Get. On. The. Bus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Take as long as you need, kids. I'll wait.

- Parent with grown up kids who still thinks our little ones deserve a little break

How little? Kindergartners during the first week of school? Sure. Everyone on the first day of school? Sure. But a second grader three months in? No. They should NOT take as long as they need - did you miss where a poster said her daughter has been 20 minutes late to school every day?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Take as long as you need, kids. I'll wait.

- Parent with grown up kids who still thinks our little ones deserve a little break

You are ridiculous and don't deserve to pat yourself on the back. If a kid needs "a little break" you provide it by waking them up earlier so they can get ready at their leisure and still be ready on time to get on the bus. Or, you could "give them a little break" by not being lazy and driving them to school yourself. What about the kids who end up being stressed out because they are late and rushed once they arrive at school, just because someone else needed "a little break"?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree. There was one kid that was ALWAYS late to the bus, and he lives three doors down from the stop. The bus driver would always wait for him or just drive up to his house and stop. This is an middle/upper income area. So inconsiderate and entitled. Mom can't get him up 5 min earlier?

Maybe mom can but dad can’t. Hence the tardiness.

But let’s not throw a baby dad with bath water.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hear you, OP. As a parent and a teacher I completely agree. People have lost their respect for others and it shows in their actions, like no urgency when your behaviors impede others.

+1 And look at some of the posts from apparent parents, who are modeling this entitled behavior when they should be modeling how to respect others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I completely agree. This is a pet peeve of mine as well.

Sure, any student might occasionally run late for the bus and need the driver to wait a bit, but being late every day, sauntering to the stop when the red lights are on making traffic stop and wait for you, and adults having extended conversations with the drivers while others wait are unacceptable. And it has become the norm.

Our bus picks up at a traffic circle and I love our bus driver, because he will actuallly turn the red lights off if most kids are on the bus except for a slow mover or two off in the distance. This allows drivers to go around the circle while the latecomers continue their slow progress toward the bus These are high school kids, not little kids. Why should anyone have to wait for them to walk a half blck on the sidewalk, because they can't be bothered to get to the stop on time?

And don't even get me started on all the people who drive their kids to the bus (even in middle school) and then block traffic so that they can chat with other adults. Pull over or meet for coffee.

PS - I have kids on the bus too, and if they are late, they have to run or at least walk as fast as they can.

Partially right. However, our bus is all over the place with arrival times. On time to 10 min. early and, if early, doesn't wait until closer to the published pick up time. The "Here Comes the Bus" app is useless with alerting us when it's nearby, with us often getting the "it's in the radius close to your house" notification when it's actually pulling up to the stop. So, the kids are not always "late."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Take as long as you need, kids. I'll wait.

- Parent with grown up kids who still thinks our little ones deserve a little break

You are ridiculous and don't deserve to pat yourself on the back. If a kid needs "a little break" you provide it by waking them up earlier so they can get ready at their leisure and still be ready on time to get on the bus. Or, you could "give them a little break" by not being lazy and driving them to school yourself. What about the kids who end up being stressed out because they are late and rushed once they arrive at school, just because someone else needed "a little break"?

You sound like you could really use some downtime to deal with your anger issues, hon.

[Anonymous]

Glad they're so safe getting in and out of the death trap with no seat belts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Glad they're so safe getting in and out of the death trap with no seat belts.

School busses without seat belts are 40x safer than your private car with seat belts.

It's safer to design the bus for passengers not to need belts than to have a driver stopping and starting as kids get themselves unbuckled and need to be put back in place.

If cars have seat belts, why aren't they generally required in school buses? Because modern school buses are already remarkably safe, and because seat belts don't work the same way in buses as they do cars, research shows.

Numerous federal and academic studies have concluded that school buses are the safest form of ground transportation of all, in fact. The National Safety Council says they're about 40 times safer than the family car.

About 440,000 public school buses carry 24 million children more than 4.3 billion miles a year, but only about six children die each year in bus accidents, according to annual statistics compiled the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. About 800 children, by contrast, die every year walking, biking or being driven to school in cars or other passenger vehicles, said Ron Medford, the agency's deputy director.

That's because designers of modern school buses don't trust squirmy children to use seat belts properly. Instead, they use a passive system called compartmentalization. Bus seats aren't packed so closely together just to maximize capacity (although that's one reason); they're spaced tightly and covered with 4-inch-thick foam to form a protective bubble.

In a crash, "the child will go against the seat, and that will absorb most of the impact," said John Hamilton, transportation director for the Jackson County, Fla., school board. "Plus, it's a safety device so that they won't be projecting through the air."

https://www.today.com/parents/why-your-childs-school-bus-has-no-seat-belts-2D80555438

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree. There was one kid that was ALWAYS late to the bus, and he lives three doors down from the stop. The bus driver would always wait for him or just drive up to his house and stop. This is an middle/upper income area. So inconsiderate and entitled. Mom can't get him up 5 min earlier?

Maybe mom can but dad can’t. Hence the tardiness.

No, it's the mom. I see her step out of the house to watch her DC get on the bus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree. There was one kid that was ALWAYS late to the bus, and he lives three doors down from the stop. The bus driver would always wait for him or just drive up to his house and stop. This is an middle/upper income area. So inconsiderate and entitled. Mom can't get him up 5 min earlier?

How about Dad, dingbat?

Hey dingbat, the dad leaves the house super early. It was the mom who got the kids to school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Its called ENTITLEMENT

It is, and it's being displayed by drivers. If you can't stand to wait five minutes while young children file into a bus that is filled three butts to a seat, then YOU should get up earlier.

We're always first to the bus stop in the morning, btw, so it's not my kid who is late. But take a breath and look at your priorities.

DP.. yes, people need to wait behind the bus, BUT, parents should also make sure their kids get to the bus stop on time. A couple of times a year you are late, NBD. But almost daily? That parent is also entitled as if the world should revolve around their schedule and their kids.

[Anonymous]

I'm totally confused by this thread. Why can't you leave as soon as your kid is on the bus? I drop my kid off at the bus stop every morning, stay to make sure he's seated, then wave and leave. I have no idea when the bus itself actually leaves. Are you required to wait til the bus is actually gone?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Take as long as you need, kids. I'll wait.

- Parent with grown up kids who still thinks our little ones deserve a little break

You are ridiculous and don't deserve to pat yourself on the back. If a kid needs "a little break" you provide it by waking them up earlier so they can get ready at their leisure and still be ready on time to get on the bus. Or, you could "give them a little break" by not being lazy and driving them to school yourself. What about the kids who end up being stressed out because they are late and rushed once they arrive at school, just because someone else needed "a little break"?

Yeah, that PP has taken "a little break" from their senses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Take as long as you need, kids. I'll wait.

- Parent with grown up kids who still thinks our little ones deserve a little break

My youngest just started University.

Little ones need to learn that things like getting on the bus needs to happen in a timely manner. Mom can fawn over them on their own time. Other people are on a schedule too.

Maybe it's the parents who need to learn it first.

[Anonymous]

+1 for venting.

I get stuck behind a bus who backs up 5+ cars in a neighborhood because the parents wait until the bus pulls up in front of their house before the twin boys put on shoes/get their backpack/come out the door, then get hugs/kisses, and finally get on the bus. Meanwhile, the bus/driver sits there for 5 minutes daily stopping all traffic until the kids get on.

I like to think that maybe the driver and mom do this because the kids have some sort of disability/behavioral issues and NEED it.

Otherwise, they're just being terribly rude.