That is not how it works. They have set rules and limited bussing. A lot of kids walk or bike to school. |
Backpacks are absurdly heavy these days with computers and all the reusable food containers. I can barely lift DD’s backpack. |
Great so we dont need your commentary. Schools have drastically curtailed bus service in the last 5 years, and while it is good for kids to get exercise, this just ruins peoples days with poor weather and poor ergonomics of a heavy school load. |
You would be surprised how flexible rules can be when you stand your ground. |
What basis do you have for making this ridiculous generalization? I guess “most” parents must live somewhere else. Around where I live kids walk to school or get the bus, in later elementary as well as middle. |
+1000 I’m actually quite shocked by this thread and that’s saying something. Is DCUM raising a bunch of car dependent middle schoolers that can’t do a thing for themselves? They need the exercise. It’s an exercise in independence. No you don’t stop what you’re doing to go pick up Larla on a whim because her book bag is too heavy. It’s not “lazy”, it’s teaching Larla some life skills. And it’s better for the environment. |
This is one of the weirdest threads I’ve ever read. We are also just inside the bus parameter so DS walks every day. I WFH but I certainly don’t have flexibility to pick him up and he walks every day (he gets a ride there each morning). I’ve picked up 5 times in two years: air quality, tornado watch?, a couple of torrential downpours.
We aren’t lazy parents - we have busy jobs. Our kid also likes the independence, as someone else above said. |
OP doesn’t have a job. She’s just lazy or has a hang up about stoplights. |
Just wait till high school
The attitude gets way worse |
Most schools will allow you to pay a fee to take the bus if there are seats available. Especially since you live so close to the cut off. Can you do that? |
Yes! |
I walked to school, but never alone.
This is how middle school girls disappear. It isn't safe, OP |
^ ridiculous |
Doing less for your student is far better parenting than doing more |
I kind of laughed off the "have to poop" until my kids told me how they avoid going into the bathrooms all day and don't unless they really, really have to go and can't hold it. They immediately head to the bathroom when they get home. I wouldn't outright discredit her complaint about needing the bathroom quickly after school.
I think you should agree to pickup on M/W/F or some schedule and then she knows the days she needs to walk and can be mentally prepared for walk vs ride. That will also eliminate the daily text requests to you, which are annoying. |