Anonymous
Post 03/01/2016 15:42     Subject: What are your flex hours to get your kids on and off the bus?
Anonymous wrote:What hours do you work and what hours is school in session?


Drop off DC1 at 7:30 and I head to work; DC2 walks to bus stop at 8:00. I leave work at 3:30 PM then pick up DC2 at school at 4:15 and DC1 at 4:25.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2016 15:36     Subject: What are your flex hours to get your kids on and off the bus?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My kids get themselves to and from school unless there's some significant reason they can't take the bus. I work during school hours, but I am shocked to see parents pull up at school, get out of their car, walk to the back, and open the door for their kids. What happened in the last 20 years that kids old enough for elementary school are no longer capable of getting in and out of a car themselves?

I only pick up from school if the kids have to be somewhere directly afterwards and won't have time to come home first.


Why wouldn't I walk them? They are important. Should I just open the door and kick them out next time.?


Where are you walking them? You've pulled up at the curb. Can't your kid hop out and be on their way? YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE TO OPEN THE DOOR FOR YOUR CHILD. That's my whole point. Why are parents pulling up to school and then getting out of their car to open the door like they're a valet?


Well my old beater car won't open from the inside on one side. If my kid needs to exit from that side, she either needs to climb into the front (won't be possible that many more years), or I need to get out myself and open the back from the outside. One of these days I will get it fixed, but I keep forgetting. But it's not because I'm pampering her.


Okay. THAT is a good reason.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2016 15:34     Subject: What are your flex hours to get your kids on and off the bus?
Like not life
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2016 15:33     Subject: Re:What are your flex hours to get your kids on and off the bus?
Anonymous wrote:
Where are you walking them? You've pulled up at the curb. Can't your kid hop out and be on their way? YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE TO OPEN THE DOOR FOR YOUR CHILD. That's my whole point. Why are parents pulling up to school and then getting out of their car to open the door like they're a valet?


Start a new thread if you want to go off on this, it is not relevant to the OP's question.


We can talk about what we life, you don't get to dictate.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2016 15:32     Subject: What are your flex hours to get your kids on and off the bus?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My kids get themselves to and from school unless there's some significant reason they can't take the bus. I work during school hours, but I am shocked to see parents pull up at school, get out of their car, walk to the back, and open the door for their kids. What happened in the last 20 years that kids old enough for elementary school are no longer capable of getting in and out of a car themselves?

I only pick up from school if the kids have to be somewhere directly afterwards and won't have time to come home first.


Why wouldn't I walk them? They are important. Should I just open the door and kick them out next time.?


Where are you walking them? You've pulled up at the curb. Can't your kid hop out and be on their way? YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE TO OPEN THE DOOR FOR YOUR CHILD. That's my whole point. Why are parents pulling up to school and then getting out of their car to open the door like they're a valet?


Well my old beater car won't open from the inside on one side. If my kid needs to exit from that side, she either needs to climb into the front (won't be possible that many more years), or I need to get out myself and open the back from the outside. One of these days I will get it fixed, but I keep forgetting. But it's not because I'm pampering her.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2016 15:31     Subject: Re:What are your flex hours to get your kids on and off the bus?
Where are you walking them? You've pulled up at the curb. Can't your kid hop out and be on their way? YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE TO OPEN THE DOOR FOR YOUR CHILD. That's my whole point. Why are parents pulling up to school and then getting out of their car to open the door like they're a valet?


Start a new thread if you want to go off on this, it is not relevant to the OP's question.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2016 14:32     Subject: Re:What are your flex hours to get your kids on and off the bus?
We drop DC at beforecare around 7:30. I work part-time and am at dismissal in the afternoon. DC is an early riser so this schedule made more sense for us.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2016 14:29     Subject: What are your flex hours to get your kids on and off the bus?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My kids get themselves to and from school unless there's some significant reason they can't take the bus. I work during school hours, but I am shocked to see parents pull up at school, get out of their car, walk to the back, and open the door for their kids. What happened in the last 20 years that kids old enough for elementary school are no longer capable of getting in and out of a car themselves?

I only pick up from school if the kids have to be somewhere directly afterwards and won't have time to come home first.


Why wouldn't I walk them? They are important. Should I just open the door and kick them out next time.?


Where are you walking them? You've pulled up at the curb. Can't your kid hop out and be on their way? YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE TO OPEN THE DOOR FOR YOUR CHILD. That's my whole point. Why are parents pulling up to school and then getting out of their car to open the door like they're a valet?
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2016 13:41     Subject: What are your flex hours to get your kids on and off the bus?
Anonymous wrote:My kids get themselves to and from school unless there's some significant reason they can't take the bus. I work during school hours, but I am shocked to see parents pull up at school, get out of their car, walk to the back, and open the door for their kids. What happened in the last 20 years that kids old enough for elementary school are no longer capable of getting in and out of a car themselves?

I only pick up from school if the kids have to be somewhere directly afterwards and won't have time to come home first.


Why wouldn't I walk them? They are important. Should I just open the door and kick them out next time.?
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2016 13:36     Subject: What are your flex hours to get your kids on and off the bus?
Anonymous wrote:My kids get themselves to and from school unless there's some significant reason they can't take the bus. I work during school hours, but I am shocked to see parents pull up at school, get out of their car, walk to the back, and open the door for their kids. What happened in the last 20 years that kids old enough for elementary school are no longer capable of getting in and out of a car themselves?

I only pick up from school if the kids have to be somewhere directly afterwards and won't have time to come home first.


Ummm, maybe they want to give their child a hug or kiss and tell them to have a good day? not everyone wants to throw their kid at the school as quickly as possible and be on their way.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2016 13:34     Subject: What are your flex hours to get your kids on and off the bus?
My kids get themselves to and from school unless there's some significant reason they can't take the bus. I work during school hours, but I am shocked to see parents pull up at school, get out of their car, walk to the back, and open the door for their kids. What happened in the last 20 years that kids old enough for elementary school are no longer capable of getting in and out of a car themselves?

I only pick up from school if the kids have to be somewhere directly afterwards and won't have time to come home first.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2016 13:03     Subject: What are your flex hours to get your kids on and off the bus?
It's hard to do morning and afternoons on the bus. I get the kids on the bus at 8:55 am, then go to work and work until 6:30 pm. My dh works 8:30 am - 5:00 pm and picks up the kids from SACC around 5:35 pm. We just can't swing both ends because I would have to leave work at 3:30 pm, or dh would have to leave around 3:45 pm, and our work won't allow that.

My neighbor does morning SACC and meets the bus in the afternoon.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2016 09:02     Subject: Re:What are your flex hours to get your kids on and off the bus?
We can't swing the morning, as our kids' school doesn't start till 9.10am, but I work 6.45am to 3.15pm, while school dismisses at 3.55pm.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2016 08:26     Subject: Re:What are your flex hours to get your kids on and off the bus?
We choose not to do this because one of us would have gotten to work at 9:45 and the other would have had to leave work no later than 2:45. Would have totally ruined our schedules.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2016 08:24     Subject: What are your flex hours to get your kids on and off the bus?
What hours do you work and what hours is school in session?