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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 508975" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>Lisa, I completely agree! When I was a kid, even in high school, the buses were strictly for kids who lived at least a mile from the school and they wouldn't bend that rule for anybody! In elementary school we lived 6 or 7 blocks from the school but it was a rough 6 or 7 blocks! That neighborhood was all steep hills and the school was located at the very top of the steepest hill, and there was a very busy street we had to cross. The schools only closed when the buses couldn't make it up that hill! We walked up that hill to the school when it was bitter cold with ice and a foot of snow on the ground or when it was so hot in the late spring that the tar on the road melted and bubbled up! We were <em>kids</em> - didn't hurt us a bit! </p><p></p><p>Where I live now is exactly three blocks from the high school. It's so close that when there are football games in the fall, I can hear every word from the announcers microphone if I'm out in my yard! And every afternoon a school bus stops at the corner and three six foot tall teenage boys get off, all of them at least 16 or 17 years old! Really guys? Are you so delicate and so wimpy (or so lazy?) that you can't walk those <em>three short blocks</em> home from school in 50-60 degree sunny weather! Our little rural school system isn't exactly rolling in money and school buses don't come cheap. I wonder how many extra buses they have had to buy to transport all these precious delicate little flowers those few blocks home so that they can avoid all that nasty fresh air and exercise? And these are the kind of kids that look like the only exercise they probably get is to their fingers from playing video games and using their cell phones!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 508975, member: 1883"] Lisa, I completely agree! When I was a kid, even in high school, the buses were strictly for kids who lived at least a mile from the school and they wouldn't bend that rule for anybody! In elementary school we lived 6 or 7 blocks from the school but it was a rough 6 or 7 blocks! That neighborhood was all steep hills and the school was located at the very top of the steepest hill, and there was a very busy street we had to cross. The schools only closed when the buses couldn't make it up that hill! We walked up that hill to the school when it was bitter cold with ice and a foot of snow on the ground or when it was so hot in the late spring that the tar on the road melted and bubbled up! We were [I]kids[/I] - didn't hurt us a bit! Where I live now is exactly three blocks from the high school. It's so close that when there are football games in the fall, I can hear every word from the announcers microphone if I'm out in my yard! And every afternoon a school bus stops at the corner and three six foot tall teenage boys get off, all of them at least 16 or 17 years old! Really guys? Are you so delicate and so wimpy (or so lazy?) that you can't walk those [I]three short blocks[/I] home from school in 50-60 degree sunny weather! Our little rural school system isn't exactly rolling in money and school buses don't come cheap. I wonder how many extra buses they have had to buy to transport all these precious delicate little flowers those few blocks home so that they can avoid all that nasty fresh air and exercise? And these are the kind of kids that look like the only exercise they probably get is to their fingers from playing video games and using their cell phones! [/QUOTE]
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