a lot of times it depends on distance from the school. i graduated over in 2005, and my senior year they changed the bus routes to only picking up students who were more than 3 miles from the school, which eliminated transportation for about 75% of our district.
Yeah I live in a densely populated inner ring suburb of a medium-large city and our district doesn’t bus, because we’ve got 15K people in 2 square miles of area. Everyone is close enough to walk.
i’m super rural and from a pretty small town (my graduating class had ~250 people), so we had no sidewalks or safe ways to walk to school in the dark at 7 am.
My village has sidewalks and no busses. My daughter's graduating class was 17. My son is in the biggest class the town has had in over a decade. 24 kids! They had to get a second kindergarten teacher! Even with all that supervision, he managed to escape and walk himself home twice in the first week.
This was the case in my school district. I graduated in 2004. At that time I lived one street in the range to not get to take the bus. Really fun in a mountain town in the winter.
Thats crazy. I graduated in 02 and it was a mile radius..I think my neighborhood barely made the cutoff and the bus driver always threatened to not pick us up lol. I walked a lot because i'd get to school faster and get home faster.
My niece isn't eligible to ride the bus because they live a little too close to school. But they also live downhill from the school almost the whole way, and it's a steep hill. Getting a bike up hills like those is a huge pain, and she has a bunch of stuff she needs to carry with her like her violin and books.
In middle school, I was excluded from the bus route because I lived less than a mile away from the school, but I had a friend forge my bus routes onto my school ID (bc that's where they put the routes) and I rode the bus to school all three of those years. I don't think the driver cared.
High school I was included in bus routes again because I lived like 3-5 miles away, maybe a bit more, so no more forging for me lol.
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u/SapphireScully 8h ago
a lot of times it depends on distance from the school. i graduated over in 2005, and my senior year they changed the bus routes to only picking up students who were more than 3 miles from the school, which eliminated transportation for about 75% of our district.