It’s about half a mile for my middle schooler. We drive to the bus stop whenever it is raining hard. I’ve offered more lately because it’s completely black out and there are not sidewalks the entire way.

Anonymous wrote:It seems like such an odd thing to complain about a bus stop too far away from your house when the school radius for walkers is 1.5 miles. There are kids walking two-three times the distance than yours every day. Even elementary kids as young as yours. They'll be okay.

Except they have to catch the bus at 6:30 am and ride for an hour vs a walker who can go much later.

ES/MS/HS all two houses away.

For ES it was about 2 blocks. However, we asked to have it moved to our driveway because we live on an extremely busy road with no sidewalks and the "bus stop" was the corner of someone's yard at the intersection of two streets AND had large construction vehicles parked at the corner for multiple years. For most of ES, my child was the only kid in the neighborhood riding the bus so after realizing the unsafe nature of the stop for a small child they moved it to the top of our driveway.
For MS/HS the stop is about a mile away (again in a neighborhood with no sidewalks). The best part is that for HS it is actually faster for my kid to walk to school (the stop is a 15 minute walk from our house in the wrong direction where the HS is a 6 - 7 minute walk). The county says our neighborhood should take the bus because they have to cross a busy street to get to the school - but not a single kid in our neighborhood rides the bus - it would take 3-4 times longer than just walking.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My house is 0.9 and 1.5 miles away from the elementary school and the middle school, respectively. So my kids do not get a bus and walk/bike to school. I wish that more parents would allow their kids to walk to the bus stop (better for the environment and for their children).

I agree, but I think the issue is the start/end times make it difficult for parents to take a 2-mile walk twice a day and still get to work on time. And if you have young kids, you don’t want them to walk alone.

Not to mention the extremely heavy backpacks with mandated laptops. Not happening.

Anonymous wrote:My house is 0.9 and 1.5 miles away from the elementary school and the middle school, respectively. So my kids do not get a bus and walk/bike to school. I wish that more parents would allow their kids to walk to the bus stop (better for the environment and for their children).

I agree, but I think the issue is the start/end times make it difficult for parents to take a 2-mile walk twice a day and still get to work on time. And if you have young kids, you don’t want them to walk alone.

Just under half a mile for ES. But we attend a center school. I think we are technically walkable to the neighborhood school. We’re the furthest family from the bus stop, and everyone walks to it.

The kiss and ride situation at the school is a nightmare. There’s also a lot of kids who dismiss as walkers, but their parents have driven/parked in the neighborhood, which makes kiss and ride even more of a disaster.

It seems like such an odd thing to complain about a bus stop too far away from your house when the school radius for walkers is 1.5 miles. There are kids walking two-three times the distance than yours every day. Even elementary kids as young as yours. They'll be okay.

1/2 block for HS. We live within walking distance of the MS and ES.

Ours is 2 houses down the street for ES.

Anonymous wrote:My house is 0.9 and 1.5 miles away from the elementary school and the middle school, respectively. So my kids do not get a bus and walk/bike to school. I wish that more parents would allow their kids to walk to the bus stop (better for the environment and for their children).

MYOB

My house is 0.9 and 1.5 miles away from the elementary school and the middle school, respectively. So my kids do not get a bus and walk/bike to school. I wish that more parents would allow their kids to walk to the bus stop (better for the environment and for their children).

It is not unusual for kids to walk 6-7 blocks to school.

.5 mi is equivalent to 6 blocks. I think that is reasonable.

1 block away (neighborhood with sidewalks; bus stops along the main streets)

My kids bus stops are.5 and .7 miles from our house. It seems far, especially for my 6 year old. Most parents drive their kids to the bus stop.