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I voted 12 but im not sure. It depends on his maturity too. I live in the City of Chicago with busy city streets everywhere. Im even scared crossing the streets around here at times.
I voted 12 but im not sure. It depends on his maturity too. I live in the City of Chicago with busy city streets everywhere. Im even scared crossing the streets around here at times.
Yes, this is why I put 15-16 for our bus stop. It's near a very busy street that has heavy with traffic all day long. (It's Houston and no one watches for pedestrians here.) The kids don't have a separate bus for schools and ride public transportation. We live in a nice enough area, but we are close to some sketchy areas.
It's all about where you live and what the bus services are like.
Our school bus stop is just down the street and it is out of sight, but it is on a cul de sac and there are plenty of kids there. The moms of the kindergarten and first grade kids usually wait with the kids, so there are parents there as well.
Of course, the whole thing is sort of theoretical since my grandson takes the special ed bus and it comes to their door when he does. Usually mom drives them to school and they take the bus home. The elementary school they went to has no real walking zone since there are no sidewalks and they would have to cross some busy streets to walk. We are over the distance anyway.
I used to walk to school alone or with friends in second grade and it was quite a distance and through the town, but it did have sidewalks and stop lights to cross at.
My mom let me wait alone with my younger brother for the school bus around age 8-9.
The first time I expressed a desire to ride on the city bus system, which passed by our business (where I was almost daily in the summer), was in 7th grade. The first time was with a friend, but later times I often rode alone to the library.
How do they enforce this rule? This sounds quite peculiar, just wondering.
Ours is similar, but I think it is 2nd grade. The bus driver takes the kids back to school if no parent or authorized adult is there rather than allowing the child off the bus, I think. As far as I know though it has never happened at our bus stop as there are always parents waiting and we authorize our neighbors to get our kids off the bus.
Ours is similar, but I think it is 2nd grade. The bus driver takes the kids back to school if no parent or authorized adult is there rather than allowing the child off the bus, I think. As far as I know though it has never happened at our bus stop as there are always parents waiting and we authorize our neighbors to get our kids off the bus.
Yep, here too. They take the child back to school and the school calls the parent to pick up. It's first grade and under here.
Our School System also Returns them to the school, (I think its 2nd and below).
But the 'Return' can take a while. All of our school buses do two or three runs. So if the child is on the Early End Elementary school, and the backup bus is not avaiable, The child may be on the bus for the High School/Middle or Late End Elementary School runs.
The School is notified as soon as the child is held on board, but it can be sometimes be 60-120 minutes till the child get back to there home Elementary schoool.
They attempt to make the routes so the bus "End" it route near school where the 2nd and/or 3rd route has to starts. Going back to the Home Elementary might push that bus 15-20 late for its next route.
Ours is similar, but I think it is 2nd grade. The bus driver takes the kids back to school if no parent or authorized adult is there rather than allowing the child off the bus, I think. As far as I know though it has never happened at our bus stop as there are always parents waiting and we authorize our neighbors to get our kids off the bus.
Ah, that makes sense, thank you. Always good to have adult supervision.
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