant high school, trudging through a great storm in '81 or '82, an el Niño with so much hail it looked like snow in a place that never sees it, rushing cars on Pacific Coast Highway sending huge, freezing waves over me and my French horn in its wooden case, can't body surf those, a lesson about self reliance that lasted thirteen years.

 

[Captante]

Back in "your day" there werent assloads of mass shootings and kidnappings.

Its not a nanny state. Parents today have very good reasons to fear for their childs lives.

Hmmmm ... sounds a lot like today in reality, especially when it comes to bus-stops.

This is why people grow up afraid of their own shadows.

 

[IronWing]

and there was a HS aged kid sitting in his mom's running car at the end of the driveway waiting for the bus.

My favorite parent trick is the parents who do this and then peel out into traffic, gravel flying, the second the flashing lights go out.

 

[NetWareHead]

This whole "bus stop at every house" thing is ridiculous. My school bus drove by my house, yet my bus stop was about a quarter mile away. I've not experienced the bus drivers waiting for the kids to leave their house and walk to the bus though.

Yes its BS. We had to walk 1/2 mile to the bus stop and meet other neighborhood kids there. One stop covered 3-4 streets.

Several weeks ago I was driving my son to school (his STEM program isn't offered at his districted school so there's no bus service for us), and there was a HS aged kid sitting in his mom's running car at the end of the driveway waiting for the bus. His house was less than a half mile from the school - I guarantee my parents would have made me walk to school - and the temperature was 62 degrees. I thought it was pathetic.

Pathetic. I had to walk in the rain/snow etc... and wait for the bus. I got an umbrella when it rained and stored it in my locker. As if some rain and cold is going to kill your little kid?

 

[bradly1101]

It's not impossible to understand the fears of parents, there are monsters out there who can't get on the bus. Then there's this:

Don't Google "school bus kids tossed" if you're a parent, you don't want to know. Protecting our offspring is instinctual, and virtually impossible.

 

[IronWing]

The school bus seat belt thing is a bit tricky. If buses are equipped with belts, would the driver be obligated to make sure every kid buckled up? If so, the bus would never move as some kids are jerks. I guess we could design school buses with roller-coaster style bars that lock down.