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[quote=Anonymous]Good grief. SO many posters here making so many assumptions. And so many posters who think they know everything about buses.

Many of you above are conflating school and public buses. Your kid rides public, hooray! Your kid rides the bus to school and can find his or her bus among all the buses, hooray!

That means exactly nothing.

There may be no public bus he can hop onto that gets him from school to home. Why did public buses even come up?

Many posters are acting as if the boy is some kind of dolt who "doesn't [i]know how [/i] to ride the bus." He likely does understand the concept of riding a bus, folks, and has seen his peers do it plenty. Have you personally been at a middle school when the buses are loading and departing? The "just look at the card in the window and get on" posters probably have not. It's very fast and by the time he finds the bus, the bus is driving away.

Middle and high school buses, as one PP tried to point out, can be hugely crowded. It's possible that the boy in question would not be allowed to board that bus at school because he is not a regular assigned rider. Some school systems have bus lists and if the kid is not on that list, the kid is not going to board that bus, even if he says, "But I live on street X and that's your route." A driver might let him on or might say no, at least where we live. Middle schoolers where we are were sitting three to a seat and squatting in the aisles the first few days of school and it's better after route changes -- but not much better. There are no extra seats.

OP also did not say why the mom is "in a bind." If she's purely a flake that's one thing, but we don't know if she has to take another kid to the doctor suddenly, or something else came up that is a real problem. I'm glad OP and everyone posting here has never, ever had an emergency or bind that fell right at school pickup time. But if you did, you surely told your kid to jump on that bus -- or you had a perfect plan B, like people on DCUM always say they do, right?

If this is the first time ever the mom has asked this, OP of course does not have to say yes, but the judgment is just pitiful. Someday her kid may be the one needing a ride. Framing all this as "the kid doesn't know how to take the bus!" is just so thoughtless. OP, you really are judging the fact that the mom drives her kid to school rather than having him take the bus -- it's not about this one favor she asked, it's about the fact you think she's coddling him, right? [/quote]

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