How much to pay a high schooler to drive my kid?

[Anonymous]

This fall I will need someone to drive my daughter to sports practice 3 nights a week. It is about 4 miles away. How much should I offer to pay?

[Anonymous]

I would not pay a high schooler to drive my kid.

[Anonymous]

Look for a college kid. Not a high school kid.

[Anonymous]

Round trip? $20
One way - $10

[Anonymous]

Teenagers won't be driving my children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teenagers won't be driving my children.

I was just thinking the same thing and I don't even have kids. There's a reason teenagers' insurance is way higher than adults'.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This fall I will need someone to drive my daughter to sports practice 3 nights a week. It is about 4 miles away. How much should I offer to pay?

4 miles in some places is a 30 minute drive.

That is too much responsibility for a high school student.

[Anonymous]

I have no words for this. Wow. Really?

[Anonymous]

Would not even allow my kids in my nephew's (HSer) car. Nope.

[Anonymous]

You sound like my clueless husband.

[Anonymous]

Memories....

When I was a high schooler, I babysat for two little boys from 3 pm to when his mother got home firom work around 6 pm. I remember getting my license, and within weeks, she asked me to drive the boys to McDonalds for dinner because she was working late. I myself was nervous over the responsibility (I was 16) and called my own mother about what to do. MY mother insisted that I did NOT drive those kids anywhere.

Thinking back, I can't believe that mother asked a 16-year-old with a license two weeks old to drive her young children through rush hour traffic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
You sound like my clueless husband.

Maybe she is your clueless husband

[Anonymous]

My 17 year HS senior drove a 30 mile round trip commute this past school year to/from our local community college and HS. He could have easily handled a 4 mile trip to an after school activity a few nights a week.

I guess it depends on the kid. But that would not have been too much responsibility for my son.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Round trip? $20
One way - $10

This sounds reasonable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
You sound like my clueless husband.

Dear God people. My daughter is 14 and will be in HS. Presumably she will be riding in cars in cars with high schoolers from time to time anyways. In any event, the age of the driver does not really pertain to the rate of pay. Feel free to substitute college student in place of high schooler if you wish.